Issue - meetings

To receive and consider the report of the Director (Policy and Governance).

Vicky Willett, Performance and Partnerships Manager, presented an update report on the progress of delivery for the service level projects outlined in the service business plans.

A review of 16 business plans produced last year had been completed. The plan identified an overall total of 133 projects and of those, 105 were ongoing (79%), 21 were complete (16%), 4 were closed (3%) and 3 had not started (2%).

It was anticipated that many of the ongoing projects would run over one year and therefore were not of major concern. Members were reassured that officers undertook regular quality assurance checks and were confident that most, if not all teams’ projects would be completed.

It was proposed that the approach for 19/20 would follow a similar format to previous years. All services had received a briefing from their Directors and teams would subsequently be identifying the key activities that they would deliver over the next 12 months. This year’s process would provide a greater focus on developing staff and team engagement, and skills analysis.

Members requested that going forward, the projects be broken down into directorates and a portfolio be brought to each relevant performance panel meeting. The Chair thanked officers for their work and Members for their attendance at the Performance Panel meetings throughout the year.

Decision – Members noted the report.