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BCP Council’s priorities and values which underpin the development and delivery of services are set out in the Corporate Strategy.

A new Corporate Strategy was approved by Cabinet in December 2023 and is expected to have been adopted by council before this paper is considered. New delivery plans and key performance measures will be considered by Cabinet in April 2024.

Until then, performance is assessed on the actions and measures detailed in the Corporate Strategy adopted by Full Council in November 2019 and delivery plans that were revised in February 2022.

The appended performance report shows progress with measures set out in the delivery plans and any additional measures agreed by Cabinet as part of the performance reporting process, for quarter two of 2023/24 (July to September 2023).

Individual exception reports provide explanations and planned actions to address under performance. The appended report also provides a further update on the delivery plan actions.

A new section on public health measures has been added so performance can be considered alongside BCP Council delivery areas. 

In addition, appendix 2 shows a progress update as of December 2023, on the Council’s response to being issued with a ‘Best Value Notice’ by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC) in August 2023.

RESOLVED that Cabinet: -

(a)           considered the Quarter Two performance report;

(b)           considered the delivery plan action updates;

(c)           considered the performance exception reports relating to areas of under performance;

(d)           noted the December 2023 progress update on the Council’s; response to being issued with a ‘Best Value Notice’

Voting: Unanimous

Portfolio Holder: Leader of the Council and Portfolio Holder for Dynamic Places

Reason

The Corporate Strategy sets out the objectives and outcomes that the Council’s performance will be judged against and as such is a vital component of the Council’s performance management framework. An understanding of performance against targets, goals and objectives helps us assess and manage service delivery and identify emerging business risks.

The Leader of the Council and Portfolio Holder for Dynamic Places presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'B' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

Cabinet was advised that the Corporate Strategy sets out the objectives and outcomes that the Council’s performance will be judged against and as such is a vital component of the Council’s performance management framework and presented an understanding of performance against targets, goals and objectives helps us assess and manage service delivery and identify emerging business risks.

In relation to this Cabinet was informed that BCP Council’s priorities and values which underpin the development and delivery of services are set out in the Corporate Strategy, and that a new Corporate Strategy was approved by Cabinet in December 2023 and is expected to have been adopted by council before this paper is considered.

In addition, Cabinet was advised that new delivery plans and key performance measures will be considered by Cabinet in April 2024, and that until then, performance is assessed on the actions and measures detailed in the Corporate Strategy adopted by Full Council in November 2019 and delivery plans that were revised in February 2022.

Cabinet was advised that the appended performance report showed progress with measures set out in the delivery plans and any additional measures agreed by Cabinet as part of the performance reporting process, for quarter two of 2023/24 (July to September 2023), and that individual exception reports provide explanations and planned actions to address under performance and the appended report also provides a further update on the delivery plan actions.

Cabinet was informed that a new section on public health measures has been added so performance can be considered alongside BCP Council delivery areas, and that in addition, appendix 2 shows a progress update as of December 2023, on the Council’s response to being issued with a ‘Best Value Notice’ by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC) in August 2023.

Cabinet was advised that this report had been presented to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee at their recent meeting and that a comprehensive discussion had taken place although no formal recommendations were proposed.

RESOLVED that Cabinet: -

(a)           considered the Quarter Two performance report;

(b)           considered the delivery plan action updates;

(c)           considered the performance exception reports relating to areas of under performance;

(d)           noted the December 2023 progress update on the Council’s; response to being issued with a ‘Best Value Notice’

Voting: Unanimous

Portfolio Holder: Leader of the Council and Portfolio Holder for Dynamic Places

Reason

The Corporate Strategy sets out the objectives and outcomes that the Council’s performance will be judged against and as such is a vital component of the Council’s performance management framework. An understanding of performance against targets, goals and objectives helps us assess and manage service delivery and identify emerging business risks.

BCP Council’s priorities and values which underpin the development and delivery of services are set out in the Corporate Strategy.

A new Corporate Strategy was approved by Cabinet in December 2023 and is expected to have been adopted by council before this paper is considered. New delivery plans and key performance measures will be considered by Cabinet in April 2024.

Until then, performance is assessed on the actions and measures detailed in the Corporate Strategy adopted by Full Council in November 2019 and delivery plans that were revised in February 2022.

The appended performance report shows progress with measures set out in the delivery plans and any additional measures agreed by Cabinet as part of the performance reporting process, for quarter two of 2023/24 (July to September 2023).

Individual exception reports provide explanations and planned actions to address under performance. The appended report also provides a further update on the delivery plan actions.

A new section on public health measures has been added so performance can be considered alongside BCP Council delivery areas. 

In addition, appendix 2 shows a progress update as of December 2023, on the Council’s response to being issued with a ‘Best Value Notice’ by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC) in August 2023.

The Leader of the Council and Portfolio Holder for Dynamic Places presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'A' to these minutes in the Minute Book. The Committee was advised that the Corporate Strategy set out the objectives and outcomes that the Council’s performance will be judged against and as such was a vital component of the Council’s performance management framework. An understanding of performance against targets, goals and objectives helped assess and manage service delivery and identify emerging business risks.

The Board was advised that a new Corporate Strategy was approved by Cabinet in December 2023 and had now been adopted, therefore new delivery plans and key performance measures would be considered by Cabinet in April 2024. Until then, performance would be assessed on the actions and measures detailed in the Corporate Strategy adopted by Full Council in November 2019 and the delivery plans that were revised in February 2022. The Board was informed that Individual exception reports provide explanations and planned actions to address under performance. 

In addition, the report included a progress update on the Council’s response to the ‘Best Value Notice’ issued by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC). The Board raised points on a number of issues including:

How the reporting has changed or been aligned to the DLUHC review

The continuation of existing indicators with the change of the Corporate Strategy

Whether the areas with exemption reports have sufficient resources to address these in light of the required budget reductions

Overall 55 percent of actions were on target which didn’t appear to be very high. Improved smart targets needed to be developed.

The Leader welcomed communications on any specific points which members wished to raise, particularly in relation to how targets could be both meaningful and able to be measured to track progress.

The situation regarding capital expenditure for Winter Gardens and the Bournemouth International Centre, whether these currently existed as a programme.

The outcome of the exception report on the delivery of BCP housing targets.

That the provision of some information was now quite out of date, and provided more of a template to use to consider different issues.

Inclusion within the new corporate plan of an indicator to measure carbon emissions. It was noted that there were delivery plans linked to the report and that this would be linked to the climate strategy, if appropriate this could also sit within the corporate performance report.

It was noted by the Chair and Leader of the Council that the paper would be useful in supporting deep dives and could be used by the board along with other measures to help create a work programme independently of the Cabinet schedule.