Issue - items at meetings - Corporate Strategy Delivery Plans

BCP Council’s high-level vision, priorities and ambitions were adopted by Council in January 2024.

The ‘A shared vision for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 2024-28’ is a corporate strategy which sets out the council’s vision, priorities and ambitions as well as the principles which underpin the way the council will work as it develops and delivers its services.

A delivery plan has been incorporated into the strategy, prepared in consultation with Cabinet, directors and council officers, to provide focus areas and measures of progress for achieving the vision, priorities and ambitions. Performance will be monitored and reported in a new dashboard.

This strategy is a key component of a whole council approach to performance management.

RESOLVED that Cabinet: -

(a) Approve the delivery plan

(b) Agree the measures for monitoring progress and ensuring accountability for delivery

(c) Agree to establishing new governance arrangements for reporting and tracking progress.

Voting: Unanimous

Portfolio Holder: Dynamic Places

Reason

A corporate strategy is vital for identifying and gaining visibility of the council’s key priorities. These represent the objectives and outcomes that the council’s performance will be judged against.

The strategy’s objectives are the beginning of a golden thread that links personal, team and service performance to the things that matter most to the organisation and as such will be a vital component of the council’s performance management framework.

The strategy will influence the allocation and distribution of resources ensuring that the organisation commits its limited resources in accordance with its stated priorities.

The Deputy Leader of the Council and Portfolio Holder for Connected Communities 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 BCP Council’s high-level vision, priorities and ambitions were adopted by Council in January 2024, and that ‘A shared vision for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 2024-28’ is a corporate strategy which sets out the council’s vision, priorities and ambitions as well as the principles which underpin the way the council will work as it develops and delivers its services.

In relation to this Cabinet was informed that a delivery plan had been incorporated into the strategy, prepared in consultation with Cabinet, directors and council officers, to provide focus areas and measures of progress for achieving the vision, priorities and ambitions, and that performance will be monitored and reported in a new dashboard.

Cabinet was advised that this strategy was a key component of a whole council approach to performance management.

In presenting the report the Portfolio Holder advised that the updated Appendix 1 which had been published as a supplementary pack picked up the amendments which had been raised at the recent Overview and Scrutiny Board where the report had been discussed.

Comprehensive discussion took place on the item with Cabinet highlighting the importance of delivering this.