Issue - meetings

To submit a report by the Head of Corporate Transformation.

It was RESOLVED to note the areas which the Senior Leadership Team is managing to secure improvements into the future as per section 1.3 of the report along with mitigation measures outlined.

The report of the Head of Corporate Transformation was presented in relation to Quarter 3 for the financial year 2016/17.

The Portfolio Holder for Executive Business, Performance Transformation,

Corporate Plan and Human Resources stated that the Corporate Scorecard shows that the performance indicators for the Council’s sickness levels have seen an improvement in Quarter 3. If the strong performance in Quarter 3 is sustained into Quarter 4, then it is likely that the target of 10 days per FTE will be achieved.  However he suggested that the Council should consider naming the underperforming departments with high sickness levels within the Scorecard following the local government elections in May.

Councillor R. Meirion Jones, Chair of the Corporate Scrutiny Committee reported on the discussions on the Corporate Scorecard Quarter 3 which undertook at the Corporate Scrutiny Committee held on 13 March, 2017. He noted that the Corporate Scrutiny Committee sought clarification as to the roles of Scrutiny and the Management Boards, as referred to within the Corporate Scorecard at 1.3.1 of the report, with regard to the monitoring performance and securing continuous improvement.

The Chair said that the role of the Management/Programme Boards are to monitor transformation projects and do not have a role to monitor performance of the services of the Council on a day to day basis. He agreed with the Portfolio Holder for Executive Business, Performance Transformation, Corporate Plan and Human Resources that any service which underperforms in two quarters in succession needs to be scrutinised by the Scrutiny Committee in detail.

It was RESOLVED to note the areas which the Senior Leadership Team is managing to secure improvements into the future as per section 1.3 of the report along with mitigation measures outlined.