ITEM CG10
Target
Setting: 12 month on Evaluation
Key points
arising during Corporate Governance Scrutiny Committee’s debate on 27 July
2006:
The progress
to date was encouraging. Most actions from the recommendations were in motion,
or were to be implemented in the future.
Disappointment
was expressed at the blocks to the recommendations contained within the Review
by the implementation of the balanced scorecard.
Targets were
now realistic and achievable. With timescales of 1-2 years circumstances changed
and because of this targets needed to be achievable and within a realistic
timescale. The changing environment around the targets and workplace should not
be an excuse for not achieving certain targets. Targets for Key Stage 3 were largely out of the Council’s hands and
dictated by Central Government - the system was now driven by the
Organisational Development Programme, which meant that
there was a simplification of planning systems and also the introduction of a
balanced scorecard. This in turn drove through the message of deliverability
& accountability.
Elements of
culture change were key to progress – for example with
the Oxfordshire Wide Information System (OWIS), preliminary ICT projects had to
be completed before this could begin to be implemented.
There was a
suggestion that target sheets should include reference to non-bureaucratic
processes and explain in plain English what improvements had occurred within
the service.
The Council’s
primary aim was to ensure that everything done contributed to an improvement to
services in Oxfordshire as a whole.
The Committee
expressed general contentment with the paper and the progress made to date with
regard to target setting.
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