Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member:  Policy Co-ordination

Forward Plan Ref: 2013/127

Contact: Maggie Scott, Head of Policy Tel: (01865) 816081

Report by Head of Policy (CA6).

This report and its Annexes provide Cabinet with a draft of the Corporate Plan for 2014/5-2017/18 (Annex 1) and the proposed Indicators of Corporate Performance for 2014/15 (Annex 2) in advance of consideration by Council.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

(a)              note the proposed Indicators of Corporate Performance, and;

(b)              approve the draft Corporate Plan before it is taken to Council on 01 April 2014.

Cabinet considered a draft of the Corporate Plan for 2014/5-2017/18 and the proposed Indicators of Corporate Performance for 2014/15 in advance of consideration by Council.

Councillor Brighouse, as Chairman of the Performance Scrutiny Committee commented that she had found the process for producing the Corporate Plan good. There had been an opportunity for it to be seen by Performance Scrutiny Committee and in other places and the labour Group as the opposition had received a briefing and had the opportunity to discuss it.

Councillor Tanner stated that he was glad to see the County Council had a Plan. He asked what the Council would be doing to ensure that as referred to in the Leader’s introduction we paid no more than our fair share of the burden of getting the national deficit down. He highlighted a number of areas of concern to him including lack of reference to revisions to the green belt  and unconvincing references to tackle delayed transfer of care and the payment to care workers of the living wage. He welcomed the inclusion of targets but stressed that they must be SMART which many were not.

The Leader noted that the Council had had a Corporate Plan for many years. And responded to the individual comments.

Councillor Louise Chapman in moving the recommendation stated that as far as possible the process had been inclusive and that the final Plan reflected the Council’s key priorities and the budget agreed by Council in February. She was grateful for the input from the Performance Scrutiny Committee and she took on board the comments from Councillor Tanner about deliverable targets. Maggie Scott added that the main points raised by the Performance Scrutiny Committee would be included in the final Plan.

RESOLVED:             to:

(a)               note the proposed Indicators of Corporate Performance, and;

(b)               approve the draft Corporate Plan before it is taken to Council on 01 April 2014.