Issue - meetings

Report byDr Carlton Brand, CorporateDirector

Councillor Philip Whitehead presented the report which provided an update on performance against the stated aims in the council’s new Business Plan 2017-27. The information provided includes key measures as well as the council’s strategic risk register.

Matters highlighted in the course of the presentation and discussion included: the recent changes to the format of the report; that further work can be done to allow for trends to be analysed; and the local issues that impact on performance such as road maintenance.

In response to a question from Councillor Gavin Grant, Councillor Laura Mayes stated that whilst the powers available to the local authority to address performance in schools was more limited than in previous years, the council was developing a more proactive relationship with academy schools and the regional schools commissioner.

Resolved

To note updates and outturns: against the measures and activities ascribed against the council’s priorities; and to the strategic risk register.

Reasons for Decision:

The current corporate performance framework compiles measures used to monitor progress in service areas against planned objectives that relate to the goals laid out in Wiltshire Council’s current Business Plan 2017-27.

The strategic risk register captures and monitors significant risks facing the council: in relation to significant in-service risks facing individual areas, in managing its business across the authority generally and in assuring our preparedness should a national risk event occur.