Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendation.

The Cabinet Member for Corporate Management presented the end of year position of progress against the Outcome Agreement for 2012/13. 

The Outcome Agreements were introduced by Welsh Government (WG) to identify how the Council worked towards improving outcomes for local people against the Government’s National priorities.  In addition, Outcome Agreements had to have a strong collaborative content and evidence of partnership working to have the greatest impact.

The Head of ICT and Customer Services added that the Outcome Agreement was a three year agreement based on ten strategic themes.

For 2011/12 and 2010/11, the Council received full payment of the grant (£1.48m).  Payment was based on a pro rata scoring system which measured achievement of the authority’s performance.  Full payment was made to scores of 25 and over and last year, the Council received a score of 25/30.  Full payment of the grant could only be achieved if collaborative action was demonstrated and was successful in at least nine of the ten outcomes.

The final year’s performance (2012/13) of the Outcome Agreement was complete and a self assessment of performance against the actions and measures had been undertaken and showed six fully successful themes, three partially successful themes and one unsuccessful theme.  Given that assessment, it was expected that the Council would achieve 25 points, the minimum required to receive the full grant of approximately £1.467m.

A new model to replace the current Outcome Agreement was being introduced by WG for 2013/14 and would be shaped during the next few months prior to Cabinet approval being sought in the autumn.

RESOLVED:

 That the progress made against the Outcome Agreement for 2012/13 be noted and a further report following the evaluation by Welsh Government be received.