Issue - meetings

The Chief Executive introduced the 2013/14 Year End Improvement Plan monitoring reports for the period 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014.  Members were asked to note the following:

• The levels of progress and confidence in the achievement of high level activities which seek to deliver the impacts of the Improvement Plan;
• The performance against improvement plan measures and the predicted level of performance for year end; and
• The current (net) risk levels and targeted risk levels for the risks identified in the Improvement Plan and the arrangements to control them

A summary of overall progress against the high level activities was as follows:

PROGRESS

·         Good progress (green) was being made in 55 (56%)

·         Satisfactory progress (amber) was being made in 41 (42%)

·         Limited progress (red) was being made in 2 (2%)

OUTCOME

·         There was a high (green) level of confidence in the achievement of 69 (70%)

·         There was a medium (amber) level of confidence in the achievement of 28 (29%)

·         There was a low (red) level of confidence in the achievement of 1 (1%)

Full details of the activities assessed as red, with an explanation of why that assessment was made, were contained in the report.  Also detailed in the report was the assessment of the strategic risks and the level to which they were being controlled.

The Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Environment expressed his disappointment in the non-achievement of 20mph advisory zones being placed outside schools, which he said was due to a delay in Welsh Government (WG) reviewing the compliance of the proposed signs with visual standards.

RESOLVED:

(a)       That Cabinet Members note the sufficiency of actions taken to manage delivery of the Improvement Priority impacts; and

(b)       That the following be noted:

·         The levels of progress and confidence in the achievement of key activities which seek to deliver the impacts of the Improvement Plan;

·         The levels of performance against improvement plan measures and the predicted level of performance for year end; and

·         The current (net) risk levels and targeted risk levels for the risks identified in the Improvement Plan and the arrangements to control them