Issue - meetings

Report of the Chief Executive

Note: The Scrutiny Co-ordination Committee considered this report at their meeting on 12^th July 2017 and a briefing note detailing their additional recommendations is appended to the report at page 49.

The Cabinet considered a report of the Chief Executive which indicated that the Council Plan is Coventry City Council’s corporate plan which sets out the Council’s strategic direction and priorities for the next ten years.

The current Plan, which was last reviewed in July, 2016, sets out the Council’s vision and priorities for the City. As part of this vision, the Council seeks to promote the growth of a sustainable economy; is committed to reform so that everybody, including the City’s most vulnerable residents, can share in the benefits of the City’s growth; underpinned by a Council that is enabling communities to solve local problems, at a time when the Council has to deliver its priorities with fewer resources.

The 2016/17 end of year performance report set out the progress made towards the Council Plan in April 2016 to March 2017. The reports uses indicators, contextual information and comparative information to describe and explain how the Council and the City’s performance compares to previous years and to other places.

The report also included data setting out the impact and progress made this year for groups with protected characteristics as set out in the Council’s equality objectives and towards the Council’s Marmot (health inequalities) agenda.

The Cabinet noted that the report had been considered by the Scrutiny Co-ordination Committee at their meeting on 12 July, 2017 and a Briefing Note setting out their recommendations had been circulated. The Committee had recommended that Cabinet considers the addition of indicators in the following areas for inclusion in the 2017/18 report:-

·  Health Indicators on Obesity, TB and Diabetes in the City

·  Housing Indicators on Social Housing, Homefinder performance, numbers of empty properties and the numbers brought back into use.

The Cabinet did not identify any further areas that they wished to address in further detail.

RESOLVED that the Cabinet:-

1.  Approves the inclusion of the Health and Housing Indicators in the 2017/18 report, as recommended by Scrutiny Co-ordination Committee and as outlined above.

2.  Approves the performance report

3.  Agrees to work with officers with a view to developing more streamlined and timely performance reporting arrangements

4.  Considers and notes the Council’s performance this year as set out in the performance report