MEMORANDUM
Date: 7 June 2007
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To:
All Members of the
Performance Cabinet Panel;
Senior Management Board; Geoff
Brown, Peter Stanley
From:
Ask for:
Ext:
County Secretary’s Department
Emma Lund
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PERFORMANCE CABINET PANEL
24 MAY 2007
MINUTES
ATTENDANCE
MEMBERS OF THE PANEL
C L Berry, K J Coleman, M Cowan, D Cullen, A D Dodd (substituting for R M
Roberts), S Drury, R I N Gordon (Executive Member, Performance and Resources),
D J Hewitt, I H Laidlaw-Dickson, D B Lloyd, A Oaten, S Quilty, A M R Searing
(Chairman), R H Smith, R A C Thake
Upon consideration of the agenda for the Performance Cabinet Panel meeting on
24 May 2007 as circulated, copy annexed, conclusions were reached and are
recorded below:
Note: No declarations of interest were made by any member of the Panel in
relation to the matters considered at this meeting.
PART 1
ACTION
1.
APOLOGIES
Apologies were received from Gary Cook for this meeting only.
2.
MINUTES
2.1
The minutes of the meeting held on 20 March 2007 were
confirmed as a correct record.
2.2
With regard to conclusion 3 of item 5 (‘Improvement Plan’),
Members had not yet received a list of service officers
responsible for each of the strategic areas in the Improvement
Plan: this is to be provided.
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3.
THE COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
(CPA) / JOINT AREA REVIEW (JAR)
[Officer Contacts:
John Harris, Director of Children, Schools
and Families and John Sellgren,
Communications Director
Tel: 01992 55570/555619
3.1
The Panel received an update from John Harris, Director of
CSF, and John Sellgren, Communications Director, on the
feedback arising from the Comprehensive Performance
Assessment (CPA) and Joint Area Review (JAR).
3.2
Members were advised that the CA and JAR fieldwork
concluded on Friday 18 May. The JAR team has provided
provisional judgements, and oral feedback has been provided by
the CA team. Draft reports will be produced on 20 June and the
County Council will have until 4 July to respond to matters of fact
within the report and the provisional inspection judgements. A
pre-publication version of the report will be issued in July prior to
final publication in October. JAR will feed into the Annual
Performance Assessment of Children’s Services to be published
at the end of October.
3.3
Conclusions
The Panel:
4.
1.
noted the feedback from the Comprehensive Performance
Assessment and the Joint Area Review and thanked John
Harris and John Sellgren for their informative reports;
2.
expressed appreciation to all those who had been involved
in preparing for the assessments;
3.
recommended that the forthcoming scrutiny of IRIS should
include a review of the use of the system by CSF.
THE TRANSITION FROM CPA TO CAA (COMPREHENSIVE
AREA ASSESSMENT)
[Officer Contact:
4.1
David Moses
Geoff Brown, Head of Performance
Improvement
Tel: 01992 555370]
Geoff Brown, Head of Performance Improvement, presented a
report which informed the Panel about the proposed process for
Comprehensive Area Assessment, which will replace the
Comprehensive Performance Assessment from March 2009.
The Panel was asked to agree an outline response to the Audit
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Commission’s consultations on: the proposed changes to single
tier and county council CPA for 2007; initial consultation on the
general approach to proposals for the transitional year 2008/09;
and principles for developing Comprehensive Area Assessment
within the new performance framework from April 2009.
4.2
Conclusion
The Panel noted the key features of the new CAA performance
framework and agreed the proposed responses to the Audit
Commission as outlined in the report.
5.
THE CORPORATE PLAN
[Officer Contact:
5.1
5.2
Geoff Brown
Geoff Brown, Head of Performance
Improvement
Tel: 01992 555370]
Geoff Brown, Head of Performance Improvement, provided an
oral report for Members on the expected process and timelines
for updating the Corporate Plan. He advised that the Plan will
be ‘refreshed’ with updated data, but that the framework of the
Plan will remain the same. Updates will need to be included for
the Improvement Plan, BVPI, and the Workforce Matters
statement. Member sign-off of the updated Plan will be required
and final ‘refreshed’ data will be presented to the Panel in July.
Geoff
Brown/Nicola
Hayden
Conclusions
The Panel noted the process for updating the Corporate Plan.
6.
CHALLENGES MONITOR
[Officer Contact:
Geoff Brown, Head of Performance
Improvement
Tel: 01992 555370]
6.1
Members received a report which provided an update on
progress against the measures in the challenges scorecard.
The report presented the challenges monitor data as at end
March 2007.
6.2
Conclusions
The Panel:
1. noted that performance against the indicators shows a
positive picture over all;
2. noted the increased number of visits to licensed premises
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to combat the illegal sale of alcohol to young people;
3. noted that the target of 40 visits for performance indicator
ref. CH033 (The number of licensed premises visited
during multi-agency operations, to combat the sale of
alcohol to young people) requires review.
7.
DATE OF NEXT MEETING
7.1
A meeting of the Performance and Resources Cabinet Panel will
take place on Tuesday 12 June at 2pm.
Geoff Brown
All to note
Andrew Laycock
County Secretary
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