Issue - meetings

The appendix to this report provides an overview of the council’s performance with respect to its ongoing annual plan actions from 2024-25, key performance indicators, corporate risks, committee risks, and annual governance statement actions.

The Committee received a report that provided an overview of the council’s performance with respect to its ongoing annual plan actions from 2024-25, key performance indicators, corporate risks, committee risks, and annual governance statement actions.

The following matters were considered:

a)      Temporary accommodation: A Member stated that the council were not really ‘treating’ the risk because nothing different was happening and the risk level was not changing. The Council continued to not make provision for affordable housing and the planning system was also not providing for it. The Member believed nothing was being achieved and asked if there was any progress at all being made in providing affordable housing. The Chair requested that further commentary on this be sought from the Housing Manager following the meeting.

b)                 Waste Strategy: In response to a query about how the waste service were going to handle the new Government directive of more items being recycled the Assistant Director for Corporate Services explained that there was to be detailed communication on this as well as staff training.  It was expected that there may be some confusion in the early stages of implementation. The Committee requested that the communication plan be communicated to all councillors.

c)      Tribunal Cases: Information on when the tribunal cases were expected to be concluded to be communicated to the Committee following the meeting.

d)     (F2) Failure to balance budgets: It was noted that this risk had not been updated. The Assistant Director for Corporate Services explained that this was a standard, generic risk that would always be a risk but that there was an improvement in that.  The Committee requested that this risk commentary be updated.

e)      (PCR 21) Leisure Centre Contract: In response to a Member query the Assistant Director for Corporate Services explained that this risk would be removed from the list as the contract had been signed.

f)        Annual Governance Statement Actions: A Member pointed out that under the annual governance statement the actions for Councillor training review and enhancement of the Council training and development programme was postponed.  However, this action was marked as completed which was not correct.  The Chair requested that the commentary provide further explanation that it was not completed but postponed.

Following consideration, it was resolved to:

(1)          Note and comment on the performance and risk information located at Appendix 1.