Issue - meetings

This report asks the Executive Member to approve the Chief Executive’s Directorate Plan for 2008/2011. It outlines a set of key priorities for the Directorate and for each priority sets out a small number of key actions and performance indicators.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Leader be advised to approve the Chief Executive’s Directorate Plan.

Decision of the Executive Leader

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:            To provide strategic direction for the Directorate and for the use of service managers and teams.  Also to provide a reference for improving performance management within the Directorate.

Members received the Chief Executive’s Directorate Service Plan for 2008/2011, which gave an overview of the department and the challenges that it faced. The Plan outlined a set of priorities for the Directorate together with key actions and performance indicators.

Officers reminded Members that a number of the key actions, which had not been met, were part of the staff survey and that these were not carried out annually. In relation to health and safety and the key measures ‘Total number of accidents reported/Number of RIDDOR accidents’ marked as ‘No target set’ the target for 2008/09 would be maintained as ‘0’.

Members queried the “Risk Owners to be agreed” against the “Failure to implement Hungate 2010 project”.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Leader be advised to approve the Chief Executive’s Directorate Plan. ^1.

Decision of the Executive Leader

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:            To provide strategic direction for the Directorate and for the use of service managers and teams.  Also to provide a reference for improving performance management within the Directorate.