Meeting documents

The recommendation is that Cabinet:

1. Come to a view on how the organisation is performing

2. Take action to improve performance where necessary

Cabinet were asked to update on their portfolios performance against their Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).  The Leader asked that Cabinet Members updated only on those rated as red or amber.

Leader

• The Leader had no red or amber risks to report.

Community Engagement and Public Health

• The Deputy Cabinet Member for Community Engagement and Public Health reported on the eligible population invited to an NHS Health Check.  Health checks were at 75% against a target of 100%. Ms Teesdale stated that levels of uptake were a long running issue but the figures were higher than the national average.  Mrs Teesdale stated that the reporting was always a month behind so the figures would actually be higher.  Mr Tett stated that the issue would be discussed at the Health and Wellbeing Board.
• Mrs Teesdale highlighted the red rating for the % of successful alcohol treatment completions.  Mrs Teesdale stated that the new adult substance service started in October 2017, however, the recommissioning process started 10 months prior to this, so the whole of 17/18 data had been affected by the recommissioning.

Health and Wellbeing

• % of people reabled with an outcome of Independence was rated as red at 35% with a target score of 45%.  Mrs Mallen confirmed that they were working with the Bucks Health Care Trust to create a strength based approach.  Mrs Mallen also highlighted the event on the 18 September promoting change.

Children’s Services

• Repeat referrals within 12 months was a serious issue which had an impact on the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH).  The team were looking at this closely and reviewing how multi agency relationships work.  
• Red performance against % of Children Looked After (CLA) seen in the last 6 weeks.  This related to those children placed out of county, but they would have been seen by another professional within that time.
• Red performance relating to % of CLA living more than 20 miles from home.  Mr Whyte stated that there was heavy investment on Buck’s children’s homes and they were looking to add capacity, through recruitment and retention of foster carers.  However Mr Whyte also stated that some safeguarding requirements or specialist needs meant that some children would need to be placed outside of the 20miles target.
• Red performance relating to % of children waiting less than 14 months between entering care and moving in with their adoptive family.  Whilst this was a small cohort of children, this was significantly off target and was being monitored closely.

Education and Skills

• Amber performance against the current figures for educational and health care plan issued within 20 weeks.  It was stated that there had been a significant increase in performance, with a monthly increase at 60%.  It was anticipated that the figures would be in line with national comparatives by the end of the year.

Resources

• Although performing at green, the Cabinet Member highlighted the Capital spend at 96%.
• % of BCC Website pages that meet accessibility standards were reported at Amber.  The Cabinet Member stated that the government standard age to write to was 12 years old.  The website had gone from a 2 to 3 star rating and was only just below the national average.  Work was ongoing.
• Unsecured debt had come down significantly and Mr Chilver confirmed that debt was regularly reviewed.
• There was an overall Revenue variance across the council and measures were being put in place to address this, with all portfolios having been tasked with identifying where savings could be made.
• In relation to the amber rating for sick days reported, Mr Chilver confirmed that there was a Workplace Wellbeing programme being put in place.

Planning and Environment

• % of waste collected for recycling, reuse, composting or anaerobic digestion from household collection and HRCs Sources was reported as red, current performance at 55% with target set at 60%.  It was noted that this was due to the high aspirational targets set by colleagues to ensure that the County Council were constantly improving their recycling rates. 

Transportation

• There were a number of reds in the report relating to potholes.  This had been particularly bad due to the cold weather experienced last year.  Gritting runs had increased from 50 to 105 and there had been a 300% increase in defects.
• The red reported for the delivery of the footway programme was due to the fact that the roll out of the programme would not start until September through to February.
• A significant amount of money had been put into plane and patch programme that would continue to run until October.
• They were currently in the middle of the Capital programme which saw the resurfacing of entire roads.
• The Cabinet Member thanked crews for their work across the year.

RESOLVED: Cabinet NOTED the performance of the organisation.