Purpose

To present and seek approval of
the Positioning Statement for the Corporate Peer Challenge to support the LGA
peer team to provide feedback.

 

As part of the Council’s
commitment to continuous improvement and to meet its Best Value Duty, Fareham
Borough Council is participating in the Local Government Association’s (LGA)
Corporate Peer Challenge.

 

The aim of the challenge is to
provide assurance, share good practice with the wider sector, as well as
receive valuable challenge and advice to support improved service
provision.  The peer team will be made up
of a lead Councillor and senior officers from other local authorities around
the country.

 

Preceding an on-site visit by the
peer team to make their own assessments, the Council will be providing a data
pack and positioning statement with relevant information including requests for
guidance on specific topics.

 

If approved, the positioning
statement will be submitted to the LGA peer team to review before the on-site
visit.

Decision

RESOLVED that the Executive:

 

(a)  notes
the progress on the Corporate Peer Challenge; and

 

(b)  approves
the contents of the Positioning Statement to be submitted to the peer team of
the LGA.