Decision Maker:

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: March 17, 2025

Purpose:

Content: 8.1 The Committee considered a report of the Director of Finance and Commercial Services presented by the Head of Performance and Insight. The report was the third Outcomes Framework report to the Finance and Performance Policy Committee and included current, historic and comparator data for the Council Plan Outcome measures,     8.2 RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY: That the Finance and Performance Policy Committee –   a)    Note the Council Plan Outcomes Framework Q3 Report that evidences our improvements and show distance travelled against each Council plan priority. b)    Agree to continue to receive quarterly reports that provide an overview of performance against the Outcome measures, describing performance strengths, challenges, interventions taken, and the results of changes made. c)    Consider, and ask all other policy committees to consider, if issues raised in this performance report should have further scrutiny through the scheduling of time on the appropriate committee work programme d)    Agree to integrate the Equality Framework action and measure progress into the Outcomes Framework and quarterly reporting cycle to the Finance and Performance Committee from Q1 2025/26         8.3 Reasons for Decision     8.3.1 The Outcomes Framework underpins how we measure progress and monitor impact of the Council Plan. It is aligned to our four-year Medium Term Financial Strategy and the outcomes will increasingly become the focus for our budget, Directorate and Service Plans.     8.3.2 Council Plan Outcomes Framework performance provides measurable evidence of distance travelled against the Council Plan as part of a systematic process of robust corporate performance reporting.     8.3.3 To ensure that Finance & Performance Policy Committee contributes to the performance management process and drives improvement across the organisation.     8.4 Alternatives Considered and Rejected     8.4.1 Previous decisions made require officers to proceed with implementing the full performance framework to underpin how we measure progress and monitor impact of the Council Plan. It is aligned to our four-year Medium Term Financial Strategy and the outcomes will increasingly become enabling elements for our priority-based budget plans, Directorate and Service going forwards and set a key deliverable for the Council.     8.4.2 Beyond some nuance of how we implement some details of the framework, the measures, performance system and reporting cycles are agreed, removing the alternative options available for implementation of the framework.