The Scrutiny Committee has a role in monitoring Council performance. Quarterly reports are provided on a set of selected corporate and service performance indicators.This item provides an opportunity for the Committee to comment on the report and make such recommendations to the Cabinet as it wishes. This report will be presented by Helen Bishop, Head of Business Improvement.

Councillor James Fry had commented on the report and his comments, together with the Scrutiny Officer’s response to them had been published with the Committee’s papers. The committee accepted the recommendations given in the later paper.   Helen Bishop, Head of Business Improvement, had met Councillor Fry to discuss the Committee’s role in relation to performance monitoring as a result of which there would be a review of the way in which these indicators were presented.

The Committee agreed to make the following recommendation to Cabinet:

That from the next civic year Council adopts performance measures for the following:

a)    The proportion of total FTEs within the Council that are filled, and are vacant, preferably by service area

b)    Short and long term staff absences