Issue - meetings
Corporate Performance - Q3 2020/21 Performance
Meeting: 06/04/2021 - Cabinet (Item 10)
10 Corporate Performance - Q3 2020/21 Performance PDF 330 KB
This report provides a corporate overview of performance information in the third quarter of 2020/21 linked to the Borough Plan priorities.
Additional documents:
Decision:
Cabinet RESOLVED:
(1) To note the performance information contained in the report.
(2) To note the challenge process along with current and future strategic risks associated with the information provided and approve actions being undertaken on strategic risks, as appropriate.
(3) To note the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the organisation. During Quarter 3 the Council continued to work intensively to respond to Covid-19. Members recognised, however, the impact of the pandemic on all services throughout the organisation, including on a number of performance indicators across priority areas with 34% currently rated red compared with 24% at the same point last year.
Minutes:
Councillor McLennan, as Deputy Leader and Lead Member for Resources, introduced a report providing a corporate overview of performance in Quarter 3 (October 2020 – December 2020) of 2020-21, linked to the Borough Plan priorities.
In presenting the report, Councillor McLennan highlighted the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on all services across the organisation as the Council continued to focus on delivery of the response and subsequent effect this had had on a number performance indicators across priority areas. Whilst this had resulted in 34% of indicators being rated as red compared to 24% at the same point in 2019-20 Cabinet also noted the focus of Lead Members, working jointly with their relevant Strategic Directors, in seeking to mitigate and address performance in these areas as the Council moved forward from the pandemic. Members also noted that the Quarter 4 corporate performance update (scheduled for June 2021) would expand further on the impact of the pandemic by providing a comparison of 2020-21 performance against the targets set for the current year as well as against those in 2019-20. The report would also include data on annual measures as well as highlighting, where possible, how Brent had performed in comparison to other London authorities and benchmarking data.
In responding to the update Councillor Mili Patel, Lead Member for Children’s Safeguarding, Early Help and Social Care, highlighted the specific impact of the pandemic in relation to performance targets across Children & Young People along with the action being taken to mitigate these. Whilst action was ongoing to address the impact on performance, Cabinet also noted the positive progress that it had still been possible to make in relation to performance on Looked After Children placements, as detailed in section 3.6 of the report, and the ongoing programme of early intervention being led through the Black Caribbean Achievement Champions in terms of attainment for boys of Black Caribbean heritage, as detailed in section 3.8 of the report.
Moving forward, Councillor M.Butt, as Leader of the Council, highlighted the importance of the Council continuing to focus its attention in supporting local residents through the pandemic alongside the work being undertaken to bring performance back on track, on which a more detailed outline would be provided as part of the Quarter 4 update.
Having considered the update provided, it was RESOLVED that Cabinet:
(1) Note the performance information contained in the report.
(2) Note the challenge process along with current and future strategic risks associated with the information provided and approve actions being undertaken on strategic risks, as appropriate.
(3) Note the impact of the pandemic on performance against targets across the organisation as the Council had continued to work intensively to respond to Covid-19.