Cyflwynwyd gan:Cyng / Cllr Dyfrig Siencyn
Decision:
To approve
the Gwynedd Council Performance Report 2016/17 with the changes noted by the
officers and to recommend its adoption by the Full Council.
Minutes:
RESOLVED
·
To
approve the Gwynedd Council Performance Report 2016/17 with the changes noted
by the officers and to recommend its adoption by the Full Council.
DISCUSSION
Submitted - the report which reported on the Council's performance for the
year gone by. It was noted that it was a
statutory requirement to submit an annual report. It was emphasised that the
report was usually submitted during October; however, following discussions, it
had been decided to move the date nearer to the end of the financial year. Consequently, it was noted that there were
minor typing errors and minor changes to be made to the statistics in the
Report.
Details were provided of the following required changes -
·
Report
o
Page 20 - Care - Final paragraph on the right side - the correct figure for
the rate of delay for 2016/17 was 4.91% not 4.44%. This change referred to the
4th measure on page 40 of the measures table.
o
Page 25 - Poverty, Deprivation, the Economy and Housing - third paragraph
on the right side - Council's Procurement expenditure in local businesses or
through sub-contracts was worth £59.8m.
o
Page 29 - First paragraph of the right side of the page - had succeeded to
reduce our carbon footprint by 30.1% since 2005 and had succeeded to deliver
accumulative savings of £3.67m.
·
Measures Table
o
Page 40 - Care - Number of adult service users
receiving direct payments - accurate figure is 121 - therefore, the trend was
increasing rather than reducing.
o
Page 44 - The Welsh language - the 2016/17 data in
relation to the first measure would be available at the beginning of July.
o
Page 44 - The Welsh language - second measure - Percentage of secondary
schools that have established a baseline of young people's social use of Welsh
Year 7 - the figure for 2016/17 was 100 and consequently the trend remained
static.
o
Page 42 - Poverty, Deprivations, Economy, Housing - second measure - there
were two different measures in relation to 'Percentage of Council spending with
local businesses'; therefore the information was as follows:
Percentage
of the Council's procurement expenditure that goes to companies with
headquarters or a branch in Gwynedd |
40.33 |
41.1 |
39.5 |
39.1 |
ê |
Percentage of the Council's
procurement expenditure that goes to companies with headquarters or a branch
in Gwynedd, who then spend locally through subcontracts |
- |
52 |
52 |
50 |
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The staff were thanked for their hard work in bringing the report together.
The report had been prepared based on the individual performance reports of
the Cabinet members. As the report was being published earlier this year, it
would not be possible to compare Gwynedd's performance against the rest of
Wales or the 'Family' of similar councils as no data would be available.
Observations from the discussion
·
Attention was drawn to the good work of the Care
department. It was emphasised that more work
would be done to develop services for the residents of Gwynedd. It was noted
that there was a need to emphasise the work taking place in the Care field in
order to improve the situation relating to hospital transfers.
·
Despite the fact that 74% noted that Gwynedd was a
good place to live, it was asked whether or not questions were being asked of
the 17% that was unhappy. It was
emphasised that they were asking questions and that the reasons varied; it was
noted that the reasons were being noted and fed back to the departments in
order to encourage ongoing improvement.
·
It
was noted that consultation with residents was now carried out more broadly and
that elements of the work was being done over the internet. It was expressed
that this provided more of a cross-section and greater samples. This enabled
the Council to create a sample of areas that noted the problems of specific
areas.
·
Reference was made to a number of encouraging
indicators in the education field and the department's staff were thanked, and
particularly the schools' staff were thanked for their hard work to improve the
quality of children's education.
·
It was noted that there was a risk that the report was
focussing excessively on the positive side of performance and did not refer
enough to the matters requiring attention. However, when attempting to look
within the measures for those matters, it appeared in general that there were
only few such considerations; which meant that the Council's performance was
generally encouraging and the report reflected that.
·
The
report was testament to the efforts of all Council staff members as they
attempted to maintain performance during a period where the council had to save
over £31m over the past 4 years alone - in addition to the £31m that had to be
identified in the previous eight years.
Awdur:Janet Roberts
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