Decision details

(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor Blamire)

Cabinet received a report from the Chief Executive to approve the draft Action Plan following the Local Government Association (LGA) Corporate Peer Challenge undertaken in June 2015.

The options, options analysis, including risk assessment and officer preferred option, were set out in the report as follows:

The options for Cabinet are

a) to agree an action plan and for officers to take it forward, or:

b) not to agree an action plan.

The aim of the Peer Challenge was to drive forward improvement, therefore if the issues raised by the final report are not addressed, the Council will miss an opportunity to tackle areas that can be improved in a targeted way. For this reason, the officer preferred option is a).

Councillor Blamire proposed, seconded by Councillor Hanson:-

“That the recommendation, as set out in the report, be approved.”

Councillors then voted:-

Resolved unanimously:

(1)          That the Action Plan developed to address the points raised by the LGA Peer Challenge be approved.

Officer responsible for effecting the decision:

Chief Executive

Reasons for making the decision:

The LGA Peer Challenge highlighted some areas for improvement and development and the Action Plan has been drawn up to tackle those areas.