Decision details

(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor Phillip Black)

Cabinet received a report from the Chief Executive to request that Cabinet formally accepts the feedback in the LGA Corporate Peer Challenge report for the final report to be published by the deadline of 18th July 2024.

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

The recommended option is to accept the report findings and recommendations, so that the report can be published and for the Chief Executive to develop an action plan to act on the recommendations (Option 1). The report must be published by 18th July 2024, and the action plan by 4th September 2024.

The meeting adjourned at 6.22pm whilst a disturbance in the public gallery was resolved.  The meeting reconvened at 6.26pm.

During the debate it was noted that the LGA Executive Summary referred to ‘the former seaside resort of Morecambe’ and it was agreed to formally minute that Cabinet would like to see the word ‘former’ removed before the report was made publicly available.

Councillor Phillip Black proposed, seconded by Councillor Dowding:-

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

Councillors then voted:-

Resolved unanimously:

(1) That Cabinet formally acknowledges the work undertaken by the peer team and accepts the feedback in the Corporate Peer Challenge (CPC) report.

(2) That responsibility for the development of an action plan to meet the CPC recommendations be delegated to the Chief Executive.

Officer responsible for effecting the decision:

Chief Executive

Reasons for making the decision:

The CPC feedback report provides a number of recommendations that align with the strategic principles of the Council Plan 2024-2027. The development of an action plan for the recommendations will consider the scope of actions in consideration of the strategic and financial decision-making already set out in the Council Plan 2024-2027.

Cabinet acceptance of the findings and recommendations in the CPC report will result in the report being published and a new action plan to be developed to act on the recommendations for organisational developments. Alongside this a comms and engagement plan will ensure that staff, members and partners are briefed on the excellent findings of this review.