Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Corporate Directors for People and Place

The report provides a detailed overview of performance which relates to the Health Scrutiny Committee.

The information is provided in the form of the Quarter 3 2011/12 Portfolio Performance and Resources Reports for the Adults and Health, Children & Young People and Leisure Portfolios.

The Scrutiny Committee is recommended to:-

(1)  Review the current levels of performance;

(2) Highlight key areas of, and responsibility for, taking forward corrective action to address any existing or forecast performance issues;

(3) Identify how areas of strong performance and good practice can be shared in other services.

Officer contact: Jonathan Vali, 0161 474 3201, jonathan.vali@stockport.gov.uk

The Executive Councillors (Adults and Health) and a representative of the Corporate Director for People submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) providing a detailed overview of performance issues which were of interest to the Health Scrutiny Committee. The report invited the Committee to consider current levels of performance, to identify any key areas where corrective action needed to be taken and to identify areas of strong performance and good practice which could be shared with other service areas.

The following comments were made/ issues raised:-

·         The support offered by the Council to those people who have personalised budgets.

·         The problems associated with targeting and providing support to those people with unrecorded accommodation status.

·         Refurbishment at Graylaw House was now complete and the new hub was now open.

·         The detail contained within the report was excellent and future reports should focus even more specifically on Health related issues.

·         It would be useful to have statistics at a ward level of those people with personalised budgets.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.

To consider a joint report of the Executive Councillors (Customer Focus) and (Finance)

The report summarises the Portfolio Performance and Resource Reports (PPRRs) approved by individual Executive Councillors and Corporate Directors. It provides a further update from the mid-year report (presented at Executive on 7th November 2011) in delivering the Council’s priorities, revenue budget and capital programme for 2011/12, and highlights progress on implementing key strategic projects and managing corporate risks.

Individual Portfolio Reports will be considered by Scrutiny Committees from early March, and are published as background papers alongside this report. 

These can be accessed at http://democracy.stockport.gov.uk/mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=8566

The Executive is asked to;

·         Review progress against delivering Council Plan priorities, portfolio outcomes and capital schemes alongside budget forecasts contained within the report.

·         Approve the virements to the Revenue Budget set out in paragraph 3.2.3 of the report.

·         Agree the approach to managing revenue surpluses and deficits, and proposed contributions to and from General Fund and HRA earmarked reserves as set out in paragraph 3.9.3 of the report, including the transfer of £0.352m to general fund balances in order to meet the recommended minimum balances requirement for 2012/13

·         Approve changes to the Capital Programme as set out in paragraph 4.3.4 of the report.

·         Approve the resourcing of the Capital Programme as set out in paragraph 4.5 of the report.

·         Identify key areas for further investigation and responsibility for taking forward corrective action to address any existing or forecast issues or risks

Officer Contact: Andrea Stewart/ Christine Buxton, 0161 474 3243/ 4124, andrea.j.stewart@stockport.gov.uk / Christine. buxton@stockport.gov.uk

The Executive Councillors (Customer Focus) and (Finance) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Executive Meeting to consider the third quarter position in delivering the Council’s priorities, revenue budget and capital programme for 2011/12, and highlighting progress on implementing key strategic projects and managing corporate risks.

The Council remained on track to deliver over £16m of savings by the end of March 2012 with the overall forecast outturn for cash and non-cash limits indicating a surplus of £4.796m. By the end of third quarter £37.7m (55%) of the Capital Programme had been spent.

Executive Councillors highlighted key performance and resource issues within their portfolio responsibilities.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted and approval be given to:

(i)        the virements to the Revenue Budget set out in paragraph 3.2.3 of the report;

(ii)       the approach to managing revenue surpluses and deficits, and proposed contributions to and from General Fund and HRA earmarked reserves as set out in paragraph 3.9.3 of the report, including the transfer of £0.352m to general fund balances in order to meet the recommended minimum balances requirement for 2012/13;

(iii)      the changes to the Capital Programme as set out in paragraph 4.3.4 of the report, and

(iv)      the resourcing of the Capital Programme as set out in paragraph 4.5 of the report.