To report progress against the Comprehensive Area Assessment Preparation Programme.

THAT

i.                    progress made in delivering the Comprehensive Area Assessment Preparation Programme over the first 6 months of 2008 be noted; and

ii.                  Cabinet agrees the need for effective remedial action for the items marked Amber, which are listed in paragraph 3.

The Council’s current Corporate Plan sets out the Council’s objectives, priorities and targets for the three years 2007-10.  The Annual Operating Plan (AOP) is the detailed action plan for the first of these years, 2007-08; it includes all the indicators in the Local Public Service Agreement (LPSA), the Local Area Agreement (LAA) and the Herefordshire Community Strategy (HCS), as well as the Council’s own indicators.

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