To report performance to the end of July 2007 against the Annual Operating Plan 2007-08, national performance indicators used externally to measure the performance of the council, together with performance against revenue and capital budgets and corporate risks, and remedial action to address areas of under-performance. 

THAT

(i)                 performance for 2006-07 be noted; and

(ii)               the Best Value Performance Indicators for 2006-07 be approved for publication subject to any detailed textual amendments required.

The Council’s Corporate Plan, 2006-09, set out the Council’s objectives, priorities and targets for those three years.  The Annual Operating Plan (AOP) was the detailed action plan for the first of these years, 2006-07, and was updated for the purpose of these reports to include the indicators in the Local Area Agreement (LAA) and Herefordshire Community Strategy (HCS).

This report summarises the Council’s performance in the whole of the operating year 2006-07.

BVPI outturns and future targets will be published as an annex to an updated version of the Council’s Corporate Plan 2007-10.  The Council is required to publish performance information for 2006-07 by 30th June (extended to 2nd July this year to allow for the weekend).  There are still missing pieces of performance information from the BVPI outturns (Appendix B), some for legitimate reasons, relying on the closure of accounts or for information to be collated from external sources; others where outturn data is still being generated, highlighting problems with some of the Council’s current performance management processes.

None.