To update Cabinet on progress against the data quality action plan as required by the Council’s data quality policy.

Cabinet considered a report which updated Members on progress against the data quality action plan as required by the Council’s data quality policy.

The Cabinet Member for Corporate and Customer Services and Human Resources presented the report and emphasised the need for the plan to be fully completed by the time of the annual review. She referred to her concern regarding risk management and failure to take adequate action to ensure high data quality and that where services do not keep to the appropriate timescales that they should be itemised and not generalised in reports to Cabinet.

The Head of Policy and Performance reported that the report before Cabinet showed that progress was being made. This had been confirmed by the preliminary findings from the Audit Commission’s 2008 audit. However the targets for the first six months were ambitious and not all of them had been met. More effort was required by all Directorates in the next six months particularly on the actions detailed in paragraph five of the report.

REOLVED:     That

(i)                 progress against the data quality action plan be noted; and

(ii)        the plan be fully completed by the time of the annual review.

The Leader informed Cabinet that he would be taking the Budget Monitoring report after the next item.