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Contact: Scrutiny Officer 01792 636292
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Disclosure of Personal and Prejudicial Interests Minutes: There were no disclosures of Personal and
Prejudicial Interests. |
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Prohibition of Whipped Votes and Declaration of Party Whips Minutes: None. |
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To receive the minutes of the previous meeting(s) and agree as an accurate record. Minutes: Minutes of the previous meeting were agreed. |
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Public Questions Questions can be submitted in writing to
Scrutiny scrutiny@swansea.gov.uk up until noon on the working day prior to the meeting.
Written questions take precedence. Public may attend and ask questions in person
if time allows. Questions must relate to items on the open part of the agenda
and will be dealt with in a 10 minute period. Minutes: There were no public questions received. |
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Annual Review of Wellbeing Objectives and Corporate Plan PDF 164 KB Invited to attend: Cllr Rob Stewart - Cabinet Member for Economy, Finance and Strategy Cllr Andrea Lewis – Cabinet Member for Service
Transformation Richard Rowlands – Strategic Delivery & Performance Manager Additional documents:
Minutes: Cllrs Rob Stewart and Andrea Lewis attended. The following
was discussed. ·
The new corporate plan was brought to Council on
30 March 2023. ·
Consultation survey responses were low however
this is not necessarily reflective of the whole consultation approach that was
taken. ·
The corporate plan is a high level lengthy
document with certain legal requirements however work undertaken within
available resources to produce different versions of the plan through different
mediums for a variety of audiences is the likely solution. ·
There is list of potential measures for
monitoring the plans progress. Data provided needs to be reportable, robust,
consistent and collectible. Officers are aiming to bring the list of potential
measures and any data already gathered to scrutiny in the Quarter 1 2023/24
Performance Monitoring Report. ·
Previously Welsh Government provided a national
framework of public accountability measures which were useful and allowed for
benchmarking across Wales, however these measures are no longer in use,
officers have raised this with Audit Wales to feedback to Welsh Government. ·
The corporate plan will be renewed annually. |
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Q3 2022/23 Performance Monitoring Report PDF 171 KB Invited to attend: Cllr David Hopkins - Cabinet Member for Corporate Services &
Performance Richard Rowlands – Strategic Delivery &
Performance Manager Additional documents: Minutes: Cllr Stewart and relevant officers reported on this item, the
following was reported: ·
From 27 key performance indicators, 19 have
improved or maintained, 1 has a decline within 5% and 7 show a decline of more
than 5%. ·
6 new safeguarding indicators have been
introduced based on the National Social Services Performance Framework. ·
The number of young people supported by the
early help hubs had declined and this was in part due to the recent changes to
the way information is recoded on the IT system. ·
Any changes to the Climate Change and Nature
performance indicators are due to be introduced in the Quarter 1 2023/24
Performance Monitoring Report. The Strategic Delivery & Performance Manager
noted that developing reliable indicators for this particular well-being
objective was proving one of the most challenging. Any further information on
these indicators will be brought back to the Panel in Q1. ·
Tackling poverty indicators show a decline in
the speed of processing housing benefit and council tax reductions. Measures
are in place to improve this including training new staff. ·
Praise was given to the welfare rights team for
the amount of benefits secured through their work. ·
The Panel noted the lack of performance data on
the Highways team, therefore would like more information on this at a future
meeting explaining the process and criteria of road repairs. Highways were
previously part of the Welsh Governments national measures before these were
removed. ·
The introduction of the 48 hour pot hole pledge is under consideration for modification to allow
time for more permanent fixtures. The patch repair programme is also under
review. ·
An additional £5m has been earmarked for road repairs
with an additional £500k being brought forward from the 2024/25 budget. No
additional money for roads has been received from Welsh or National Government.
Swansea Council has lobbied regarding this. |
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Additional documents: |
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Minutes: The Panel noted the work plan. |
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Letter to Cabinet Member - Corporate Services and Performance PDF 329 KB |
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Letter to Cabinet Members - Economy, Finance and Strategy and Service Transformation |