A report by the Chief Executive set out proposals to ensure that the Council’s performance management processes would drive the delivery of the Council’s vision and values and also enable corporate governance improvements to be reflected in all areas of performance.  Key strands of this work included ensuring strong linkage of the Performance Management Framework with the Corporate Plan, the Strategic Change Programme and the work of the Corporate Governance Improvement Programme as a whole.

RESOLVED: That

(1)  the proposed Values and Behaviours, PERFORM, be reviewed in the context of the 2012/13 Corporate Plan and that the revised Vision and Values will clearly underpin the performance management framework;

(2)  the proposed performance improvement framework be reviewed to ensure that it fully reflects the revised values and behaviours and that Corporate Governance issues and improvements are embedded in the Corporate Planning process;

(3)  a programme of quarterly review and challenge of performance against Corporate and Departmental Plans be developed to ensure that progress in the achievement of outcomes is monitored and supported.  (An outline of key actions is detailed in Appendix1 to the report.); and

(4)  the proposed organisational development process be reviewed to ensure that it supports the delivery of the outcomes reflected in the hierarchy of plans – Corporate, Departmental, Service and individual.