Best Value Performance & Efficiency Sub-committee Of The Policy & Resources Committee - 30/01/2008

At a MEETING of the BEST VALUE PERFORMANCE AND EFFICIENCY SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE POLICY AND RESOURCES COMMITTEE held at Dundee on 30th January, 2008.

APPENDIX III

Present:-

BAILIES

COUNCILLORS

Councillor Kevin KEENAN, Convener, in the Chair.

Unless marked thus * all items stand delegated.

I STATUTORY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 2006/2007 - COMPARATIVE DATA

There was submitted Report No 6-2008 by the Head of Finance advising the Sub-Committee on the performance of Dundee City Council in relation to the other Scottish Authorities as defined by the Accounts Commission's recent publication of all Authorities' performance for the financial year 2006/2007, and further advising the Sub-Committee on the performance of Dundee City Council in relation to the other main Scottish cities.

The Sub-Committee noted that the Accounts Commission had recently published the Statutory Performance Indicators for all Scottish Councils on its website for the financial year 2006/2007. As last year, the Accounts Commission had issued no press releases on the data. This report analysed the published information for Dundee.

The Sub-Committee agreed to:-

(i) note the high overall improvement in performance as defined by the Accounts Commission's Improvement Rating for Dundee of + 13, the same as last year, the sixth best in Scotland;

(ii) note the improved performance of the Council in relation to other main city authorities which reported Improvement Ratings below that of Dundee;

(iii) encourage Officers to seek further improvements in performance as recommended by Best Value; and

(iv) ask Elected Members and Chief Officers to review the items in Appendix 2 to the report, particularly with regard to red colour coded items to assess if there was further scope for improvement. Items ranked just below 16th should also be closely considered to assess whether or not the overall performance level can be raised.

Kevin KEENAN, Convener.