Venue: Sparkenhoe Committee Room, County Hall, Glenfield
Contact: Mr. M.I. Seedat (Tel: 0116 305 6037) Email: mseedat@leics.gov.uk
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Minutes: The minutes of the meeting held on |
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Question Time. Minutes: The Chief Executive reported that no questions had been
asked under Standing Order 35. |
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Questions asked by members under Standing Order 7(3) and 7(5). Minutes: The Chief Executive reported that no questions had been
received under Standing Order 7(3) and 7(5). |
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Urgent Items. Minutes: There were no urgent items. |
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Declarations of interest in respect of items on the agenda. Minutes: The following members declared personal non prejudicial interests in the
report on performance on LAA Targets as members of
District Councils:- Mr Galton, Mr Hart, Mr Shepherd, Mr Snartt and Mr Lewis. |
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Declarations of the Party Whip in accordance with Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rule 16. Minutes: There were no declarations made under Overview and Scrutiny
Procedure Rule 16. |
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Presentation of Petitions under Standing Order 36. Minutes: The Chief Executive reported that no petitions had been
received under Standing Order 36. |
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Combined Performance Report - Quarter 3. Additional documents:
Minutes: The Commission
considered a joint report of the Chief Executive and Director of Corporate
Resources concerning issues on both the revenue budget and key performance
indicators at the end of the third quarter where performance was below target.
A copy of the report, marked ‘B’, is filed with these minutes. The Commission was
advised as follows: (i) the underspends now reported did not include the financial
arrangements with the Primary Care Trust.
This would increase the underspend
to approximately £10 million. The
possible use of LAA grant to fund eligible mainstream
expenditure so as to avoid loss of resources due to limits on carry forward of LAA grant, would also increase the underspend; (ii) the approach to and reporting of performance management data
would be further developed in response to the new national performance regime
and Comprehensive Area Assessment. These
changes would also seek to ensure that assessment of performance included data
on user satisfaction of the service provided. (iii) that for a further period of one year the current LAA reward targets would be be
included in LAA2 and reported accordingly.
With regard to LAA2 discussions were on-going on the issue of reward
targets though initial indications were the reward levels would be lower and
applied to the whole of the LAA rather than specific
indicators. The Chairman
advised the Commission that as a result of a request from Mr Hart CC an officer
from the Adult Social Care and Health Service was in attendance to answer
questions on the under performance in increasing benefit take-up amongst older
people. In response to questions on this
issue the Commission was advised as follows: (i) The partners involved included the
Department of Works and Pensions, District Councils, Age Concern and the
Citizen Advice Bureaux. (ii) Part
of the under performance was due to issues around target setting as the target
figure did not include drop off rates, particularly in relation to Attendance
Allowance. (iii) The
Operations Group responsible for this area of activity was due to meet to agree
a detailed action plan which would include amongst other things:- ·
looking
at best practice elsewhere to learn lessons ·
project
management and operational capacity ·
new
promotional techniques to increase awareness of benefit entitlement ·
closer
working with the NHS particularly GPs and District
Nurses on raising awareness ·
targeting of
resources to particular communities or deprived areas. (iv) Leicestershire
Together and the Cabinet had agreed to invest an additional £100,000 to help
achieve this target as part of a review of all reward targets. The Chairman then
invited
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