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The actions to be carried out by the Council in 2006/07 in response to audit and inspection will focus on getting in place
the essential mechanisms for setting clear, quantified priorities; integrating financial and policy planning; and improving
performance management in order to achieve our priorities and consistently improving services.
Key actions will be:
Clear Corporate Priorities:
- Revise the Community Strategy and achieve greater integration with the Council’s priorities from 2007/08.
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Achieve greater consistency of format of Council strategies, better links with our priorities and the resources available
and more focus on actions.
Quantified Targets and programmes to achieve priorities:
- Establish an officer forward planning group to advise on priorities and specific and costed programmes to deliver them.
Resource Strategies to finance the priorities:
- Develop the Medium Term Financial Strategy and Workforce Plan to demonstrate how resources will be made available to achieve
costed programmes to deliver priorities.
- Integrate financial and performance planning in the annual budget process.
Improve Performance Management to deliver the priorities:
- Clarify accountabilities and develop capacity for performance management in the first and second tiers.
- Revise the Council’s performance management framework allocating clear roles and responsibilities.
- Agree a specification for and procure a replacement for PIMMS based on the performance management framework.
- Integrate financial and performance quarterly reporting.
- Improve quarterly reporting, by making recommendations to address under-performing PIs and recognising well performing services.
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