APPENDIX 7

 

Directorate:          CORPORATE SERVICES

Service Area:       SELECT COMMITTEE AND BEST VALUE REVIEW

Produced by:        ALISTAIR DRAIN

 

5.       TOP PRIORITIES FOR THE ANNUAL ACTION STATEMENT 2005/06

 

Task

Target/Success Factors

Maintain an independent Select Committee and Review Team resource.

Independent challenge.

 

Facilitate the corporate change and improvement agenda through Review Team projects.

Improved PI’s and BVPI’s in Priority Improvement Areas.

More effective Select Committee meetings (less formal meetings and more focused meetings).

More recommendations accepted and undertaken by the Executive.

Closer working between Co-ordinating Committee and the Executive.

Improved corporate governance.

 

Better review of existing policies.

Policy recommendations accepted and implemented by the Executive

 

 

7.       HOW WILL YOUR SERVICE CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS ACHIEVEMENT OF THE FOLLOWING CORPORATE PRIORITIES IN 2005/06?

 

a)         E Government :

 

·                     Continue to deliver and expand and Edelivery of the democratic process.

·                     Undertake strategic reviews that will help deliver the Council’s corporate E targets.

·                     Reduce printing budget by 10% each year.

 

b)         Diversity :

 

·                     Actively support and encourage female staff to participate in the Women into Management initiative.

·                     Diversity addressed in all relevant reviews.

 

c)         People Management :

 

·                     Succession Planning for organisational structure

·                     Support for corporate mentoring scheme

·                     People Management addressed in all relevant reviews.

 

 

10.     BUDGET BIDS FOR 2005/06

 

a)      Revenue Bids

 

Reference Number

Description – max 20 words

Financial Implications

 

 

2005/6

£000

2006/7

£000

20078

£000

1

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

3

 

 

 

 

4

 

 

 

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

11      RISK MANAGEMENT – DESCRIBE ALL SIGNIFICANT RISKS RELATING TO YOUR SERVICE AND HOW YOU INTEND TO MANAGE THEM

 

Ref

Description of Risk

Risk Score

Corporate or Service

1

Reduction of Review Team through retirement of 2 staff. Fewer reviews will be undertaken, planned reviews may take longer to complete, leading to a delay in achieving some of the review objectives/service improvements. To be managed by prioritizing areas to be reviewed in consultation with Members and developing SCS staff to carry out more review work.

Amber (6)

Both

2

Induction of New Members