Agenda and minutes

County Councillor Williamson replaced County Councillor Driver at this meeting.

County Councillor Iddon took the Chair in County Councillor Driver's absence.

Members are asked to consider any Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Interests they may have to disclose to the meeting in relation to matters under consideration on the Agenda.

No pecuniary or non-pecuniary interests were disclosed.

Resolved: That the minutes of the meeting held on 19 February 2020 be confirmed and signed by the Chair.

Matters Arising

CC Crompton pointed out that he had requested updates on various issues at the September CCPI meeting. It was noted however that, due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, update reports were not able to be provided at this stage.

A report was presented by Donna Talbot – Head of Business Intelligence, on Quarter 4 2019/20 Performance Monitoring and Quarter 1 2020/21 Updates.

Appendix 'A' to the report set out Quarter 4 2019/20 monitoring, along with Quarter 1 2020/21 performance updates where available, against the indicators which had been agreed by Cabinet in February 2020.

In addition, summary documents detailing some of the major interventions and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across Public Health & Wellbeing, Adults and Children's services were set out at Appendix 'B'.

The Cabinet Committee noted the highlights of good performance, and those indicators performing below the desired level as detailed in the report.

Dave Carr - Head of Service, Policy, Information and Commissioning (Start Well), Tony Pounder – Director of Adult Services and Mike Kirby – Director of Strategy and Performance attended the meeting and provided details and updates on their respective service areas.

Specific areas were discussed as follows:

Safety carriageway defects – due to Covid, the usual maintenance programme had been suspended, with the exception of emergency works including some defects as staff had been deployed to other county council services to assist with their emergency plans. The service was now operating normally (within Covid safety guidelines) although the pandemic had affected performance against these targets in the first part of the quarter.

Street lighting fault repair – it was noted that new indicators were in place to separate those faults requiring traffic management arrangements and those not requiring traffic management arrangements, and that these indicators were now more in line with those for highways defects. Details were provided in the report of the most significant impacts of the pandemic on service delivery in this area. Due to the crews staggered working system and one crew tasked with helping to build the Warton BAE morgue facility, delays had been experienced in the LED replacement programme. CC Iddon wished to place on record his thanks to all the Highways Team for all their efforts during the pandemic.

Percentage of children and young people who received targeted early help support from Children and Families Wellbeing Service which successfully met their identified needs – the service had continued to support vulnerable families and had remodelled the service offer to deliver support through 'digital' and 'remote' platforms. Home visits, where necessary, continued to be made in high needs cases, subject to a prior risk assessment being carried out. CC Williamson wished to place on record her thanks to all the staff concerned for continuing to keep in touch with vulnerable families.

Percentage of Looked After Pupils and SEND pupils reaching the expected standard in Reading, Writing and Maths at KS2 and percentage of Looked After Pupils average Attainment 8 Score at KS4 – lots of work was currently ongoing in relation to educational attainment which linked into the overall model of school improvement. A Team Around the School approach including school partners, school improvement advisers and multi-agency partners were working with schools on this matter. In addition, locality  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.

An item of Urgent Business may only be considered under this heading where, by reason of special circumstances to be recorded in the minutes, the Chairman of the meeting is of the opinion that the item should be considered at the meeting as a matter of urgency.  Wherever possible, the Chief Executive should be given advance warning of any Members' intention to raise a matter under this heading.

There were no items of Urgent Business.

The next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Performance Improvement will be held at 2.00pm on Thursday 26^th November 2020.

The next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Performance Improvement would be held at 2.00pm on Thursday 26^th November 2020.