Agenda and minutes

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Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

Temporary change

 

County Councillor Mike Goulthorp replaced County Councillor Jayne Rear at this meeting.

2.

Disclosure of Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Interests

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.

Minutes:

No pecuniary or non-pecuniary interests were disclosed.

3.

Minutes of the Meeting held on 1st July 2021 pdf icon PDF 221 KB

Minutes:

Resolved: That the minutes of the meeting held on 1st July 2021 be confirmed and signed by the Chair.

4.

Corporate Strategy Monitoring report – Quarter 1 2021/22 performance update pdf icon PDF 128 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

A report was presented by Donna Talbot, Head of Business Intelligence, on the performance update for Quarter 1 2021/22.

 

Appendix 'A' provided the latest performance updates available against the agreed Corporate Strategy indicators. In addition, it provided the latest available Quarter 1 2021/22 performance information and associated commentary on the current position of each indicator, including any related issues and required actions.

 

The Cabinet Committee noted the highlights of good performance and those indicators performing below the desired level and/or those that were due to the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic, as detailed in the report.

 

The following officers attended the meeting and provided details and updates on their respective service areas:

 

·  Mike Kirby – Director of Strategy and Performance

·  Dave Carr – Director of Policy, Commissioning and Children's Health

·  Ian Crabtree – Director of Adults Disability and Care Services

·  Steve Scott – Head of Waste Management

·  Ridwan Musa – Highways Manager – Operations

 

Specific areas were discussed as follows:

 

Lancashire will be the place to live

 

Safety carriageway defects – it was reported that the number of reported defects had continued to rise in Quarter 1, as the winter season extended into April with prolonged cold surface temperatures continuing to increase the formation of potholes. It had been a challenge to repair many of these defects within required timescales despite additional resources through the Dayworks contract and the Jet Patching contract being fully utilised. Emergency, urgent and non-urgent (5 working days) repairs had therefore not met the targets this Quarter although the Team had been working very hard on these repairs, with many staff working extra hours. However, safety carriageway defects repaired within 20 working days was above target and it was noted that there were the highest number of defects in this particular category.

 

Street lighting fault repair – both non-traffic management and traffic management lamp-out faults had met the targets, reporting 97% and 100% respectively.

 

CC Edwards thanked the Highways Team staff for all their hard work.

 

Children and Families Wellbeing Service – performance in Quarter 1 had exceeded the target with a continued reduction in families withdrawing or becoming disengaged from the service and fewer families being referred to children's social care. A remodelled Children and Families Wellbeing Service had been introduced in Quarter 1, demonstrating that the service had implemented the model, without impacting on frontline services and that it had quickly adapted to the new model.

 

Looked after children who are actually living in Lancashire – performance in Quarter 1 had exceeded the target. Lots of commissioning activity was taking place to try to shape the market to encourage providers to work collaboratively with the service. Increased investment was being put into our in-house Residential provision to ensure that wherever possible, young people were placed appropriately in their community. The Cabinet Committee noted however that, for some young people, it was appropriate that they should not live in Lancashire.

 

Educational attainment

 

Key Stage 4 – it was noted that figures for this would  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.

5.

Public Health Outcomes in Lancashire pdf icon PDF 387 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

A report was presented by Sakthi Karunanithi, Director of Public Health, on the key public health outcomes indicators for Lancashire, benchmarked against England and the North West Region, along with a breakdown by district level where data was available. It was noted that the indicators highlighted worse outcomes in Lancashire compared to the national average.

 

Service level key performance indicators that the county council's public health team were responsible for were provided. The report also outlined the steps being taken to recover from the Covid pandemic and restore and reform our public health services.

 

It was reported that individual Public Health services would be highlighted in future reports to the Cabinet Committee.

 

The globally agreed meaning of health was complete physical, mental, social and spiritual wellbeing. Only approximately 20% of health was determined by access to good quality clinical and care services with the rest determined by behaviours, education, income, jobs, family support, community safety, housing, transport, environment, access to green space and how we are able to live a healthy lifestyle.

 

The steps taken to improve our health and wellbeing would, in turn, improve our planets health and the county council had a huge opportunity to make a difference to the wellbeing of the residents of Lancashire.

 

In relation to key outcomes – how long someone was expected to live and how well they live - there were a number of determinants for this. In Lancashire, although there is a wider variation within the county, it was reported that as an average we had more access to woodland than the national average, in addition to less overcrowding, less unemployment and less homelessness. In Lancashire, we supported people with learning disabilities very well and we had a good youth justice system and pupil absence service reflecting better outcomes that determined overall health.

 

Both male and female healthy life expectancy in Lancashire had been decreasing since 2009-2011 and figures were significantly worse than the England average, although the decreases were not statistically significant. It was expected that males would spend 17.9 years in poor health and females 20.3 years in poor health which were long periods of time to live with disabilities or health conditions. There was therefore lots of opportunity in Lancashire to add years to life, in addition to life to years.

 

In order to influence positive health and wellbeing for the residents of Lancashire, the county council needed to:

 

·  provide services to people on an individual level;

·  improve community level wellbeing by promoting community groups/assets including natural assets;

·  embed wellbeing into all the policies the county council establishes.

 

The Public Health Team had core expectations in terms of delivering statutory services. The team worked with experts within the county council to improve wellbeing, in addition to partners. There was an opportunity to add £10bn to the economy if health issues could be mitigated. It was noted that the essential mandatory services expected to be delivered included health visiting, school nursing services, health checks, contraception and sexual health services  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

6.

Urgent Business

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.

Minutes:

There were no items of Urgent Business.

7.

Date of Next Meeting

The next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Performance Improvement will be held on Thursday 25th November 2021 at 2.00pm.

 

Minutes:

The next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Performance Improvement would be held at 2.00pm on Thursday 25th November 2021.

8.

Notice of Intention to Conduct Business in Private

No representations have been received.

Click here to see the published Notice of Intention to Conduct Business in Private.

 

 

Minutes:

Resolved: That the Notice of Intention to Conduct Business in Private be noted.

9.

Exclusion of the Press and Public

The Committee is asked to consider, whether, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act, 1972, it considers that the public should be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business on the grounds that there would be a likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the appropriate paragraph of Part 1 of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Act, 1972 as indicated against the heading to the items, and that in all circumstances of the case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Minutes:

Resolved: That under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business on the grounds that there would be a likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the appropriate paragraph of Part I of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 as indicated against the heading to the item.

 

10.

Appendix B to Item 5 - Public Health Outcomes in Lancashire

Exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972. The report contains information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information). It is considered that in all the circumstances of the case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

 

Minutes:

All issues in relation to Public Health Outcomes in Lancashire had been discussed under Item 5.

11.

Update Report on the Performance of Lancashire County Council's Waste Processing Facilities

Exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972. The report contains information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information). It is considered that in all the circumstances of the case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

 

Minutes:

Steve Scott, Head of Service – Waste Management presented an update report on the performance of Lancashire County Council's waste processing facilities.

 

Information was provided to the Cabinet Committee on the following:

 

·  Residual waste – production of refuse derived fuel;

·  Residual waste – mass loss operations;

·  Residual waste performance summary;

·  Recyclables – Materials Recovery Facility;

·  Transport contract;

·  Financial summary;

·  Coronavirus Pandemic; and

·  Governance.

 

Resolved: That the report and the information provided at Appendix 'A' be noted.