Issue - meetings

A review of the relevant Dorset Council performance dashboard to inform the scrutiny committee’s forward plan and identify items for deep dives.

Committee members to flag up if any areas for potential review:

Operational – Corporate: Councillors Brian Heatley and David Shortell

Operational – Place: Councillors Mark Roberts, David Tooke and Jon Andrews

HR: Councillors Andy Canning and Bill Trite

The Chairman, Councillor Shane Bartlett, maintains an overview of all the above areas.

The committee considered issues arising from the Performance Dashboard that had been set up for the monitoring of performance for areas covered by the remit of the committee.  A link to the performance dashboard is provided below for information:

Place and Resources Scrutiny Committee Performance Dashboard

The following points were noted:

·       The committee noted a performance indicator relating to ‘Overall – Number of homes built in Dorset Council area’ and noted that the overall delivery of homes across Dorset did not meet the adopted local plan targets.  Questions were raised as to whether sites that had received planning permission could be identified, the number of properties per site that had not yet been built and how far past the grant timescale they were and whether there was anything the council could do to encourage more homes to be built

·       Targets relating to ‘Percentage of principal roads requiring urgent attention’ and the ‘Percentage of non-principal roads requiring urgent attention’ - questions were raised as to what options the council had to improve the figures.  A report could be produced to provide information on the approach taken by the council for the maintenance of principal and non-principal roads and the approach to funding in this area

·       Performance indicators relating to staff sickness days were to be looked at by the People and Health Scrutiny Committee

·       Information on the council’s approach to reporting ‘staff near misses’ was provided.