Issue - meetings

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

The following link is the dashboard for the committee:

Place and Resources Scrutiny Committee dashboard

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

Operational – Corporate: Councillors Piers Brown, Barry Goringe and David Shortell

Operational – Place: Councillors David Tooke and Jon Andrews

HR: Councillors Rod Adkins, Andy Canning, Brian Heatley and Bill Trite

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

The committee considered the performance dashboard and highlighted some areas of interest. These included:

·       Short- and long-term sickness levels and turnover across the council – a discussion would take place during the exempt part of the agenda

·       Number of staff non-reportable accidents and number of near misses reported in the Place directorate – The Executive Director of Place noted that work had been undertaken to encourage staff to report near misses and issues before they became a problem, which was reflected in higher numbers being reported in the performance dashboard

·       % of Council Tax and Business Rates collected – an update had been provided by the Corporate Director Financial and Commercial which noted that during the financial years 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23, a significant amount of grants and reliefs had been awarded due to the Covid-19 Pandemic and as a result the net collectable business rates were significantly reduced. This years figures would be better compared with pre-pandemic figures from 2019-20 and which showed that the position this year was slightly ahead in comparison.