Issue - meetings

The Board considered a report that set out performance against Local Area Agreement (LAA) targets within the Board’s responsibility during Quarter Two of 2009/10.

It was noted that performance against the Stretch Target with respect to Incapacity Benefits was still an area of concern and at present it was unlikely that this target would be met by the end of the year. A raft of measures were in place to address this including the establishment of a new Service Level Agreement (SLA) with Reed in Partnership whereby clients would also be able to access Council based initiatives.

The Board discussed the how the loss of reward funding, attached to achieving Stretch Targets, would be dealt with and the Board was advised that this was difficult to address at present as reward funding received with respect to all the Stretch Targets across the HSP would be allocated by the HSP itself. Therefore there was specific sum that could be used as a basis for approximations.

There was agreement that the Board needed to consider the arguments that it would put forward for obtaining reward funding before March 2010 and that a report should be submitted to the next meeting addressing this and setting out the maximum sums that might be available.

RESOLVED:

1. That the report be noted.

2. That a report should be submitted to the next meeting setting out the arguments that could be put forward for receiving Stretch Target reward funding and setting out the maximum sums that might be available.