Issue - meetings

(Report of the Assistant Chief Executive – to be introduced by the Leader of the Council). To provide an update on progress against the Council’s priorities and other major responsibilities in the first quarter of 2012/13.  

Cabinet considered a report, introduced by the Leader of the Council, which provided an update in relation to progress against the Council’s priorities and other major responsibilities during the first quarter of 2012/13.

In response to a question with regard to performance in relation to the adoption of Looked After Children, Cabinet was advised that the Department for Families and Education (DFE) had considered that the Council’s plans for improvement in this area were sufficiently robust and that performance in this area would continue to be closely monitored by the Corporate Parenting Committee. 

There was agreement that the Cabinet Member for the Environment would check whether figures reported within the report in relation to a rise in litter, from 8% to 13%, were correct and report back to Cabinet and the Leader of the Opposition.

RESOLVED:

1. That progress against the Council’s priorities and other major responsibilities during the first quarter of 2012/13 be noted.

2. That the emerging issues and challenges going forward be noted.