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PERFORMANCE MONITORING REPORT

Meeting: 22/10/2012 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 152)

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This report informs Members of progress against the Council’s priorities and other major responsibilities in the first quarter of 2012/13.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee received an update on progress against the Council’s priorities and other major responsibilities in the first quarter of 2012/13.  Up to date Quarter 2 information had been provided to Members as part of the supplementary pack. 

 

Margaret Gallagher outlined the highlights of the report:

 

·                    September had seen the creation of 17 jobs through the Jobs Fund

·                    There had been an increase in the amount of people in Temporary Accommodation.  The overall trend was decreasing, but the Haringey average was significantly higher than the London average

·                    The number of children in care had reduced from 574 (March) to 542 (September) – a rate of 110 per 10,000 population, which was a reduction compared to last year but still higher than the national average.

·                    The number of children under a child protection plan had increased and the Haringey rate was higher than its’ statistical neighbours.

·                    57.9% of pupils had received 5 GCSEs at A-C grades, although this statistic was subject to validation.

·                    Housing benefit and Council Tax claims had reduced significantly.

·                    There had been an increase in violent crime.

·                    An improvement had been made in the under 18 conception rate

 

Margaret Gallagher informed the Committee that she may be unable to answer any service specific questions, but would refer these to the relevant officers.

 

The Committee requested information on the following:

 

·                    Education – what actions were being taken to bring the fixed term exclusion rate in line with the inner London rate?

·                    What measures were being taken to ensure that the case loads of social workers were manageable and to ensure that there were enough social workers in the authority?

·                    Target HY483 – average days from becoming looked after to placed for adoption for children adopted in period – was ‘red’ for Quarter 2.  What plans were in place to reduce this and bring in line with the Government target?

·                    Now that the Belmont Infant and Junior School expansion plans had been rejected, would there be an affect on school places and how would this be dealt with?

 

The Committee had a brief discussion on how this type of information was presented at meetings and suggested that it would be better to receive it at an earlier stages so that Members could scrutinise it in more details and address concerns in other ways.  It was suggested that Panels may be better placed to consider areas within their remit and OSC to consider areas it specifically covered.

 

The Chair thanked Margaret Gallagher for attending.