Report of Director of Economic Growth and Neighbourhood Services and Director of Children and Adult Services

The Director of Economic Growth and Neighbourhood Services and Director of  Children and Adult Services submitted a report (previously circulated) providing Members with an update on performance against those key performance indicators within the remit of this Scrutiny Committee for the period 2019/20.

Details were provided of the 36 indicators reported to this Scrutiny Committee, nine indicators were reported by Housing and Leisure and 24 by Public Health.

At Quarter 4 data was available for all nine of the Housing and Leisure indicators and of those indicators four had targets to be compared against. It was noted that HBS 016 – Rent collected as a proportion of rents owed on HRA dwellings * including arrears b/fwd, was showing performance not as good as its target whilst three of the indicators with targets were showing performance better than their target; and that, of the nine indicators, four demonstrated an improved performance compared to the same point in the previous year whilst five indicators, which included the three Leisure indicators, showed a performance not as good as that recorded at the same time in the previous year.

Details were provided on the Public Health indicators which had updated information to report at quarter 4, of which there were five indicators. Those indicators were  PBH 020 – Reception: Prevalence of overweight (including obesity); PBH 021 – Year 6: Prevalence of overweight (including obesity); PBH024 – Hospital admissions caused by unintentional and deliberate injuries to children (0-4 years); PBH026 – Hospital admissions caused by unintentional and deliberate injuries to children (0-14 years); and PBH027 – Hospital admissions caused by unintentional and deliberate injuries to children (15-24 years).

Discussion ensued on PBH 041 – Waiting times – number of adult alcohol only clients waiting over 3 weeks to start first intervention and Members were assured that although there had been an increase in waiting times, this was as a result of an increase in service users accessing treatment due to work undertaken by partner agencies. Regarding PBH038, Waiting times – number of adult opiate clients waiting over three weeks to start first intervention, it was reported that the new drug and alcohol service provider was now in place.

RESOLVED – (a) That the submitted report be noted.

(b) That an update be provided on the new drug and alcohol service provider at a future meeting of this Scrutiny Committee.