Issue - meetings

The Committee had before it a report by Kevin Toshney (Planning and Development Manager, ACHSCP) which presented the ACHSCP Annual Report 2017-18 to Committee to enable it to assess the partnership’s progress in achieving the national health and wellbeing outcomes and to consider the desired style and substance of next year’s annual performance report.

The report recommended:-

That the Committee –

(a)          Consider the approved ACHSCP Annual Report 2017-18 and agree that

further analysis of those outcomes and indicators where the partnership’s performance was not as good as expected is required;

(b)          Request that a progress report on the analysis of the partnership’s

poorer than expected performance in certain areas is presented to a

future Audit & Performance Systems Committee meeting; and

(c)          Outline its presentational preferences for next year’s annual performance report.

Alison MacLeod explained that the Partnership was statutorily required to publish an annual report and noted that the report had been approved by the IJB at its meeting on 28 August 2018. She advised that the Annual Report was before the Committee today to outline reporting arrangements for the new strategic performance indicators and to seek Committee endorsement to adopt a more creative approach during the development of next year’s Annual Report.

Thereafter there were questions and comments on (1) the importance of developing easy-read versions of its key strategic documents to increase accessibility; and (2) whether the Partnership could expand its engagement approach to capture views from service users and hard to reach groups which typically did not respond to consultations.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)           to approve the Annual Report 2017-18 and agree that further analysis of those outcomes and indicators where the Partnership’s performance was not as good as expected, along with solutions to improve performance is reported as part of the regular quarterly performance reporting to Committee and the IJB; and

(ii)          to agree to adopt a more creative approach during the development of next year’s Annual Report, and to instruct the Lead Strategy and Performance Manager to present options for consideration at the Committee’s next meeting on 13 November 2018.