• Report by:

    Ann Davie, Chief Executive

  • TN Number:

    117-24

  • Subject:

    Strategic Planning and Performance – Business and Improvement Plans 2024-2027

  • Responsible Officer:

    Joseph Greatorex, Team Leader – Corporate Performance & Research

  • Publication:

    This Technical Note will be published on the Council’s website following circulation to Members. Its contents may be disclosed or shared outwith the Council.

Section

  1. The purpose of this Technical Note is to provide Members with the Business and Improvement Plans for 2024-27 (BIPs) for all Council Strategic Groupings, East Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership and East Dunbartonshire Leisure and Culture Trust. (Appendix 1, 2 and 3).
  2. The BIPs identify Strategic Group improvement priorities and contributions to the delivery of the local strategic outcomes set out in the East Dunbartonshire Local Outcome Improvement Plan. They identify the challenges and opportunities which services need to address through responding to the needs of local stakeholders and the implementation of local and national policy priorities. The plans have the following core sections;
  • About us
  • Our Priorities for 2024-27
  • How we contribute to our agreed Local Priorities
  • Improvement Action Plan
  • Priority Performance Indicators
  • Sustainability
  • Risk Management
  • Stakeholder Consultation and Engagement
  1. The plans require Executive Officers to set out their purpose and priorities and provide information relevant to the work of their team and, enabling a more systematic approach to consultation, management of risk and our approach to sustainable development.
  2. Additionally, the plans provide an enhanced focus on performance management and improvement with Executive Officers setting out an Improvement Plan aligned to the delivery of local outcomes together with a range of performance indicators designed to enable an effective review of progress.
  3. In accordance with the corporate arrangements for performance management and reporting, performance updates on progress against delivery of the BIPS will be reported to Elected Members monthly via technical note in the monthly HGIOS reports. More detailed six monthly and year end HGIOS reports will also be produced in the usual way.