Local Government Reform - Consultation on Policy Proposals

for service delivery and performance improvement. Councils will be
required to publish their performance indicators in this plan. This
would enhance local accountability and enable comparisons to be
made between councils.
5.11. It is proposed that the Department should be able to specify the
elements that must be included within a corporate plan and the
associated improvement plan, and to issue guidance on the form
and content of plans, including the manner in which they should be
published.
5.12. This should ensure that a council’s corporate and improvement
plans achieve three primary aims:
• to summarise how successful the council was in meeting its
objectives and performance targets for the previous year;
• to inform local people of the council’s performance targets for the
following year and future years; and
• to set out the council’s progress in meeting any longer term
targets and, where it is not on course to meet them, to give an
outline of what action it is taking to remedy the situation.
The information to be reported in the plan would also enable
comparisons to be made between councils.
Question 32:
Do you agree with the proposals for the public reporting of a
council’s performance improvement?
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