South Ayrshire Council Plans

Introduction

Since the review of service planning in January 2009, significant progress has been made to align and strengthen the Council’s arrangements, within a clear service planning hierarchy.

In October 2009, the Council agreed a Corporate Plan which draws clear linkages between the aims and objectives set out in the plan and the Councils Vision and Single Outcome Agreement (SOA) for the local Community Planning Partnership. Indicators of success and a reporting cycle were also agreed.

The next layer of planning was put in place at the October Leadership Panel. Directorate Plans were agreed which provide directorate level detail and linkages through the Corporate Plan to the Vision and SOA. Indicators of success were set out against each task. The Leadership Panel took the decision to remit the Directorate Plans to the relevant Standing Scrutiny Panels. To aid scrutiny consideration, a mapping was undertaken which showed which directorate objectives were encompassed within the remit of each Scrutiny Panel. It also identified the portfolio holder responsible for each directorate objective.

The next stage in the development of the golden thread is connecting directorate tasks with team and individual work programmes. The Performance and Development Review (PDR) system currently being rolled out across the Council will ensure there is a connection between the objectives of every individual and the Council’s aims and objectives.

The on-going implementation of PDR is scheduled to be introduced to every service area by March 2010. At that point, we will have the first complete golden thread which connects what each individual does in the organisation through directorate objectives and corporate aims through to the Council’s Vision.