How we monitor Council performance
The Council has a Performance Assurance Framework which brings together all the strategies and plans that we have in place across the whole organisation. This framework is shown in the diagram below:
Diagram of the performance assurance framework for the Council Plan
The Council Plan sits at the top of our Framework because it sets out the top strategic priorities for the Council.
This is underpinned by our Strategic Framework. These are the other corporate-level strategies that provide greater detail for key themes such as transformation, economic growth, community safety, health and wellbeing or finance. It includes strategies that are shared with strategic partners and those that are only relevant to the Council.
Our aim is to ensure that we have a streamlined process where performance information is shared in the right place, with the most appropriate audience. For the Council Plan that will be with Finance and Corporate Affairs Committee. Other performance information may be more appropriate to go to a different Policy Committee, a Partnership Board such as the Safer Hartlepool Partnership or the Health and Wellbeing Board, Audit and Governance Committee, or an officer group such as our Departmental Management Teams. We will ensure that the information presented to the identified audience is relevant and sufficient to enable oversight of our work whilst upholding the principle of openness and transparency.
As a Council we monitor our performance through our Performance Assurance Framework using performance indicators (PIs), actions and risks.