Decision details

The Leader of the Council presented an update on the progress of the South & East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership since 18 September 2023.

The report set out the progress made by the Partnership business case under the headings of:-

·         Annual Delivery Plan 2022/23 – The Annual Delivery plan activity was being monitored by the Joint Strategy Board to support the Partnership in delivering on its priorities, as well as sovereign Council ambitions.

·         Performance Framework 2023/24 – The performance measures had been reviewed for 2024/25 and set out in the Framework in Appendix A within the report. It was recommended to continue on the current suite of measures wherever possible to allow the Council to build up trend reporting over time.

·         Peer Challenge Update – The Partnership LGA Peer Challenge had taken place in October 2022. The Peers’ findings and feedback had been reported to Council and fed into the Partnership’s development plans for 23/24 and beyond. A follow up visit was carried out on 28^th  September 2023 to explore progress against each of the original recommendations where the Peers had noted a significant amount of progress which had been made to deliver on their 2022 recommendations.

·         Priority Partnerships Update – A number of key Partnerships had been established as mechanisms for delivering the strategic priorities for the Partnership, which were set out within the report.

·         Growth and Prosperity Priority Partnership – the Growth Team continued to work with new and existing partners.

·         Healthy Lives Priority Partnership – the South & East Lincolnshire Partnership Healthy Living Board was continuing to work with partners to help residents lead healthy, long and fulfilling lives.

·         Safer Communities Priority Partnership – there had been two meetings of the South and East Lincolnshire Community Safety Partnership since the last update, in October 2023 and February 2024 respectively, details of which were included within the report.

·         Enhancing the Living Environment Priority Partnership – the South and East Lincolnshire Climate Action Network (SELCAN) / Environment Priority Partnership had met in November 2023, and the sub-groups have been having joint meetings throughout the year with others working towards similar priority proposals. Further details were included within the report

The recommendations were moved by Councillor Anne Dorrian and seconded by Councillor Dale Broughton.

RESOLVED

1.         That the progress of the Annual Delivery Plan (ADP) 2023/24 (section 2 within the report) be noted;

2.         That the Performance Framework 2024/25 (section 3 within the report) be noted;

3.         That the Peer Challenge update (section 4 within the report) be noted;

4.         That the updates from the Priority Partnerships (section 5 within the report) be noted; and

5.         That the Partnership Scrutiny update (section 6 within the report) be noted.