Minutes:
The Chairman explained that the Council had recently taken part in a ‘Peer Challenge’ where a team of senior officers and councillors from a variety of local authorities visited Havering to review the Council’s strategic direction and its leadership, corporate capacity and financial resilience.
The review group provided positive feedback, considering that the Council had developed and implemented a strategic approach to the challenges it faced and continued to face, and that it should be proud of its achievements, particularly its central transformation programme which had maintained customer-driven frontline services despite financial constraints.
The Chairman announced that a strategic work-plan would be formulated in response to findings due to be outlined in a report from the Peer Challenge review group which had yet to be released.