Report Title: Corporate Plan 2024-27: Q1 Performance Report (2024/25)

Presented by: Councillor Ray Morgon, Leader of Havering Council

Summary:

The Council’s affordable Corporate Plan for 2024-2027, was formally adopted in April 2024, after recognising the November 2022 one was not realistic given the Council’s financial position.

This Plan, has a clear and practical focus on what we can do within our budget for this year. This includes putting in place more rigorous reporting and financial assurance and the production of newly required improvement and transformation plans. The plan reflects our joined up approach to improving the health and wellbeing of Havering residents through our Place based Partnership.

The Council provides a wide range of services to our communities, spending more than £180 million every year. Some of these services - statutory services - are ones that we must provide by law. Others, called discretionary services, are ones we want and choose to provide. We know many of these services are highly valued by our residents, but sadly not all can be reflected in our affordable Corporate Plan.

Our overall vision “The Havering you want to be part of" has not changed. We now have three clear objectives sitting underneath that we remain committed to delivering. These are: -

1.        Supporting our residents to stay safe and well

2.        A great place to live, work and enjoy

3.        Enabling a resident-focused and resilient Council

Cabinet:

Considered and noted the levels of performance set out in the quarter one PowerBI report.