Meeting Details

Members are reminded that they should declare any personal and/or prejudicial interests at this point and that they should leave the meeting before any item, in which they have a prejudicial interest, is discussed.

Members are asked to agree the minutes of the meeting of the Audit and Performance Management Committee, held on 11 September 2008, and that they be signed as a correct record.

To receive any questions, statements or petitions, of which notice has been received, from members of the public.

To consider a resolution that the public be excluded from the meeting for item 6 on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of information, which the Government has directed should, for the time being, be kept confidential.

The Committee will receive a verbal report from the Auditors on the 2008 Direction of Travel and Use of Resources Audits and other relevant matters. For information. The meeting will revert to open session at this point.

This report informs Members of the expected score attributed to this Authority for the Key Performance Indicator element of the performance assessment 2007/08, and predicted outturn based on the current performance of the Key Performance Indicators 2008/09.

This report provides information regarding the ongoing performance of the Retained Duty System in Shropshire.

The purpose of this report is to report progress by exception within the Improvement Priorities Programme for 2008/09 and receive a presentation on the Core Business identified under the Core Value area Community

This report summarises the progress made to date against the improvements contained in the Annual Governance Statement (AGS) Improvement Plan 2008/09.

This purpose of this report is to update Members on the progress of the actions identified within the Corporate Equality Action Plan which are being monitored through the Directorate Business Plans.

The report informs members of specific training priorities identified as the basis for a training programme.