Decision details

The audit commission have highlighted the council’s need to improve its data quality arrangements. New national criteria for good data quality (under the Use of Resources Key Lines of Enquiry) set the standards we are required to reach

The report includes a draft strategy for how the council plans to improve its management information over the next three years, taking into account the new criteria for data quality.

The Head of Improvement submitted a report presents a Management Information Strategy and action plan for Cherwell District Council which will deliver continuous improvement in its information management arrangements, helping to improve service delivery and respond effectively to the new CAA assessment regime.

Resolved

(1)       That appropriate member training be included in the member training programme with regard to using and analysing management information.

(2)       That the management information strategy and action plan be agreed

(3)       That Officers report back on progress with the implementation of the strategy and action plan in March 2010

Reasons - This strategy sets out a broad framework of how the council intends to develop its management arrangements for the production, sharing, analysis and interpretation of management information. It will be use as the basis for a medium term action plan to guide improvement activity during the period 2009/10 to 2011/12.