Policy and performance

For the last eight years the council has been required to produce an annual performance plan. In accordance with the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2007/ukpga_20070028_en_1) there is no longer a statutory requirement to publish an annual Best Value Performance Plan in the format of previous years. A Communities and Local Government letter dated 7 March 2008 stated that, for 2007/2008, the requirement is limited to the reporting of outturn performance data together with a statement certifying compliance with the Code of Practice on workforce matters. The statement is set out below.

The performance plan information tables for 2008/2009 (pdf 176KB) are available to download. To use this and the other pdf files on this page, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have this on your computer, please use our advice page.

The information in the tables is set out under the council's core values and strategic priorities:

• Putting our customers at the centre of everything we do.
• Giving value for money.
• A clean and green environment.
• Safer communities.
• Children and young people having the best start in life.
• Older and vulnerable people maintaining their independence.
• People travelling easily and safely in Medway.
• Everyone benefitting from the area's regeneration.

To view last year's performance plan (pdf 2,619KB) and indicator tables (pdf 402KB) are also available to download.

If you would like to receive the plan in an alternative format, please contact the Research and Review Team, using the information at the foot of this page.

Statement certifying compliance with the Code of Practice on Workforce Matters

Medway Council will continue to ensure that all individual contracts that are awarded comply with the Code of Practice on Workforce Matters in local authority service contracts, as it has this year. This means that all companies awarded contracts by Medway Council must treat staff who transfer to them no less favourably than when they were employed by the council.

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