How will we implement this plan and monitor progress?

Our Corporate Plan sets out the Council's priorities and drives how resources are allocated over the lifetime of the plan. It is a key element of our integrated financial and corporate planning process. Each strategic objective is associated with a number of corporate priorities. The strategic objectives have not been ranked in any particular order to show relative importance. In order to ensure these priorities are achieved, and to allow councillors and officers to monitor progress, actions are identified, targets are set and performance is measured against these targets and then reported on. For more details of the actions and targets associated with each corporate priority see our page Key targets, actions and measures per priority. Appendix 1 includes more details about the actual measurements and ¿ where appropriate ¿ when we expect them to be achieved.

There are two types of measures:

• National Indicators ( NIs). These are part of a set of central Government¿s national indicators that apply to all councils. The indicators which are included in the Oxfordshire Local Area Agreement 2008-11 have (LAA) included at the end of the indicator description.
• LPTs are local performance targets. These are described and measured locally where the officers and councillors feel there are important priorities to measure that are not covered by a national indicator.

Each of these indicators and actions are written into annual service plans that are agreed with senior officers and councillors within the Council. All plans are monitored and progress is recorded in quarterly reports made to our Executive and Scrutiny Committee. These reports can be seen on Corporate governance reporting pages.