Performance Plan 2004 - 2005

Introduction and contents

Welcome to North Lanarkshire Council's Performance Plan for 2004/2005.

The performance plan is the implementation plan for the first year of our new corporate plan. The corporate plan 2004/2008 identifies seven priority themes arrived at in partnership with local agencies and communities:

1. Stimulating business and the economy
2. Promoting social inclusion
3. Encouraging lifelong learning
4. Promoting health, well-being and care
5. Improving housing and the environment
6. Promoting community safety and development
7. Developing the organisation

The performance plan sets out outcomes to be achieved by April 2005 for each aim and action within the corporate plan. Through individual actions we also track our compliance with both recent legislation and more detailed elements of existing legislation as these come into force (for example, part III of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995).

Progress towards outcomes will be monitored during the course of the year and the results will be included in the annual performance report in September 2005.

The plan also includes targets and actual outcomes for selected performance indicators. The full range of performance indicators to March 2003 is available elsewhere. Indicators to March 2004 will be available from October 2004.

Departmental Service Improvement Plans and individual strategies, including the North Lanarkshire Community Plan, the Social Inclusion Strategy and the Race Equality scheme provide more detailed information.

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