Official Thumbs up for Maidenhead Royal Borough's Performance
That's the official view of the Audit Commission's annual report for 2005-6 presented to Cabinet last week - which highlights 'better services in most areas' and awards the council a 'Good' three-star rating in its continuous performance assessment.
Improved performance was recognised in Maidenhead areas including:
* school results, which continue to improve, building on high standards
* services for children and young people
* adult social care including the innovative use of direct payments
* planning
* waste recycling
* transport and access to services through the customer service centre.
The report concludes that the Maidenhead council is:
* securing significant savings without reducing service delivery
* continuing to provide better services in most area - with standards of
performance relatively high
* working hard to improve the way it runs its business to get better value for
the money it spends
* improving the level of council tax and business rate collection and the
handling of benefit claims.
David Lunn, Maidenhead chief executive, was delighted with the report. He said:
'This is a fantastic result, and a tribute to the enormous amount of hard work
of a great many people.
'It is very rewarding to have official recognition of the improving quality of
our public services - which in turn reflects the importance of our ongoing
Delivering Excellence modernisation programme.
'The Audit Commission's report acknowledges the increased pressures on us to
continue to provide and maintain services within financial constraints - and
highlights one or two areas needing attention such as gaps in housing support
services for vulnerable people and the need to update and maintain our buildings
and property. We take on board these comments and will continue to work to
improve in these areas.'
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
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