10 Leisure Review-Update PDF 93 KB
Guy Kilminster, Head of Health & Wellbeing to provide a presentation on the Leisure Review.
Minutes:
Guy Kilminster Head of Wellbeing attended the meeting and updated members on a review of Leisure Services currently being carried out by a Cabinet Sub Committee.
The review had been initiated because the original two unitary Councils had stated in their business case that a saving of £1,000,000 could be generated across Cheshire East through delivering leisure in a different way.
The sub-committee had agreed to the appointment of consultants (PMPGenesis) to review the performance of the inherited facilities and to consider alternative options for the future delivery of the service.
The report concluded that the performance of leisure services was mixed with some performing strongly and others not so well (to be expected with the merging of three District’s Services). Income was deemed to be good compared to market averages, and with the exception of two facilities, staff costs were below average with the service described as lean in terms of staff costs to income. The percentage cost recovery was good at about half the facilities. The poorer performing facilities were those that the predecessor authorities had already identified as being in need of replacement or significant refurbishment.
The presentation also covered the new opportunities available and the links between the leisure review and the Transformation programme generally
In particular, Leisure Services would need to demonstrate how it would meet the transformational outcomes which were set out in the Budget Report to Full Council on 25th February 2010. Those outcomes were that transformed services should be more:-
· Local – Services more fully based out in localities and, where appropriate, owned in those localities so that they are more easily accessible and more readily responsive to local people.
· Joined Up – Services more extensively co-located with those of partners, and based out in non-Council settings locally.
· Sustainable – a smaller set of Services, built around the Council’s core businesses and affordable with the resources likely to be available.
· Focused on outcomes – a more tightly focused set of Services, directed towards achieving agreed objectives and outcomes.
· Preventive – Services which give much higher priority to prevention.
· Innovative – Services which encourage their staff to use their experience, intelligence and creativity to solve problems and to improve the experience of those who use the Services.
· High Quality – a set of Services committed to enhancing quality.
Much improvement was already underway and new ways of working had been introduced. These included: