Bath & North East Somerset Council is making headway on its core aim of improving people’s lives despite the challenges posed by Covid-19, according to its latest performance health check.

A report to go before cabinet on Thursday 16 December says the council is making good progress delivering on some of its priorities, despite having to reallocate staff and resources to help people through the pandemic.

Councillor Kevin Guy, Leader of the council said: “Much of our time, effort and resources are still being diverted to our Covid response, but I’m pleased to see that we are still making progress delivering on our Corporate Strategy, particularly in key areas like Adult Social Care and waste management.

“Although we continue to face unprecedented challenges, we must not lose sight of our aims and commitments and our quarterly Strategic Indictor Reports are a useful tool to monitor and measure our performance.”

The report looks at a number of performance indicators across services areas. It reveals:

The rate for household recycled/composted waste is 61% against a target of 60%, demonstrating the council’s success in moving towards its zero-waste ambition.

The council’s in-house Energy at Home Service continues to support residents to lower their carbon emissions and has provided information or sign posted more than 176 households to services to help them save energy at home.

Despite the most difficult year the council has faced in Adult Social Care, 68% of annual reviews to ensure people’s needs are met have been completed against a target of 80%.

44 people in every 100k are now being supported to live independently at home rather than in a care home, against a target of 51.

100% of Adult Safeguarding enquiries have been dealt with and risks either removed or reduced.

The number of Children on Education Health & Care Plans (EHCP) has increased to more than 1,700, impacting council and school resources.

The council has successfully administrated nearly 18,000 Business Grants payments to local businesses, totalling more than £44.3m.

The report also highlights the results of the last resident’s survey carried out in November 2020, which revealed 87% were satisfied with their local area as a place to live and 64% were satisfied which how the council runs things, an increase on 2018.

A new survey has been sent to 3750 households across the district and the results will be published in February.

You can read the report to cabinet on the council’s website, watch the webcast of the cabinet meeting live or view it later on the council’s YouTube channel.