A new style of report is being introduced to provide clearer information to support decision making. It also identifies how report recommendations link to a range of existing policy priorities and service monitoring arrangements.
The new format is being introduced over the next 2 months and will be formally reviewed in November to consider the need for any amendments/improvements.
For the meetings in September and October, there will be a mix of the old and new format of reports and readers are requested to note that during this transition period there may be some differences in the report layout. All reports, however, contain the appropriate levels of detail and information to consider the issues properly and reach decisions.
What does the new report look like?
The new style of report has a very different layout to the older style reports and now has 3 sections; which are as follows:
- Section 1 – provides a summary of the purpose of the report, an outline of the decisions required, details of the author and a list of documents that support the report
- Section 2 – provides an overview of the impacts the proposals are expected to have, the risks associated with the proposals and an indication of which of the council priorities the proposals support. These are set out in a series of tables.
- Section 3 – Provides the details of the proposals and/or issues and forms the main part of the report.
To find out more about the new report format, please download the document below.