Council and elections

Council Plan 2022 to 2027

The Council Plan describes our strategic priorities as a council, the actions we will take to deliver these, and some of the measures that will help demonstrate the improvements we make.

It sets out how we will work with our communities, our partners, and businesses to make Renfrewshire a great place to live, work and visit.

Our priorities are:

• Place: working together to enhance wellbeing across communities
• Economy: building an inclusive, green and resilient economy (matching people, skills and opportunities)
• Fair: nurturing bright, happy and healthy futures for all
• Green: leading Renfrewshire to Net Zero
• Living Our Values: making a difference together.

We also have a cross-cutting theme running through the Council Plan - Improving outcomes for children and families.

The Leadership Board get progress reports on the Council Plan every six months.   

Public performance report (How are we doing?)

All our services are here to make sure that everyone living in Renfrewshire enjoys a good quality of life. This performance report is designed to help you make your own judgement about how we are doing.

Every year, we report on our performance. Like other local authorities, we participate in the Local Government Benchmarking Framework, where we report our performance against 108 indicators to an organisation called the Improvement Service.

We also provide information about some projects, initiatives that the council and partners are delivering on.

See the latest public performance report.

Service-level performance

Each council service produces a Service Improvement Plan which sets out how they will contribute to the delivery of the Council Plan priorities.

These Service Improvement Plans are approved by Policy Boards and performance reports are provided twice a year. 

See outturn reports on a full year's worth of activity for these services:

Services may also choose to provide additional updates on performance as needed. This will include everything from updates on how quickly phone calls are answered to an inspection report on a local school.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking allows us to compare our performance so that we can identify best practice, learn from each other, and improve what we do.

Local Government Benchmarking Framework

All 32 councils are measuring a common set of performance indicators called the Local Government Benchmarking Framework. This national framework brings together performance indicators from each local authority and provides benchmarking data on a wide range of key services such as education, housing, and adult social care. 

We include this benchmarking information in our Public Performance Report (How are we doing?)

Find more information on the Local Government Benchmarking Framework website.

Other benchmarking

Services also use data from other sources to understand how we are doing compared with other organisations. 

This can include statistical information all councils provide to the Scottish Government or to organisations such as the Scottish Housing Regulator.   

We include some of these in our service improvement plans and other papers that are available in the meetings section of our Committee and Councillors website. 

Elected members and Council Boards are regularly provided with performance reports.

Our key performance reporting is focused on:

• Council Plan 2022 to 2027
• Public performance report (How we are doing)
• Service-level performance
• Benchmarking

What this EQIA has found

We have identified potential positive impacts on people with disabilities and people who are pregnant (including less scanning of physical paperwork), and lower socioeconomic backgrounds (including upskilling of staff to use the system and give them more experience in using digital tools).

There could be negative equality impacts on older groups and disabled people through the introduction of a new digital tool. We'll help prevent these potential impacts by providing training and training guides to all current and new employees who are required to use the DCMS within their role. 

We'll ensure the solution complies with the international Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA accessibility standard, which defines how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities. 

Where the DCMS system remains inaccessible to employees that need to use the system, we will put reasonable adjustments in place. 

We have identified positive human rights impacts relating to the right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence particularly around personal data, privacy and confidentiality by improving data security. As data is intended to bring all related information within one system, it is easier to manage, access, and store in a cloud-based system.

What happens next

We have taken actions to reduce potential negative impacts which were identified above. 

Whilst we have identified no further action throughout the project lifecycle, we'll capture lessons learned and consider what went well, what didn’t go as well as expected, and what we would do differently in the future. 

Through this process, positive and negative impact of the system may be understood and these lessons learned may have actions associated with them.

More information

For more information on this Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment (EQHRIA), email EQHRIA@renfrewshire.gov.uk 

We are introducing a new Digital Cemetery Management System (DCMS) to address the challenges we face in modernising service delivery and to comply with new regulations relating to the Burials & Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016. 

This investment will provide us with significant operational improvements, leading to enhanced service delivery for residents and a more efficient workflow for staff.

How the public interact with the service will not change when we introduce the new system, so this EQHRIA largely focuses on internal stakeholders.

Results of Scottish Parliamentary election 2021

Paisley Constituency

Electorate - 56,070

Total votes cast - 35,108

Rejected ballot papers - 143

Turnout - 62.6%

Renfrewshire North and West Constituency

Electorate - 56,472

Total votes cast - 38,367

Rejected ballot papers - 129

Turnout - 67.9%

Renfrewshire South constituency

Electorate - 53,012

Total votes cast - 34,821

Rejected ballot papers - 123

Turnout - 65.7%

West Scotland Region

I, Sandra Black, Regional Returning Officer for the West of Scotland Region HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that following the application of the formula for the additional member system of proportional representation, the candidates elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament as members for the West of Scotland Region are as follows:

Total votes cast in the West Scotland Region ballot

Total votes cast - 378,389

Percentage of poll - 67.2%

Rejected ballot papers - 702

West Scotland region ballot - Paisley

Total votes cast - 35,171

Rejected ballot papers - 62

West Scotland region ballot - Renfrewshire North and West

Total votes cast - 38,434

Rejected ballot papers - 62

West Scotland region ballot - Renfrewshire South

Total votes cast - 34,910

Rejected ballot papers - 71

What it is

This is the result of the election in Ward 12 Erskine and Inchinnan.

There are 4 councillors elected.

The percentage poll was 46.2%. There were 5,945 valid papers and 106 rejected papers.

The quota of votes for a candidate to be elected is 1,190.

Who has been elected

The first preference votes received by each candidates and the stage at which any candidate was elected.

Rejected votes

These are the number of total ballot papers that were rejected as void and not counted:

Election results data

What it is

This is the result of the election in Ward 11 Bishopton, Bridge of Weir and Langbank.

There are 3 councillors elected.

The percentage poll was 50.8%. There were 6,565 valid papers and 71 rejected papers.

The quota of votes for a candidate to be elected is 1,642.

Who has been elected

The first preference votes received by each candidates and the stage at which any candidate was elected.

Rejected votes

These are the number of total ballot papers that were rejected as void and not counted:

Election results data

What it is

This is the result of the election in Ward 10 Houston, Crosslee and Linwood.

There are 4 councillors elected.

The percentage poll was 45.1%. There were 5,609 valid papers and 143 rejected papers.

The quota of votes for a candidate to be elected is 1,122.

Who has been elected

The first preference votes received by each candidates and the stage at which any candidate was elected.

Rejected votes

These are the number of total ballot papers that were rejected as void and not counted:

Election results data

What it is

This is the result of the election in Ward 9 Johnstone North, Kilbarchan, Howwood and Lochwinnoch.

There are 4 councillors elected.

The percentage poll was 49.8%. There were 5,821 valid papers and 136 rejected papers.

The quota of votes for a candidate to be elected is 1,165.

Who has been elected

The first preference votes received by each candidates and the stage at which any candidate was elected.

Rejected votes

These are the number of total ballot papers that were rejected as void and not counted:

Election results data

What it is

This is the result of the election in Ward 8 Johnstone South and Elderslie.

There are 4 councillors to be elected.

The percentage poll was 43.0%. There were 5,563 valid papers and 160 rejected papers.

The quota of votes for a candidate to be elected is 1,113.

Who has been elected

The first preference votes received by each candidates and the stage at which any candidate was elected.

Rejected votes

These are the number of total ballot papers that were rejected as void and not counted:

Election results data

What it is

This is the result of the election in Ward 7 Paisley Southwest.

There are 4 councillors elected.

The percentage poll was 45.0%. There were 5,264 valid papers and 135 rejected papers.

The quota of votes for a candidate to be elected is 1,053.

Who has been elected

The first preference votes received by each candidates and the stage at which any candidate was elected.

Rejected votes

These are the number of total ballot papers that were rejected as void and not counted:

Election results data