The Council's current Corporate Plan, covering the period from 2008/09 to 2011/12 was approved and published on 7th February 2008. In March 2010, the plan was refreshed, and developed to clarify what the Council is seeking to achieve while also responding to a number of existing drivers.

The Corporate Plan is set out in four distinct themes:

• Making the Environment Cleaner, Safer, Greener
• Helping the Economy Adapt, Grow, Prosper
• Giving People & Communities Aspiration, Pride, Respect
• Ensuring Council Services Listen, Care, Deliver

The refreshed document also identified a number of specific service and organisation priorities which will receive particular focus in 2010/11.

There are:

Service Priorities

1. Work with partners to seek a sustained reduction in crime and anti-social behaviour and improvement in perceptions of community safety
2. Anticipate and respond to ongoing recessionary impacts, build resilience and prepare local people and businesses for recovery
3. To facilitate and support the regeneration of Kirkby town centre
4. Refocus services to ensure they satisfactorily address the equality and diversity challenge
5. Work to improve public satisfaction with the local area by improving service quality to the Council’s customers and enhancing engagement through improved communications
6. Improve the Benefits service in keeping with the needs of the local area.

Organisational Priorities

1. Refocusing resources in light of the worldwide financial recession to ensure financial stability over the medium term
2. Deliver improvements in performance management to ensure a positive contribution to the CAA and which delivers consistently above average standards across all Council services.
3. Improve arrangements for accounts production in support of improvements to the Council’s Use of Resources assessment.
4. Build capacity (through all management tiers) by improved workforce planning, managing a reduction in sickness absence and reducing reliance on interims, consultants and agency use.

Download the Corporate Plan Refresh 2009/10 to 2011/12.

The Corporate Plan includes a companion document which details the council’s performance against all of its performance indicators as well as providing national figures which allow us to compare our performance with that of all other district councils.

The Corporate Plan companion document can be viewed from this page.