Each year the Council agrees a set of corporate priorities to focus on. Four of these priorities are managed through our Partnership Boards - the formal way we
work with our partners. These priorities are linked to national government priorities through the Local Area Agreement (LAA). Five of these priorities form part of
the 3 and 5 year 'Change Programmes'.
The current corporate priorities are:
Each priority contributes to the delivery of the council's ambition.
Children and Young People
The aims of this Partnership Board are that every child and young person should:
- Have the best possible start in life
- Be physically, mentally and emotionally healthy
- Be brought up in a caring, safe and secure environment
- Be supported into adulthood
- Acquire the knowledge, skills and experience to make a positive contribution throughout life
- Be supported to take full advantage of all opportunities to acheive their full potential
- Have their rights respected and upheld, learn to respect the rights of others
- Be consulted and listened to and heard
- Be able to grow up and contribute positively to a fair, equitable and sustainable community that values and celebrates diversity
- Be happy and have fun
Adults and Older People
The aims of this Partnership Board are that:
- People are making healthy choices
- People are taking control of their health
- The Partnership provides consistent messages
- The health support provided is sensitive to communities
Safer Stronger Communities
The aims of this Partnership Board include:
- An increased sense of belonging and confidence whithin and between communities and between people of different ages
- Reduced crime, bringing more offenders to justice, supporting victims of crime and communities
- Improved satisfaction by residents about their neighbourhoods and improvements to public spaces and places
- Greater real engagement with communities and an enhanced range of community led activities and volunteering opportunities
Regeneration and Sustainable Development
The aims of this Partnership board are:
- Delivering regeneration outcomes relevant to locality needs
- Fully joined up plans with partners
- Changing ways we deliver on skills
- A low carbon Kirklees
Reducing Health Inequalities
The aim of this change programme is that by 2012 we will have made significant progress
in tackling the big things that can reduce the gaps in health experience across Kirklees.
Green Kirklees
The aim of this change programme is to:
- Raise environmental awareness and change people's behaviour in respect of climate change
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the Council and within the district
- Improve energy management and raise environmental standards of buildings
- Support the business community in working together on carbon reduction
Customer Excellence
The aim of this change programmes is to:
- Provide a more responsive service to our citizens, with staff exercising judgement and suggesting improvements
- Ensure services are designed around the customer experience, are more flexible, responsive and sensitive to the diverse needs of communities
- Use customer feedback as the key measure of customer satisfaction
- Develop a 'One-Council and partnership' approach to customer excellence ensuring improved and more cost effective services
Working Locally
The aim of this change programme is to acheive:
- Stronger understanding of the diversity of communities, driving the strategic planning of public agencies across the district
- Greater engagement with local communities
- Effective and creative responses to people's needs, through better coordinated and joined up working at a local level
- Locality working becoming a powerful tool to take forward the shared agendas of diversity, cohesion and customer excellence
- An integrated approach to plan the future shape of the places where people and their families want to live in 15-20 years time
Organisational Capacity
This change programme emphasises our innovation and efficiency. The aims are to acheive:
- A 'One-Council' approach to everything we do to improve performance
- Making the most of our people - allowing staff to acheive their full potential, contribute and make a difference
- Making the most of our resources
- Reducing barriers to partnership working
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