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Our shared day-to-day focus

  • Healthy, motivated and flexible staff with the right skills, values and behaviours to work in partnership with people and places.
  • Strong political leadership, intelligence-led decision-making, strategies and policies.
  • Getting the basics right, with robust systems, processes and governance that make best use of available resources.
  • Collaborative partnership working to inform and shape priorities and action across the public, private and community sectors in Kirklees.

Tracking our shared impact:

  • % employees who agree they are happy in their job
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  • overall efficiency and effectiveness of council plan areas of focus.

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