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Our Delivery Plan
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At Babergh and Mid Suffolk, we have been delivering services for our communities and districts since coming together in 2011, and before this, in total for 50 years since 1974.
In 2023 we had new political administrations, leading to our new strategic plans – 'Our Plan for Babergh' and the 'Mid Suffolk Plan'. We still deliver the services that local government are here to deliver, but this applied a new lens to our work and a new purpose that Our Delivery Plan sets out.
This plan also delivers against the Government's missions and Outcomes Framework, and takes us forward into Local Government Reorganisation in 2028. And whilst the councils may change structure, local government will continue to deliver the priorities and approaches our communities and places need to improve the quality of people's lives.
1. Our Purpose
2. Our Missions
3. Our Foundations
4. Our Approach
5. Our Service Planning
Our Purpose
Stewardship and leadership of our places for now, and the future
Stewardship
- Responsible management
- Entrusted
- Custodians for future generations
Leadership
- Guiding
- Inspiring and enabling
- Trusting and trusted
Our Places
- Our strategic approach
- Uniqueness
- Individual needs
Our Missions
Create and maintain thriving and resilient local communities
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Mission 1
Connected and
Fairer Society
Fairer Society
We want to see a better connected and fairer society, that is strong and resilient to the challenges faced in our districts.
Outcomes we will look to achieve:
- Residents who can access excellent services and support
- Reduced inequalities for our residents
- Empowered communities who can shape the places they live
- Improved health and well-being for our residents
- Communities that are safe and secure
Mission 2
Safe and Affordable
Housing
Housing
Everyone deserves somewhere to live, in an affordable and high-quality home, to build stable, healthy and fulfilling lives.
Outcomes we will look to achieve:
- The right homes are delivered in the right places at the right time
- Our tenanted homes are safe and healthy places to live in
Mission 3
Greener Places
and Jobs
and Jobs
We want to help create greener, more sustainable districts, that seek to address the dual challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change, whilst ensuring all our residents have access to clean and green public spaces.
Outcomes we will look to achieve:
- Recovery of the natural environment
- Enabling nature recovery and enhancing biodiversity
- Meeting net zero carbon emissions by 2030, and supporting climate change mitigation and resilience
- Delivering sustainable, inclusive growth focused on people, prosperity and place
Our Foundations
Enabling us to be effective, efficient and well-run in achieving our purpose
Structure and Processes
Ensuring our own governance, accountability and assurance is in place, enabling the organisation to achieve what it needs to.
People and Culture
Making sure our employees can learn and grow, and are encouraged, energised and enabled to deliver our ambitions.
Data and Technology
Supporting our organisation to provide the right data, evidence and technology.
To achieve our missions, we need strong foundations
Across the organisation, our leadership teams, delivery teams and back-office functions will all enable one another, and be enabled, by ensuring we have the right foundations.
Our Approach
Informed by how we want to operate and what we need to do
Informed by wanting to…
Deliver quality, reliable council services
- Putting the customer at the heart of everything we do
- Having a continuous improvement approach embedded across the organisation
- Designing positive, simple and helpful interactions
Ensure financial responsibility and viability
- Providing open and honest leadership, being responsible with our resources
- Harnessing strength of others by partnership working
- Being financially viable, whilst always prioritising use of our resources to have the greatest impact for our communities
Put sustainability and social justice at the heart of everything we do
- Prioritising and focusing on resident impact
- Influencing access to necessary services and facilities
- Leading by example to help our communities as they transition to a low-carbon future
Work with residents and partners to nurture engaged and resilient communities
- Thinking, planning and acting hyper-locally
- Supporting participatory democracy and empowering community-based solutions
- Listening to and collaborating with communities, the voluntary sector, and local businesses
Our Service Planning
The golden thread running through the whole organisation
We will develop service plans plans up to 2028, coupled with a continuous improvement approach embedded across the organisation.
This will ensure that every person in the organisation, and our partners, can see how our Missions translate into actions taken at the individual level.
We will make the connection to Our Missions and Our Approach in our Service Plans and then onto personal objectives.
This will ensure a continued focus on our priorities and how we deliver them.
We will monitor our service plans on an ongoing basis.
This will enable us to track progress throughout the organisation as we work towards delivery of Our Missions over the next 5 years.