Vision, aims and priorities
Our vision
Liverpool City Council is committed to working in partnership from a basis of sound financial and strategic planning to achieve a thriving international city that can compete on a world stage as a place to live, work and visit.
To do this we will pursue three long-term aims, to be underpinned by ten priority themes reflecting the ambition, challenge and complexity of Liverpool.
Aim 1: Grow the city's economy
- Make Liverpool a first choice for investment and growth by working with the private, not-for-profit and public sectors quickly and effectively, with an emphasis on quality of infrastructure.
- Promote enterprise, trade and jobs.
- Exploit the city's wider cultural advantage to attract and retain visitors, workers and residents.
Aim 2: Develop our communities
- Provide sustainable communities through access to decent homes and best practice in environment management including, recycling, street cleansing and environmental enforcement against dereliction and environmental detractors.
- Challenge crime and antisocial behaviour, safeguarding young people from becoming perpetrators or victims.
- Increase peoples' sense of influence in decisions affecting their lives and communities through an open, fair and accountable neighbourhood-driven processes.
Aim 3: Empower our residents
- Ensure safeguarding and inclusion of the most needy and excluded groups in the city providing equality and real opportunity for improvement and enhanced quality of life.
- Confront barriers to employment and training through lack of access, deprivation, discrimination and poor health to increase the proportion of the city's labour force in employment.
- Developing first rate education and training from early years to increase the skill base of our workforce and further position Liverpool as a prime destination for graduate retention.
Visit the council's 'corporate plan aims and priorities pages' to see how we are working towards achieving our aims and priorities.
Note: From 2010/11 onwards, some of the priorities in aims 1 and 3 have been changed/deleted.
Our new values and principles
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We take pride in our city and our achievements and are committed to working together for the benefit to citizens, customers and the residents of Liverpool.
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We are committed to providing the best services we can.
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We recognise diverse viewpoints and will communicate clearly and openly about our decisions and actions, including the reasons for those decisions and the outcome of any consultation.
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We will work in a manner that reflects integrity and a sense of corporate and environmental responsibility.
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We will act with respect and courtesy at all times and this will be demonstrated in our actions and our communications. We will strive to resolve issues at the earliest opportunity.
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We will promote these principles through leadership and example.