Vision, aims, priorities and values
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.
Aims
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, attract investment through developing the city's co-ordination and offer across the city region to provide scale, connectivity and sustainability of its economy.
- Increase business density and gross value added (GVA) beyond national levels for city regions to deliver an environment which provides opportunity, employment and well-being for our citizens, business and investors.
- Exploit the city's wider cultural advantage to attract and retain visitors, workers and residents.
2. 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 ensure provision of a highly skilled workforce.
- Developing first rate education and training from early years and further position Liverpool as a prime destination for postgraduate research.
3. Develop our communities
- Increase peoples' sense of influence in decisions affecting their lives and communities through an open, fair and accountable neighbourhood-driven processes.
- Challenge crime and antisocial behaviour safeguarding young people from becoming perpetrators or victims.
- 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.
Values
As employees of Liverpool City Council we are committed to:
- placing customers at the heart of everything we do
- communicating honestly and openly with customers and colleagues at all times
- being personally accountable for our actions and their consequences
- recognising and promoting people's individual qualities irrespective of age, gender, race, sexual orientation and disability
- taking personal responsibility and recognising and respecting the contribution of all colleagues
- having pride in all our achievements.
Last updated March 2008.