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 Liverpool Strategic Innovation and Improvement Plan

In November 2007 Liverpool City Council received a one star rating for its Use of Resource followed by a Corporate Assessment from its Audit Commission inspectors that identified a number of areas of weakness.  Inspectors said that the council needed to sharpen the focus of its ambitions, improve its delivery and money management and establish a healthier corporate culture.

The Comprehensive Performance Assessment published in February 2008 awarded the authority one star overall - one of only two authorities in the country.

The Council responded by pulling together a team of local government specialists - The Liverpool Strategic Innovation and Improvement Group (MS Word [36.5Kb] opens in new window) - who worked with the authority to initially, devise and then oversee our progress on an improvement plan - The Liverpool Strategic Innovation and Improvement Plan - to strengthen its corporate capacity.

On the 23 rd September 2009 - after 18 months of intensive work by the council - the LSIIG agreed that the actions in the improvement plan had been completed, and the authority had in place embedded arrangements to ensure its ongoing improvement. Consequently in signing off the council's exit report entitled 'Getting better - with a little help from our friends' (PDF [638.1Kb] opens in new window) they agreed that their job was now complete and disbanded. (evidential links will be added to the exit report in the next week or so).