Welcome to our corporate plan 2008/11
This plan provides a statement of the council's ambitions, with specific targets, to improve services and living standards within the city over the next three years.
Liverpool faces a brighter future, in this its capital of culture year, than it has done for decades. The £5 billion of investment flowing into the city's infrastructure, businesses and housing, and our rising productivity and tourism numbers illustrate how we have repositioned Liverpool as a place to create wealth, live and visit.
The attention given to our recent Capital of Culture launch has highlighted our renaissance, projecting the city's vitality to people around the world. But to strengthen our offer we, and our partners, must do more to grow the economy, empower our people and develop our communities against a backdrop of improved services at a lower cost. So we will focus on:
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supporting business growth - to improve Merseyside's ability to attract investors and employers we are strengthening our cross-boundary work with neighbouring authorities to attract inward investment and support business growth. We will reduce the workless experienced in our most deprived wards so they gain most from our expanding economy and the predicted 23,000 new jobs due in Liverpool by 2010. Our top performing 4 star benefits service will continue to make a significant contribution by providing a fast and efficient service to claimants who's circumstances change.
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education, health and care - I'm proud to say that Liverpool's pupils, supported by our 3 star education service, turned in their best ever performance at GCSE level. The targets in this plan show how we intend to keep driving up educational attainment - a factor critical to wealth creation and the regeneration of this city. The ban on smoking in public places, introduced nationally last summer, which Liverpool championed, will help reduce rates of heart disease and cancer in the city. We will continue to support our residents adopt healthier lifestyles and our 3 star adult care services will be working hard to help vulnerable people maintain their independence.
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safety, environment and housing - car theft, burglary and repeat offending numbers are falling. Our 3 star environmental services have improved street cleansing and our new public housing partner Liverpool Mutual Homes (LMH) is progressing its preparations to improve its 20,000 homes with the £300m unlocked by last year's successful tenants' ballot. We, however, have more to do to address anti-social behaviour and to meet our residents' expectations for a cleaner, greener and better quality environment.
On behalf of all elected members I want to thank our staff and our partners for these and all our other achievements over the last year.
Despite the substantial progress we have made in improving our front line services we need to strengthen our corporate capacity. Reports from our inspectors at the end of last year reinforced this. We need to improve our finances, develop better working practices between councillors and officers and have a clearer vision and ambition. We are vigorously addressing these issues. To strengthen our capacity we have engaged local government specialists and established a robust improvement plan.
This, the council's corporate plan, evidences how we have streamlined our aims and priorities so that they focus more effectively on the things that really matter to the people of Liverpool.
With these changes, and our staff and partners' ongoing support, I am confident that we will continue to improve the quality of life for our residents and meet our aspiration of Liverpool becoming a truly international city.
Downloadable version of our corporate plan 2008/09 - 10/11
Downloadable versions of the whole corporate plan, including the appendix, are available on the CP downloads page