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Home Your council Our Council Plan 2025 to 2029 Strategic objectives

Strategic objectives

As part of a new approach to integrated strategic planning, designed to achieve a closer integration of service and financial planning, the council have identified a set of 24 strategic objectives. These outline the key activity we must deliver to achieve our vision and outcomes.

What we will achieve over the next 4 years:

People - empowered communities where people live safe, happy, healthy and independent lives

  • Sufficiency of accommodation to ensure children are cared for in the right home at the right time.
  • Delivery of improved outcomes for those with special educational needs and disabilities through timely analysis of need and support services in collaboration with stakeholders.
  • A good choice of affordable adult social care support available across the county with a focus on people's experiences and improving quality.
  • Support for people to live their best lives independently at home, connected to the community and local resources, and stepping in with more help where needed.
  • Support for people to recover and regain stability, independence and control following a personal crisis or illness.
  • Working across the health and social care system with partners, carers and residents to provide support in a safe, supportive homelike setting.
  • Support for financial wellbeing by maximising income, supporting good work and addressing poverty, and reducing demand across council services.
  • Promoting good mental health, preventing early deaths, and improving healthy life expectancy by tackling health inequalities and addressing the key risk factors of health through preventative activity.
  • Enabling the best start in life by working across the council and with partners to enable families to thrive.

Place - prosperous, green and sustainable places with opportunities for all

  • Working to address the causes and adapting to the impacts of climate change through our activities.
  • Supporting the East Midlands Combined County Authority to drive inclusive and sustainable growth in the Derbyshire economy, including the creation of a new regional transport organisation.
  • Delivering a safe, effective, efficient and innovative highways service, including the completion of the full transformation of the highways service itself.
  • Leading the stewardship of the natural and built environment, and delivering national policy and regulatory requirements relating to waste, nature recovery and heritage.

The council - a resident focused, efficient and effective organisation delivering value for money

  • Developing new operating models to provide enhanced services to children and families, strengthening workforce development and exploring commercial opportunities.
  • Strengthening the effectiveness of strategic partnerships to drive improved outcomes for children.
  • Recognising and valuing carers and our social care workforce, and the contribution they make.
  • Embedding co-production to strengthen true partnership between people who use Adult Social Care services, carers and professionals to deliver better outcomes
  • Deploying and embedding the customer experience strategy and community engagement and consultation approaches aligned to delivery of our vision, strategic objectives and portfolio of change.
  • Fully exploring and implementing the opportunity to create a single unitary council for Derbyshire through Local Government Reorganisation as set out in the English devolution white paper.
  • Delivering our 4 year budget savings programme to achieve financial sustainability with a focus on delivering £37.5 million savings in 2025 to 2026 (year 1 to be refreshed annually).
  • Developing and engaging our workforce to enable us to achieve our vision and deliver our strategic objectives and portfolio of change.
  • Improving efficiency and integration across the council through the centralisation and redesign of support services and digital and financial transformation.
  • Supporting and delivering increased efficiency and effectiveness through best value service reviews to achieve service improvement, redesigning or using different delivery models including opportunities for digitisation and automation.
  • Transforming our property portfolio, so that it is affordable, sustainable and consists of only those assets required to deliver our priorities.