3  OUR VISION AND PURPOSE

The Council’s current Cabinet will lead the administration until the next local government elections in May 2022. The Cabinet launched a set of commitments to the organisation, to staff and to communities early on in its tenure, which are incorporated into the Council’s Corporate Plan 2018-2023.

The Cabinet commitments are: -

  • We will always do our best to protect jobs and services within the current challenging financial climate.
  • We will build on Caerphilly County Borough Council’s reputation as an innovative, high performing local authority.
  • We will ensure we have an engaged and motivated workforce.
  • We will always strive to ensure Caerphilly County Borough Council delivers value for money in everything it does.
  • We will help protect the most vulnerable people in our society and make safeguarding a key priority.
  • We will always welcome feedback and consider the views of residents, staff and other key stakeholders.
  • We will be open, honest and transparent in everything we do.
These commitments will be an integral element of the emerging service transformation programme, and future changes to service delivery models will also need to align with the 6 Well-being Objectives  set out in the Corporate Plan 2018-2023, namely: -
  • Improve education opportunities for all.
  • Enable employment.
  • Address the supply, condition and sustainability of homes throughout the County Borough and provide advice, assistance or support to help improve people’s health and well-being.
  • Promote a modern, integrated and sustainable transport system that increases opportunity, promotes prosperity and minimises the adverse impacts on the environment.
  • Creating a County Borough that supports a healthy lifestyle in accordance with the sustainable development principle in the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act.
  • Support citizens to remain independent and improve their well-being.
Image collage showing Chartist Bridge, Ty Penallta Office Building and Man and Woman walking, holding hands and smiling

Our Well-being Objectives are reflected in, and support, those of our partners on the Caerphilly Public Services Board. Across the public and voluntary sector we are working in collaboration to secure the well-being of our future generations.

The new operating model has a clear purpose - “to create capacity and foresight to develop solutions to some of the County Borough’s biggest challenges, ensuring the Council understands and responds to the changing needs and priorities of our communities”.

The real strength and impact of the new approach set out in our transformation strategy will only be realised if we are all collectively working towards the same aims and objectives. We have approximately 9,000 staff across the Council and we serve approximately 180,000 residents. We have a  significant business community located across the County Borough, 86 schools and many community groups.

‘Working Together for the Good of All’ has been the authority’s mission statement since it was created in 1996. This concept is still relevant, but is now mainly used in a civic context.

We are all very proud of our County Borough and each of us has an equal role to play in helping shape it. It is this collective approach that we wish to harness and reinforce through our new delivery approach as #TeamCaerphilly - Better Together.

Our new approach will reflect the ‘team ethos’ that we will instil throughout the organisation and indeed the wider County Borough and our communities.

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