Council plan 2030

Our priorities for the next 5 years will be:

• Ensuring the council is financially sustainable, with a balanced Medium Term Financial Plan, and annual accounts that are timely, accurate, true and fair.
• Continuing to lobby central government for a fairer funding system that recognises the level of poverty and need that we have here in Hartlepool.
• Reviewing the senior officer structure to ensure maximum efficiency.
• Reforming our electoral system to make savings and bring stability to the Council.
• Bringing together stakeholders from all sectors through the Hartlepool Partnership to drive a shared strategic vision.
• Developing a Residents Forum to ensure the views of local people are heard.
• Delivering accessible communications which are aligned to the priorities of the Council and our communities.
• Providing a Council website that is accessible and becomes the default option to contact the council.
• Implementing a digital and IT transformation strategy that will continue to evolve and ensure that we have a modern, fully enabled and efficient workforce.
• Transforming the Council into a modern, data informed organisation where data empowers us to make informed decisions, enhance service quality, foster community engagement, optimise resource allocation, plan for the future, embrace innovation and promote transparency.
• Delivering a strategic and operational workforce plan which enables the Council to focus resources on key skills to support talent growth, apprenticeship planning, succession planning, recruitment and retention and risk management in the workforce and support strategic workforce planning.
• Supporting the health and wellbeing of our workforce.
• Ensuring our workforce has the foundations to deliver and develop the best service performance possible for the benefit of the Hartlepool community.
• Undertaking a review of Council buildings and assets to ensure that they meet the needs of residents and the organisation now and in the future.