Corporate Plan

The constraint on resources in the borough is a long-term reality. Consequently, the need to achieve greater levels of efficiency and effectiveness, and to continually improve, is an ever-present requirement. Our ambition is to ensure that we progress our improvement and recovery to ensure that Thurrock Council is self-governing and fulfils its best value duty in the shortest time possible.

Through this Corporate Plan, we build on our Improvement and Recovery Plan (IRP) and our change programme and articulate in detail our plan to transform and improve – in leadership, in culture, in service delivery and in the governance and financial management environment. We are committed to working differently not simply out of necessity but because working differently will enable us to develop and implement new delivery models and partnerships that can more effectively deliver the services our residents and communities need.

Our suite of improvement outcomes, detailed in our IRP, speak to the behaviours and approach we need to adopt, not least to improve the confidence of our employees and partners. We build on these outcomes in this plan through the articulation of our values and behaviours. We will apply these values to all we seek to do through this plan to be open about what we need to do well and consequently how others experience our improvement.

Corporate Plan pages

Contents:

• Foreword
• Purpose of the Corporate Plan
• Building on our improvement and recovery plans
• Our purpose
• Our approach
• Our values
• Our 2024-2029 plan and priorities
• An enabling council
• People
• Place
• Delivering our plan