Strategy and Policy at East Devon
Long term vision
Our vision is to be a publicly acknowledged inspirational Council with sound performance and people management frameworks. We aim to be first on the list of partner organisations who seek to develop partnership arrangements with ethical and inspirational partners. We aim to be a Council which works cohesively with a number of partners to increase our capacity for the delivery of tangibly better services which represent great value for the people of East Devon.
As an inspirational Council we aim to feature in the top 20 Best Councils and to ensure we attract talent from all over the UK and be an ‘employer of choice’ in the local community.
The position now and key challenges we face
We have played a prominent part in many partnerships, including those with regional and national bodies, in agreeing the developments to the West of the District (the new community at Cranbrook, Skypark and the Science Park). Throughout the Napoli disaster, we established ourselves as a pivotal partner particularly with Devon County Council and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency..
The Council has in place a robust performance management framework which ensures we deliver what we say we will deliver. This was praised by the Audit Commission in its 2007 annual letter. There is a continuing imperative for us to demonstrate good value for money in the way we deliver our services and we now need to develop a more rigorous framework for testing this.
