Issue - meetings

Report of the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance and Transformation is attached.

The Leader and Cabinet Member for Strategic Growth presented the Corporate Plan 2026/27 on behalf of the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance and Transformation.

In 2020 the ambitious LET’S do it! Community Strategy for Bury was launched, setting out a vision for the borough through to 2030: to stand out as a place that is achieving faster economic growth than the national average, with lower than national average levels of deprivation.

Since then, both Bury Council and the wider Team Bury Partnership have worked together to transform their collective response to public service reform and to increase focus on the seven high level outcomes committed to within the Strategy. There is now a much stronger “golden thread” that binds the collective endeavour across the partnership.

The 2026/27 Corporate Plan sets out the Council’s?strategic priorities and delivery?objectives?for the?financial year?and our role?in?delivering?the overarching vision of the?borough’s?LET’S do it! Community Strategy.

The Corporate Plan has been designed to continue to reflect three central priorities and key enabling functions with a streamlined set of objectives. The three priorities: Improving Childrens Lives, Driving Inclusive Growth and Tackling Inequalities overlay the “business as usual” departmental functions which are described separately in service planning documents. In addition, key enabler objectives are described which support the significant transformation agenda that the organisation has planned over the next 12 months alongside the continuing improvement work to be monitored through the Governance and Assurance Board.

Decision:
Cabinet:

Approved the Corporate Plan for 2026/27 and accompanying draft key performance indicators and therefore approving the strategic priorities and delivery objectives for the year. 

Reasons for the decision:

To set the strategic vision of the organisation for the next year and enable transparency and robust monitoring of performance and delivery of the Corporate Plan and associated improvement activity.

Alternative options considered and rejected:

Not applicable