Overview
Welcome to our Corporate Plan 2024 – 2026
Through this plan we will introduce you to the things that we’ll do to make Calderdale a better place for everyone.
We have published this plan at a crucial time in Calderdale’s story. The year 2024 is the borough’s 50th birthday, our Year of Culture, the culmination of our Vision 2024 for Calderdale, and the start of our journey towards a new 10-year aspiration, Vision 2034.
Throughout the plan, we hope you get a sense of the hope and ambition that runs through every priority and every bit of work that we do. We want you to feel this hope and ambition too, and to feel part of the future of Calderdale.
Whether you live, work, learn, visit or do business in Calderdale, we want you to enjoy your time here – to thrive, be healthy, happy and successful, to live the fullest life and be your true self in our diverse communities.
We’re an honest place, and know there have been, and will be more, challenges along the way. But we look after each other. We’re strong, we come back from difficulties. We don’t have all the answers, but we want to keep learning and improving. And we’ll do it together. That’s the Calderdale spirit.
The next two years that the Corporate Plan covers – and the next 10 years of our Vision 2034 – are our opportunity to be bold. Transformation is core to our organisation, and we want people to be part of it, with their voices heard and playing an active role in shaping the future.
We’ll also do the ‘basics’ well. The Council is in the background of everyone’s lives – keeping roads moving, people safe and bins emptied; in the foreground of some caring for children and adults who need extra help; and this will change throughout people’s lives. We’ll spend limited money wisely for the benefit of Calderdale, ensuring we get the best value. This is not just about saving money – though that is important – but making sure people feel the benefit of public services in their lives.
Our ‘good’ Ofsted rating in spring 2024 was independent recognition of this. Looking after children and young people is one of the most important things we do and achieving this high rating despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the rising cost of living and national recruitment and retention issues, is a real testament to our staff and partnerships with local people, other organisations and community groups.
Beyond the ‘basics’, Calderdale is a place of creativity, trade and innovation. A place of great opportunity and inclusion. You just have to look up, look out and look within to see the beauty of our buildings, our landscapes and the strength of our character. We have long known that these make Calderdale unique, and now the many film crews have seen this for themselves and are bringing our borough to the world’s attention through TV and film.
We’re making the most of this, and the economic benefits it brings, so we can proudly shout, “Happy 50th birthday, Calderdale, it’s our time to shine!”
Councillor Jane Scullion, Leader of Calderdale Council
