Our Corporate Plan drives all our work, policies and performance management.
Through performance management, we will track our success against the aims of this Corporate Plan and the Council’s priorities. We base this on the difference the Council and our partner organisations are making to people’s lives, and how we’re using our resources to deliver our priorities.
Corporate performance
We use around 100 key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure how we are doing compared to our own ambitions and to other similar local authorities.
Internal governance
We take value for money seriously because we understand the need to spend public money carefully and on things that matter most to local people. Using the Corporate Plan as a focus for our work, we can measure how public money makes a difference to our communities.
Our Corporate Leadership Team, Cabinet and Overview and Scrutiny Board regularly review progress and our performance management measures, which are published every July (with a half-yearly progress report every December). This information is available on our Dataworks website to show where we are performing well, the challenges we are facing and how we are working to overcome these.
Independent view
We are committed to continuously improving what we do to make life in Calderdale better for everyone. As part of this, we invited the Local Government Association (LGA) to do a Corporate Peer Challenge review in February 2023. The review report shows the strengths and recommendations identified, and how we are making improvements.
Our “clear and impressive progress” and “willingness and drive to improve” were highlighted in the LGA’s Corporate Peer Challenge progress review in November 2023. The review team highlighted many strengths, including our financial management, the Year of Culture, the Local Plan, our strong relationships with local voluntary and community groups, and our alignment of people, finance, digital and transformation.
