Lambeth Corporate Plan launched

After a period of analysis and planning, we have now released our Corporate Plan for 2006-2009. The plan sets out the council?s aspirations, vision and strategy for achieving the things that matter most to the people of Lambeth.

Central to the plan are the administration?s three priority outcomes:

• delivering high quality services that focus on individuals' needs and represent value for money;
• tackling inequality and social exclusion; and
• engaging more closely with Lambeth's citizens so that people's needs are listened to and acted upon.

The plan also sets out the top 12 priority initiatives (including expanding youth provision, reducing gun crime, delivering on decent homes and increasing the number of school places).

Alongside these are our strategic projects and programmes, the most important things for us to achieve. It is by successfully delivering these will we continue the improvements we all want, and the quality services our customers expect.

The Corporate Plan is part of the council's process of continuous improvement, and will guide us on the next stage of the journey to being rated ?excellent? in the Audit Commission's Continuous Performance Assessment (CPA) - with four stars in four years. The plan will be subject to continuous review to ensure we deliver what is needed. This year's plan will be the basis of the work to develop next year's version, which will begin immediately and will align with the council's overall planning cycle.