Our key objectives

Stronger council

Future workforce objectives

• Enhance organisational resilience by addressing skills and experience gaps across all service areas.
• Offer opportunities, training, and development to attract and retain talent, improving performance and service delivery.
• Implement new delivery models, including partnerships and shared services, to transform EFDC’s functions.

Shared services and partnership working objectives

• Develop a shared service model to serve multiple councils, enhancing performance and customer satisfaction.
• Retain specialisms within our shared services and attract quality people with challenging roles that work across councils efficiently.

Finance and governance objectives

• Maintaining low Council Tax, embracing commercial opportunities, and achieving long-term financial sustainability.
• Optimising decision making and risk management through strong governance and best practice.
• Being accountable through transparent finance, governance and decision making