Council Plan Purpose of the Council Plan

This plan is the council’s key plan, and it sets out our main priorities for the council between 2023 to 2027.

It includes some important actions and services that the council, alongside all local authorities must deliver. We want to make sure that these services are the best they can be, reflecting the improvement journey that we have been on over the past few years in response to:

  • The External Assurance Review commissioned by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) in Summer 2021 incorporating: 
    • The Ada Burns External Assurance Review
    • Governance (September 2021)
    • The CIPFA Local Government Finance Review (November 2021).
  • The Local Government Association
  • Corporate Peer Challenge (March 2022).
  • The need for the council to set a clear vision for the organisation we need to become to best serve our local communities.

The Council Plan is the next phase of Wirral’s Improvement Plan, which was developed in 2022 in response to, and incorporated the recommendations of, the External Assurance Review Reports and the LGA Peer Challenge. The plan is supported by and aligns with our Medium-Term Financial Strategy (MTFS).