About the Council
Wolverhampton City Council, leading, supporting and inspiring our city, proud to be of service today, rising to the challenges of tomorrow.
Our Core Values:
- Setting High Standards: we will achieve this by comparing and competing, monitoring and evaluating, reporting on achievements, valuing and developing our workers and involving stakeholders.
- Equality and Fairness: we value the contribution of all individuals and groups in the community. We recognise that diversity is an asset. We will ensure that access and opportunities are equally available to everyone and take steps to involve people who have previously been excluded.
- Building Partnerships: we will work with local communities, the voluntary sector, the business community and other agencies to deliver the best for Wolverhampton and secure a prosperous future for our City.
- Protecting the Environment: we will consider the implications of our actions for future generations. We will develop our strategies in consultation with local people.
- Honesty, Openness and Accountability: these qualities will be apparent in all of our actions at all times.
Our Strategic Priorities
- Delivering the best possible outcomes for children, young people and their families
- Making communities safer and stronger
- Improving the health and well-being of our communities
- Developing sustainable communities
- Becoming an excellent council
About Wolverhampton
The City of Wolverhampton is one with a richly diverse population and a history of welcoming new settlers from many cultures and backgrounds. Promoting community cohesion and building services around the needs of this diverse client base is a central driver of Council activity.
Over the last two decades the City has been through a process of growth and reinvention. The economic recession of the 1970s and 80s saw many key components of the City’s industrial base go into decline. A focus of the Council’s activities has been to encourage the development of small and medium sized businesses, particularly those with a technology base. A real challenge facing the Council and its partners is raising education and skill levels to meet the demands of the new industrial sector.
Wolverhampton is also a place with a strong sense of community including the towns of Bilston, Wednesfield and Tettenhall. These areas have long established distinct identity that reflect there unique history, economic and environmental characteristics. The Council has worked with these communities, through Area Forums, to find ways of developing services around local aspirations.
The City centre of Wolverhampton is the commercial, cultural and leisure focus for both the City and the sub-region. Developing the centre, attracting inward investment and promoting economic growth, has been a strategic priority of the Council for a number of years. There are currently development programmes on-line in the City centre to a value of over £200M. This compliments the work of the Council promoting the development of the City’s Cultural and Learning quarters. Promoting the City and its facilities across the region and sub-region is an important element of the Council’s wider economic objectives.
The City still faces very significant challenges. Closing economic, educational and health gaps, increasing the life chances of the most deprived, are objectives built into a wide range of core workstreams within the Council and between the Council and its partners.
It is this partnership work that has increasingly become the heart of delivering against these complex social, environmental and economic objectives. The Council has long recognised that no single organisation can tackle these mattes alone. This has led to a history of co-operative work across the city that draws together all major public agencies, the voluntary sector and key private sector partners.
A recognition of the need to maintain focus around the shared work with partners has led the Council to develop a revised Corporate Strategy around the Centre/Local Shared Priority Themes. The Council believes that these themes represent the fullest reflection of the medium term priorities for a City with the characteristics of Wolverhampton, and a Council acting as community leader with its partners to address the big issues facing our communities.
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