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About Sheffield City Council
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Vision
For the past four years the Council's vision has been constant:
- To be among the best managed Councils, providing the best quality services in the country.
- To work in active partnership with the community to regenerate Sheffield and improve the quality of life for all its residents.
Executive Management Team
The Executive Management Team (EMT) provides strategic direction to the authority. It deals with key corporate issues and strategic service issues. It makes decisions, formulates recommendations for the political leadership, and gives a steer on policy issues where this is necessary.
EMT can make managerial decisions on how the council operates or on the application of policy that has already been politically agreed, but not set new policy which is the role of elected members. Issues that go to EMT that require a political decision then go onto a Cabinet Management Team/EMT meeting, then onto to Cabinet, and where necessary onto a meeting of Full Council.
Achievements to date
Stonewall
In January 2007 it was announced by Stonewall that Sheffield Council is amongst the top 10 highest scorers of employers in Stonewall's annual Workplace Equality Index. Our score has improved from 80% last year to 88% this year.
Beacon Status
Sheffield is one of only seven authorities to achieve two Beacon awards this year - 'Delivering Cleaner Air' and 'Promoting financial inclusion and tackling over-indebtedness.'
Investors in People
Sheffield City Council was first recognised as an Investor in People in June 1999 and was awarded the prestigious ‘Outstanding Investor in People’ (IiP) award in 2000. The Council conducts an internal review of its IIP commitments annually.
Charter Mark
30 of the Council’s services have been awarded Charter Mark status resulting in Sheffield City Council becoming fully accredited to the Charter Mark Standard.
Other Achievements
Sheffield City Council won Council of the Year in 2005 at the prestigious LGC (Local Government Chronicle) Awards. This was in recognition to improvements in both Council services and the regeneration of Sheffield itself.
The following links provide an overview of the key priorities of Sheffield City Council and the results of our Comprehesive Performance Assessment.
Downloads
Details of the political makeup of Sheffield City Council 2007 (31.5 KB)
Summary information on the Sheffield Corporate Plan 2007-2010. Further information is avaliable in the main link above. (28 KB)
Diagram detailing the main Council priorities 2007-2010 (64.5 KB)
Executive Management Team Structure Chart (57.5 KB)
The Make up of Sheffield taken from the 2001 Census (19.5 KB)
Executive Summary and Report from the 2007 Comprehensive Performance Assessment (145 KB)
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