In the local government funding settlement for 2024/25, the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), now known as the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, required that all councils produce a 'Productivity Plan' as part of their plans to focus attention on productivity improvements.
In their letter to Chief Executives in April 2024, they laid out guidance for the plans to be a short summary of existing and planned initiatives to drive and deliver improvements to productivity.
The content of the plan covers four themes:
- Transformation of services to make better use of resources
- Opportunities to take advantage of advances in technology and make better use of data to inform decision making and service design
- How the council considers ways to reduce wasteful spend within systems
- Barriers preventing activity that Government can help to reduce or remove
Our response is outlined in the Productivity Plan below.
