Action delivery plan
| Activity | Cabinet Member | End date |
|---|---|---|
| Adult Social Care Pathways - Trusted Providers | Adults’ Services & Health | October 2023 |
| As a member of Bexley's Local Care Partnership, contribute to development of a draft local plan for Primary Care | Adults’ Services & Health | March 2024 |
| As a member of Bexley's Local Care Partnership, contribute to development of a health & wellbeing vision for Bexley | Adults’ Services & Health | March 2024 |
| Implement care finder 'app' | Adults’ Services & Health | June 2023 |
| Implement requirements from Adult Social Care Reform White Paper | Adults’ Services & Health | March 2024 |
| Personalisation in care at home | Adults’ Services & Health | October 2022 |
| Personalisation in residential and nursing care | Adults’ Services & Health | TBC |
| Personalisation in services for people with a learning disability | Adults’ Services & Health | September 2024 |
| Personalisation in services for people with a physical disability | Adults’ Services & Health | February 2023 |
| Personalisation in transport services | Adults’ Services & Health | September 2023 |
| Preparing for Adulthood - develop local education options | Adults’ Services & Health | March 2024 |
| Refresh our Obesity Strategy and action plan | Adults’ Services & Health | 2025 |
| Review our Prevention Strategy | Adults’ Services & Health | Q4 2024 to 2025 |
| Support informal carers to undertake their caring role and to ensure that they can maintain a good quality of life | Adults’ Services & Health | Ongoing |
| Supported living accommodation for people with learning disabilities, mental health needs and for older people | Adults’ Services & Health | September 2023 |
| Work with partners to deliver health outreach in places like our community centres, children’s centres, libraries and schools | Adults’ Services & Health | Ongoing |
| Work with partners to establish Local Care Networks | Adults’ Services & Health | March 2024 |
| Working with partners, extend our virtual multi-disciplinary teams, to join up primary care, community and mental health, social care and our voluntary sector in localities | Adults’ Services & Health | Ongoing |
| Activity | Cabinet Member | End date |
|---|---|---|
| Build upon our new children's centre model to broaden early help available in line with Family Hub model | Children's Services | Q4 2022 to 2023 |
| Deliver the children's social care workforce strategy | Children's Services | 2024 |
| Extend prevention & early help services | Children's Services | Ongoing |
| Implement Contextual Safeguarding strategy | Children's Services | Ongoing |
| Implement Preparing for Adulthood strategy for children moving to adult social care services | Children's Services | Ongoing |
| Improve Contact Centre arrangements for children in our care | Children's Services | 2023 to 2024 |
| Maximise external investment opportunities for children's social care | Children's Services | Ongoing |
| Options for developing the youth services hub | Children's Services | Q3 2022 to 2023 |
| Projects to improve services for children with mental health needs | Children's Services | TBC |
| Respond to legislative and regulatory changes - children's social care | Children's Services | Ongoing |
| Review children's social care services to maintain good practice and quality | Children's Services | Ongoing |
| Scope supported living / care leavers housing required | Children's Services | Ongoing |
| Address schools SEN Funding with DfE | Education | Ongoing |
| Develop business plan for LECB | Education | Ongoing |
| Explore opportunities for a further school expansion project for young people with additional needs | Education | Ongoing |
| Host apprenticeship fairs | Education | Ongoing |
| Respond to legislative and regulatory changes - Children's services (education) | Education | Ongoing |
| Support all schools through our Strategic Education Partnership to help improve standards, keep children in education and ensure all pupils gain the best outcomes possible | Education | Ongoing |
| Activity | Cabinet Member | End date |
|---|---|---|
| Adopt an ethnical investment strategy | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q4 2022 to 2023 |
| Agree a workforce plan for each service | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q4 2022 to 2023 |
| Agree and implement our Strategic Asset Plan | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| BexleyCo schemes | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Carry out a review of income and expenditure | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Carry out deep dives to inform MTFS in services experiencing budget pressures | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q3 2022 to 2023 |
| Consider energy efficiency in decisions about our buildings | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Consider options to promote local procurement | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Create a customer services dashboard to monitor performance | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q2 2023 to 2024 |
| Define and deliver our digital strategy programme | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Deliver a workforce strategy to support recruitment, retention and development of staff | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q4 2022 to 2023 |
| Develop and launch a new Customer Service Strategy | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q1 2023 to 2024 |
| Develop and implement a refreshed Equalities & Inclusion Policy | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q4 Annual |
| Develop digital channels for customer contact | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Enhance our Project & Programme monitoring approach | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Quarterly |
| Improve options for residents when making payments | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q4 2022 |
| Lobby Whitehall on improving our resources and investment (PH, SEND, Business Rates, Funding Formula etc.) | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Refresh our ICT systems and hardware | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | 2023 |
| Review and redesign customer journeys for key services | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | October |
| Review of sales, fees and charges | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Annual Q3 |
| Review the Council's use of office space and other buildings | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q4 2022 to 2023 |
| Review the Performance & Wellbeing (appraisal) scheme for staff | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | August 2023 |
| Survey our buildings and agree investment required | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q3 2022 to 2023 |
| Understand the impact of high inflation and increased cost of living | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q3 2022 to 2023 |
| Understand the impact of the pandemic on residents and services | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q4 2022 to 2023 |
| Use data to identify improvements to our website | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Land and property acquisitions for future development | Growth | Ongoing |
| Review lease for Broadway shopping centre | Growth | Q2 2023 to 2024 |
| Deliver a sustainable MTFS | Leader of the Council | Annual Q4 |
| Activity | Cabinet Member | End date |
|---|---|---|
| Prioritise housing for local Bexley families | Communities & Housing | Ongoing |
| Provide support to residents to prevent homelessness | Communities & Housing | Ongoing |
| Review use of street properties for Temporary Accommodation | Communities & Housing | Q4 2023 to 2024 |
| Small grants programme for Jubilee | Communities & Housing | 2022 |
| We will support our volunteers and community champions | Communities & Housing | Ongoing |
| Work in partnership through our Strategic Housing Board to provide a flexible housing journey for those residents who want to own their own home | Communities & Housing | Ongoing |
| Adoption of Bexleyheath Masterplan | Growth | March 2023 |
| Adoption of Local Plan | Growth | 2023 |
| Consider increased use of Thames in support of growth | Growth | Ongoing |
| Continued delivery of the Erith regeneration programme | Growth | Ongoing |
| Create lifetime neighbourhoods by securing a variety of housing types and tenures at different densities, the provision of a range of high-quality local services and facilities and the development of safe, sustainable and accessible local transport links | Growth | Ongoing |
| Deliver Sidcup Storyhouse | Growth | 2022 |
| Deliver the National Restart Scheme to support Universal Credit claimants with the support they need to get a career | Growth | Ongoing |
| Delivery of technical skills curriculum for the construction industry in partnership with London South East Colleges | Growth | 15 years |
| Develop plans for use of affordable housing budget | Growth Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources |
2023 to 2024 |
| Investigate the opportunities of the green economy | Growth | Ongoing |
| Pursue any new funding opportunities to support local high streets and BIDs | Growth | Q4 2023 to 2024 |
| Review and update town centre strategy | Growth | December 2022 |
| Tailored programmes to support town centres & high streets (bringing in additional funding where possible) | Growth | Ongoing |
| Oppose ULEZ expansion | Leader of the Council | 2022 to 2023 |
| Add new household waste collections, e.g. electronic items or textiles | Places | 2023 to 2024 |
| Complete a 9 Borough project for open access fibre across London, led by Bexley | Places | 2023 |
| Continue to lobby for improved public transport links | Places | Ongoing |
| Continue zero tolerance of littering/flytipping - new enforcement contract tender | Places | January 2023 |
| Contract award for managing waste and recycling centres | Places | Q3 2022 to 2023 |
| Develop long-term plan for Hall Place, through management contract for events etc, then implement | Places | 2024 |
| Further develop food recycling through new proactive work, e.g. door to door surveys | Places | Ongoing |
| Increase capital investment in highways and footpaths | Places | 2026 |
| Increase EV charging points | Places | 2023 |
| Increase investment in grounds maintenance of parks, hedges, verges | Places | 2022 to 2023 |
| Increase investment in street services - waste collections, street cleaning | Places | 2022 to 2023 |
| Invest in parks and open spaces through Cory Environmental Fund for 4 parks; plus new Gov Levelling Up funding | Places | 2024 |
| Lobby for London-wide CCTV public safety network | Places | Ongoing |
| Open new libraries in Thamesmead and Sidcup | Places | 2022 |
| Refresh our approach to climate change | Places | Q4 2022 to 2023 |
| Refresh Street party policy | Places | 2022 to 2023 |
| Review car park use and costs post-covid | Places | 2022 to 2023 |
| Secure future of Barnehurst Golf Club | Places | June 2022 |
| Survey litter bins in town centres and on residential roads | Places | 2022 to 2023 |
| Use funding from TfL to address issues of congestion at key junctions, improve road safety, enhance bus priority and encourage active travel | Places | Ongoing |
| Work in partnership to develop our libraries as hubs for community activity | Places | Ongoing |
| Activity | Cabinet Member | End date |
|---|---|---|
| Healthy start projects to improve children's health | Children's Services | Ongoing |
| Refresh our Voluntary Sector Compact to guide our partnership working | Communities & Housing | Q4 2022 to 2023 |
| Consider feedback about our key frontline services and develop improvement plans where necessary | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Contract and Commissioning Forward Planning: opportunities for transformation, costs and savings options | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Process reviews for front line services to improve customer satisfaction | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Review approach to social media | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Review contracts & contract management to ensure efficiency & effectiveness | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Review our approach to complaints handling | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q3 2022 to 2023 |
| Promote lifelong education | Education Growth | Ongoing |
Last updated: November 2022