Action delivery plan
| Activity | Cabinet Member | End date |
|---|---|---|
| To continue to work with trusted providers to deliver Care Act assessments in the community | 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 to support residents with complex care needs in the community | 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' to make it easier for residents to get the support they need | Adults’ Services & Health | June 2023 |
| Implement requirements from Adult Social Care Reform White Paper to serve our residents better | Adults’ Services & Health | March 2024 |
| Improve personalisation of care services in the home | Adults’ Services & Health | October 2022 |
| Improve and promote personalisation in residential and nursing care | Adults’ Services & Health | TBC |
| Improve and promote personalisation in services for people with a learning disability | Adults’ Services & Health | September 2024 |
| Promote personalisation in services for people with a physical disability | Adults’ Services & Health | February 2023 |
| Improve personalisation in transport services for adults with complex needs | Adults’ Services & Health | September 2023 |
| Preparing for Adulthood – develop local education options for our young people leaving care | Adults’ Services & Health | March 2024 |
| Refresh our Obesity Strategy and action plan to improve the health of Bexley residents | Adults’ Services & Health | 2025 |
| Review our Prevention Strategy to stop issues and challenges escalating | 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 |
| Provide 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 in partnership to establish Local Care Networks (LCNs), and use those LCNs to promote mental wellbeing amongst residents | 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 |
| Promote lifelong education for all our residents. | Education Growth | Ongoing |
| We will support our volunteers and community champions to make Bexley even better. | Communities & Housing | Ongoing |
| Prepare for new Care Quality Commission inspection framework in our Adult Social Care directorate, informed by pilots. | Adults’ Services & Health | Ongoing |
| Manage demand and capacity in our staff through supporting the ‘Grow Your Own’ social worker academy. | 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, so that families and young people get the best support. | Children's Services | Q4 2022 to 2023 |
| Deliver the children's social care workforce strategy to best support our young people. | Children's Services | 2024 |
| Extend prevention & early help services, so that more children are helped before issues escalate. | Children's Services | Ongoing |
| Implement Contextual Safeguarding strategy to best protect our young people | Children's Services | Ongoing |
| Implement the joint Special Educational Needs and Disabilities & Preparing for Adulthood strategy to best support children who use our services as they move to adult social care services. | Children's Services | Ongoing |
| Improve Contact Centre arrangements for children in our care to keep young people safe. | Children's Services | 2023 to 2024 |
| Maximise external investment opportunities for children's social care | Children's Services | Ongoing |
| Fulfil 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 further options for supported living and housing for children leaving our care, so they can have the best start in adulthood. | Children's Services | Ongoing |
| Make the case for better schools Special Educational Needs Funding with the Department for Education. | Education | Ongoing |
| Develop a business plan for Local Enterprise and Skills College, to improve the learning officer in Bexley. | Education | Ongoing |
| Explore opportunities for a further school expansion project for young people with additional needs | Education | Ongoing |
| Working with Schools to implement the Safety Valve programme, so that children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities receive higher-quality care. | 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 |
| Support and promote healthy start projects to improve children's health. | Children's Services | Ongoing |
| Implement our Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Priority Action Plan, agreed with the Department for Education and Ofsted, to improve the outcomes for young people in our borough. | Education | Ongoing |
| Options for developing the youth services hub | Children's Services | No longer progressing with this action, our funding application was unsuccessful. |
| Activity | Cabinet Member | End date |
|---|---|---|
| Adopt an ethical investment strategy to promote strong shared values in our investment activity. | 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 to optimise our finances. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Delivery of BexleyCo Business Plan. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Carry out a review of income and expenditure to maximise our efficiency. | 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 to reduce our carbon footprint. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Consider options to promote local procurement, so we can invest in our local community. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Create a customer services dashboard to monitor performance, so that services can be improved. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q2 2023 to 2024 |
| Define and deliver our digital strategy programme, so our services are modern and accessible. | 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, to better serve our residents. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q1 2023 to 2024 |
| Develop digital channels for customer contact, to be modern and accessible for our residents | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Improve options for residents when making payments | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q4 2022 |
| 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, so we can better serve our residents. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q3 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 to ensure Bexley businesses get the best deal. | Growth | Q2 2023 to 2024 |
| Deliver a sustainable Medium Term Financial Strategy | Leader of the Council | Annual Q4 |
| 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 contracts & contract management to ensure efficiency & effectiveness | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Review our approach to complaints handling, to better serve our residents. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q3 2022 to 2023 |
| Implement the People Strategy, to attract, develop and retain the highest quality workforce, who represent the changing nature of the Borough. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Implement the Customer Experience Strategy, to put customers at the heart of what we do and commit to improving the services we provide them. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| 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 celebrations. | Communities & Housing | 2022 |
| 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, to guide development in the borough. | 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 the Sidcup Storyhouse as a new community and culture hub. | 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 to promote growth and community in our high streets. | Growth | December 2022 |
| Tailored programmes to support town centres & high streets (bringing in additional funding where possible) | Growth | Ongoing |
| Oppose ULEZ expansion on behalf of our residents. | Leader of the Council | 2022 to 2023 |
| Add new household waste collections, e.g. electronic items or textiles, to promote a greener Bexley. | Places | 2023 to 2024 |
| Complete roll out of open fibre across Bexley and provide lead support to 8 other boroughs on similar projects. | 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, to further protect our local environment. | Places | Ongoing |
| Increase capital investment in highways and footpaths | Places | 2026 |
| Increase the number of Tesla and EV charging points to benefit residents and promote greener transport. | Places | 2023 |
| Increase investment in grounds maintenance of parks, hedges, and verges to improve green spaces in our borough. | 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 for our residents to enjoy. | Places | 2022 |
| Refresh our approach to climate change | Places | Q4 2022 to 2023 |
| Refresh Street Party Policy, to encourage more communities to get together. | Places | 2022 to 2023 |
| Review car park use and costs post-covid to ensure the arrangements work for Bexley residents. | Places | 2022 to 2023 |
| Secure future of Barnehurst Golf Club | Places | June 2022 |
| Survey litter bins in town centres and on residential roads to improve the appearance of our towns. | 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 |
| Make the most of our parks and open spaces, being open to new investment and opportunities that deliver against our core priorities. | Places | Ongoing |
| Activity | Cabinet Member | End date |
|---|---|---|
| Review approach to social media | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Develop and implement a refreshed Equalities & Inclusion Policy, to promote fairness across the borough. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q4 Annual |
| Understand the impact of the pandemic on residents and services, to help better serve into the future. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Q4 2022 to 2023 |
| Enhance our Project & Programme monitoring approach, to be efficient and effective. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Quarterly |
| Lobby Whitehall on improving our resources and investment (PH, SEND, Business Rates, Funding Formula etc.) | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Work with key partners in Bexley to deliver a long-term 2050 Vision, to drive employment, growth, the local environment, and pride in our local communities. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Establish a new Assurance Framework | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Improve our internal audit and risk processes. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Establish a new Risk Management Strategy. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Establish a new Counter-Fraud Strategy to effectively drive down fraud and corruption activity and ensure public funds are used appropriately in the Borough. | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
| Launch our Data warehouse and implement a new data strategy | Deputy Leader of the Council / Resources | Ongoing |
Last updated: December 2024