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Together we can transform East Ayrshire
Together we can transform East Ayrshire
East Ayrshire Council is facing a period of unprecedented change. We need to reduce our budget by around £32 million (15%) over the next three years and to change the way we deliver services with and for our communities.
People @ the of everything we do
We received over 3,500 responses to the Vibrant Voices Campaign and your views and ideas have helped to shape how we will transform East Ayrshire through the following six Transformational Workstreams.
Transformation Strategy/Workstreams
On 22 February 2018, Council approved a report on the Development of the Transformation Strategy, which reported on the feedback from the Vibrant Voices engagement campaign.
Through our Transformation Strategy, we will become:
● a fairer, kinder and connected East Ayrshire
● a smaller Council, employing less people whilst maintaining high quality key services
● a vibrant and empowered East Ayrshire
● a more commercially focused Council that maximizes our income
● a council that listens, uses its resources wisely, looks to the future and believes in its people
A further report, which endorsed the Council’s Transformation Strategy 2017-2022 was approved by elected members at the Council meeting on 28 June 2018. The Strategy sets out a new direction for the Council, which faces a reduced budget of £32m over the next three years. Details of the Transformational Workstreams and associated actions which will be taken forward are noted below.
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Fairer, Kinder, Connected East Ayrshire
- A Fairer, Kinder, Connected Campaign
- Introduce automatic awards for Free School Meals and School Clothing Grants
- Embed data-driven decision making to help predict and manage demand
- Extend volunteering, befriending and intergenerational work to reduce loneliness and isolation
- Finalise the roll-out of ParentPay to help spread the cost of schools meals, uniforms and trips
- Roll-out the learning from ‘Ready to Learn’ initiative to support young people
- Reduce digital inequality
- Develop an electronic Community Book to connect communities to natural supports
2
Workforce Planning - Cultural Change & Service Redesign
- Review existing vacancies and promote internal recruitment to reduce our workforce through natural turnover
- Implement transformational service redesign to ensure that our services are flexible and responsive to customer needs
- Develop a Transformational Workforce Plan to support service redesign
- Develop career change pathways to meet future service demand
- Develop flexible job roles to allow our employees to work differently to support transformation
- Grow our young workforce by increasing graduate and apprenticeship opportunities
- Support flexible working by encouraging reduced working hours and flexible retirement
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A Digitally Connected East Ayrshire
- Support services to develop new cost effective, innovative or alternative ways of working digitally
- Move to cashless transactions by promoting direct debit and on-line payment methods
- Enable mobile working supported by the roll out of new technology
- Promote digital inclusion through digital access and learning, intergenerational work and volunteering
- Become a paper-lite organisation
- Undertake a review of the Council's core IT systems
4
A Vibrant & Empowered East Ayrshire
- Work with communities to co-produce financially sustainable services
- Explore opportunities for joint service delivery with our communities including The Clean, Green and Vibrant Campaign, and equip communities appropriately
- Identify further opportunities for volunteering including training and empowering local people and employees
- Review opportunities for extending participatory budgeting within the context of our Local Grants Scheme and the Renewable Energy Fund
- Review large scale grants to move towards partnering arrangements with key third sector partners
5
Property & Estate Rationalisation
- Review future corporate office accommodation requirements linked to the roll out of mobile working
- Explore further opportunities for CAT and community management
- Review Asset Management Framework
- Establish a Member officer Working Group to rationalise and dispose of surplus assets
- Consider further opportunities for co-location with partners
- Consider commercialisation opportunities
6
Income & Commercialisation
- Explore opportunities for new areas of charging including a review of existing parking arrangements with opportunities to extend into other areas
- Analyse existing charges and service costs to ensure commercial viability
- Explore opportunities for new revenue streams, e.g. sponsorship and resources
- Develop innovative solutions for smarter procurement
- Review the Council's fleet within the context of reducing mileage and resources
- Investigate the establishment of an East Ayrshire lottery to support investment in local communities and good causes
Updates & Events
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