Introduction
Cumberland Council agreed our first council plan in November 2022, in advance of the creation of the new council in April 2023. This enabled us to focus on delivery of the ambitions set out in the Council Plan 2023 to 2027 from day one of our new council coming into being. We quickly put in place the first Delivery Plan and Performance Management Framework which set out the key activities we would carry out to deliver against the Council Plan ambitions, and how we would measure whether we were achieving them or not. These were agreed by the executive in January 2024.
We have successfully delivered against the priorities in our delivery plan over the last 18 months, and this new Delivery Plan sets out a refreshed set of programmes and success measures for the next 2 years.
This Delivery Plan is focused on delivering against our Council Plan priorities, highlighting the key things that will help us achieve and track progress against those priorities. The Delivery Plan is intentionally short and focussed. It is not intended to describe everything we do as a council. We deliver a vast range of services - from highways maintenance to childrens services, entertainment licences to adult social care, waste collection to public health. The daily delivery of all of the council’s essential services is of course also vital and we will always strive to ensure that those services are continuously improving and serving the needs of our communities.