Council given key areas to improve
TOWN HALL CONSIDERS
A SINGLE clinical commissioning group to manage the borough’s healthcare and a return to in-house management of council homes.
They are just two of the recommendations being considered by Kirklees Council following an independent review of the authority by a team of local government experts last summer.
The report, compiled by a sevenmember team from the Local Government Association and delivered free of charge, was presented at the first 2020 meeting of Kirklees Council by council leader Shabir Pandor.
It praised the council as being ambitious and a catalyst for regeneration and investment as well as saying the leadership is highly regarded.
But the report also set out eight key recommendations to assist the council on its “improvement journey.”
They included better communications, listening to residents, collaborating with the community, streamlining decision-making, reviewing the “destabilising” electoral cycle, reclaiming management of its housing stock and establishing a single clinical commissioning group.
Addressing the chamber, Clr Pandor said: “We were very confident from an early stage that we were on the right trajectory.
“The report is positive albeit there are some lessons that we need to learn in moving forward, which is also a positive.
“They found that we have very strong leadership, bold plans and a very strong structure in place in terms of not just a policy but also resources behind it to move the agenda forward.