Working at the Council
On 1 April 2009 we became Wiltshire Council, created by the four district councils and the county council coming together to form a unitary authority.
One Council – One culture
It is important that we move towards one culture now that we have amalgamated five organisations into one. We want to be an organisation that works corporately and openly, engaging its staff, citizens and communities and one that recognises its responsibilities to deliver high quality services and high quality leadership.
The document entitled What will we be like sets out in a concise and clear way the culture of the new council.
Elections took place on 4 June 2009 to elect 98 new councillors to the new Wiltshire Council. The councillors are elected every 4 years and are democratically accountable to the residents of their electoral divisions and together they represent the whole of Wiltshire. Members of the council must also follow a code of conduct as set out in Wiltshire's constitution.
Councillors will be appointed to all decision making and consultative bodies within the council.
Wiltshire Council employs 14,699 staff, about 1275 of them on the Bythesea Road campus. The rest work in schools, youth centres, libraries, area offices, day centres and more across the county.
We deliver our services via four service departments: -
• Department for Children & Education
• Department for Community Services
• Department for Transport, Environment & Leisure
• Department for Economic Development, Planning & Housing
These are backed by a central support Resources Department.
Around 65,000 children and young people use our schools and, at any one time, about 300 are in the care of the council with a further 2,500 are on social services’ caseloads.
Our social services support about 1,500 older people in residential and nursing homes and a further 4,700 in their own homes.
Every year, Wiltshire people borrow over three million books and tapes from our libraries, register over 8,300 births, marriages and deaths with the Registrars service, report some 4,000 complaints and enquiries to the Trading Standards Service and produce about 225,000 tonnes of household waste to be collected and disposed of by the Council. We also maintain 4,400 kilometres of road and supervise 6,000 kilometres of rights of way.
Aims
Our Vision is to create stronger and more resilient communities and :
• to deliver high quality, low cost, customer focused services
• to deliver local, open, honest decision making and,
• to work together to support Wiltshire’s communities
We want people to see us as leading Wiltshire’s communities, working in partnership, being open, and involving our communities and service users in decisions.
We want to work as one organisation, with strong corporate leadership and service managers who can make improvements locally.
We want our services to reflect the diverse needs and priorities of people who live and work in this large rural county.
We want our services to be accessible to everyone who needs them and be co-ordinated around their needs, not ours.
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