Welcome To Wirral

Wirral Council employs about 13,000 staff. The organisation delivers hundreds of specialist services to our customers. It is the largest single employer in the area.

Wirral is the ninth largest Metropolitan district in the country, and the third largest in the north west of England. It has an annual budget of £336m and is responsible for the management of the Merseyside Pension Fund presently totalling some £3 billion.

Our organisation is made up of six departments (listed below):

• Corporate Services
• Adult Social Services
• Children and Young People
• Regeneration
• Finance
• Technical Services

Each Council department has a director who is ultimately responsible for ensuring that their department delivers on the priorities outlined for their services.

Strategic Objectives

The Council's five strategic objectives describe the breadth of its activities and provide the framework for delivering and managing all its services.

1. To create more jobs, achieve a prosperous economy and regenerate Wirral.
2. To create a clean, pleasant, safe and sustainable environment.
3. To improve health and well being for all, ensuring people who require support are full participants in mainstream society.
4. To raise the aspirations of young people.
5. To create an excellent Council.

 

Priorities for improvement for 2008 - 2009

We have then broken these down further into our aims for the next five years, and our immediate priorities for improvement in the year ahead.

This will guide our future actions and help us to prioritise the resources we have. It will also inform the way in which the Council works with its partners who share many of these aims. These priorities for improvement are:

• Reduce worklessness
• Increase enterprise
• Increase levels of recycling
• Reduce the council’s carbon footprint
• Reduce number of people killed or seriously injured in road accidents.
• Promote greater independence and choice
• Raise overall educational attainment, particularly lower achieving young people.
• Safely reduce the number of looked after children
• Improve the use of the Council’s land and assets.
• Create a sustainable and stable budget, providing value for money
• Improve the Council’s budgeting process to fully reflect its priorities.

 

Membership of Wirral Council consists of 66 councillors, and the Council is divided into 22 wards. Meetings are usually held at 6.15pm in Wallasey Town Hall.