About Us

Enabling prosperity and wellbeing for all in Cheshire East

Cheshire East is a great place to live, work and visit for many, and has so much potential to be a brilliant place for everyone. We are ambitious for our communities and places and know we need to get the basics right to help unlock the opportunities at our fingertips.

We have a shared vision and commitments for the borough short and longer-term. We have created an ambitious and robust set of plans to deal with financial, organisational and service challenges. This will improve the culture, governance and performance of the council and includes an emphasis on outcomes for children and young people. By including these in an overarching plan for Cheshire East, for the next four years, we are providing a clear purpose and strategic direction for the council, as well as showing residents and partners where we are heading. The plan is aligned to our Transformation Plan and the Medium-Term Financial Strategy (MTFS). Having worked hard this year to reshape and resize the council’s budget we will use our resources to deliver our commitments.

We can be proud of the plans we have put in place and progress we have made. We need a continued focus on the priorities to deliver value for money, continuous improvement and better outcomes for Cheshire East, to meet residents’ high expectations of the council.

We cannot promise to deliver everything for everybody everywhere. We must work harder and smarter with our partners, businesses, residents, rural communities and town and parish councils to find innovative and lasting solutions to unlock prosperity and improve wellbeing. We are committed to improving the way we communicate and connect with all our communities to enable this to happen. Our relationship with community and voluntary organisations is critical – they play a key role, and we need to support and enable them to deliver for Cheshire East.

Our staff are our greatest asset. They are empowered to work with each other and partners. We want to be an ‘employer of choice’ in Cheshire East, where people are proud to work and serve our communities with a resident and outcome focus.

We are determined to tackle disadvantage and inequality. We will do this, for example, by working with our health partners to reduce the disparity in life expectancy in different parts of the borough. Also, by working with government, businesses and local residents to improve access to public transport and digital connectivity in rural communities.

We are committed to being an enabling council, building strong partnerships that unlocks the health and wealth potential of one of the UK’s most prosperous boroughs – ensuring wellbeing for all our adults, families and children.