Woodbury Parish Council has received the prestigious award of ‘Quality Council’ as part of the Local Council Award Scheme.
This achievement recognises that the council achieves good practice in governance, community engagement and council improvement. Moreover, Woodbury Parish Council goes above and beyond their legal obligations, leading their communities and continuously seeking opportunities to improve and develop even further.
The Award Scheme report highlighted the council’s particular areas of strength, including its community engagement through planning Ward Councillor surgeries, community consultations as well as Governance.
The Local Council Award Scheme is a National programme that has been designed to both provide the tools and encouragement to those councils at the beginning of their improvement journeys, as well as promoting and recognising councils that are at the cutting edge of the sector. It is through the sector working together to share best practice, drive up standards and supporting those who are committed to improving their offer to their communities that individual councils and the sector as a whole will reach its full potential.
Woodbury Parish Council’s own Chairman, Cllr. Cheryl McGauley, was quoted as saying We were thrilled to receive accreditation for this award as it reflects the hard work and collaborative efforts of all the Councillors and parish staff who strive to run a smooth, efficient and best value council.”
In terms of the future, the council is now reviewing ways in which it can keep on improving its offer to the local community and welcomes input from local people and partners on this. Woodbury Parish Council, and other local councils like it, are at the front line of the government’s localism agenda and are doing as much as they can to delivery services whilst being efficient and cost-effective. Currently the council provides a range of services from maintaining parks and open spaces to providing community grants and wants to improve its engagement with the public through this.
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