Corporate Strategy 2025-30

Foreword

It is with great pleasure that I present the Council’s Corporate Strategy 2025-2030. The Strategy is aligned with Cabinet’s Programme for Administration agreed in January 2023, and looks forward over the next five years to the challenges and opportunities facing the Council and how we intend to meet these. The Strategy has been developed in line with the Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, and my Cabinet and I are committed to working with our officers to deliver a positive and lasting change for our wonderful County.

As a Council we continue to face significant challenges. These include an extremely difficult financial context and ever increasing demand for services, especially in children’s and adults’ social care. In addition, we are not immune to external factors which have a direct or indirect impact on our ability to deliver and in recent years these have included rising energy costs, the cost of living crisis and uncertainty and instability created by global factors.

Despite these challenges I remain positive about our future and our ability to meet the objectives set out in the Strategy. As evidence of this I would point to the progress we have made over the past few years in improving core services such as education and planning, the continuing high levels of performance in our waste and recycling service, and ongoing improvement work to make social services, both in adult and children’s social care, more sustainable.

Progress against this Strategy will be reported through our annual self-assessment report which is approved by Council each autumn. We will draw upon the self assessment’s conclusions to ensure the actions we take reflect our organisational learning, and changes in the external environment as they emerge.

We cannot deliver without the commitment and dedication of our staff. I am proud of the work that they do, and we continue to rely on them day-in day-out. I am also confident that through unlocking the power and potential of our communities and through our strong commitment to working with our partners and key stakeholders, we can look positively towards our shared future, and that in five years’ time, Pembrokeshire will be a better place to live and work in than it is today.

Cllr Jon Harvey, Leader