Report of the Director of Strategy, Design and
Insight
This report updates on
how the Council has approached setting, understanding, impacting
and measuring the four Camden Missions agreed in December 2021 that
sit at the heart of our We Make Camden strategy (agreed in April
2022). It summarises what we mean by our ambition to become a
missions-orientated Council, and how we want to work with staff,
citizens and partners across the Borough in taking a new approach
to tackling complex problems and making real change. Our Missions
are both about making this change, and
also about learning new ways for Councils and public sector
organisations to engage, catalyse, convene and facilitate
innovation and community activity in places and across
sectors.
This report summarises
the alignment between mission ways of working and our principles,
ambitions and approaches set out in We Make Camden and The Way We
Work. Since agreeing them in late 2021, we have made significant
progress in understanding the challenges, issues, and gaps
associated with the issues our Missions highlight. We have also
invested in community, organisational and partner capacity to
deliver our Missions – embodied in our Community Wealth Fund,
our Good Life Camden resident prosperity framework and our We Make
Camden kit. We have also invested in producing transparent and
accessible updates, data and insight on our Missions and on the
issues occurring in our Borough – our annual State of the
Borough report contains data and measures aligned with our Missions
as well as evidence on what is happening across Camden relevant to
our We Make Camden priorities. We are also part of a growing number
of public sector organisations taking a missions approach, and we welcome the opportunity to
share learning and best practice as part of this network, including
central Government.
We welcome the
opportunity to work with Councillors on our Missions. This report
provides a summary of our missions-orientated work overall
including key capacity building and we are encouraging Scrutiny
Committees to receive further, more focused updates on each Mission
relevant to their Committee terms of
reference.
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