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Corporate priorities

 

Essex County Council's Plan for Essex: 2021 to 2025 (PDF, 940.50kB) sets out twenty commitments:

 

  1. Good jobs
  2. Infrastructure
  3. Future growth and investment
  4. Green growth
  5. Levelling up the economy
  6. Net zero
  7. Transport and built environment
  8. Minimise waste
  9. Green communities
  10. Levelling up the environment
  11. Healthy lifestyles
  12. Promoting independence
  13. Place-based working
  14. Carers
  15. Levelling up health
  16. Education outcomes
  17. Family resilience and stability
  18. Safety
  19. Outcomes for vulnerable children
  20. Levelling up outcomes for families