About Thurrock Council
Our Purpose
The council’s purpose is to:
- Lead our communities, bringing residents, businesses, community groups and partners together to better understand the opportunities and needs of the borough and individual neighbourhoods.
- Bring together, engage and collaborate with all who can make a contribution to supporting local people with their needs and to realise opportunity.
- Provide high quality analysis to support open decision-making on strategic and operational priorities.
- Be consistent and comprehensive in analysing and evaluating the impact of our collective strategies to enable us to learn how to improve.
Our Values and Behaviours
These co-designed values, behaviours and ways of working are the bedrock for rebuilding trust and confidence and for our assessment of performance corporately and personally.
Our behavioural drivers are:
- Accountability
- Integrity
- Collaborative
- Impactful
- Responsiveness
- Adaptability
Our Priorities
Theme 1: Improving and Enabling
Priorities:
- Continue to fix the foundations
- Modernise and digitise services so they are accessible, financially sustainable and fit for the future
- Develop a new culture of listening to our community and enabling our partners
Theme 2: People
Priorities:
- Collaborate and innovate with partners and communities
- Focus on early intervention and prevention
- Unlock improved life chances through education, employment and training
Theme 3: Place
Priorities:
- Set the vision for our Place and its future infrastructure needs
- Collectively create and promote Thurrock as a place of inclusive growth
- Improve and protect our environment and public spaces
- Ensure access to safe, sustainable and affordable housing
Additional Information
Corporate and Improvement Plan 2025-2029