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Our Aims

Delivering Quality and Best Value

  • providing good quality services which meet the needs of our communities.
  • Quality is about delivering services on time and to standards agreed with customers and citizens, within available resources.  
  • Best Value means getting the best from pubic money in terms of cost and quality;  looking at new ways of delivering services;  ensuring sound management and good information systems that help the Council to listen to and give feedback on customers and citzens' views.

Promoting Social Inclusion

  • making sure everyone has the same opportunity to learn, work and make the most of life, whatever their background or lifestyle.

Stirling Council wishes to ensure that all citizens have access to services and a say in how the area is run.

The Council aims to include people who are excluded by identifying where and how exclusion is happening and overcoming barriers to inclusion.

The Council has drawn up a Social Charter giving the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

The Social Charter identifies key themes critical to social inclusion:

  • access
  • information
  • accountability
  • equality
  • participation
  • choice and responsibility.

Working Towards Sustainability

  • encouraging careful use of power, transport, land and other resources to protect what we have for our children.

Sustainable development is about ensuring a better quality of life for people now and in the future.
This means bringing together social progress which recognises:

  • the needs of everyone
  • effective protection of the environment
  • prudent use of natural resources
  • maintenance of a stable level of economic growth and employment.

The Council works to achieve this through its various programmes and in its everyday work, in partnership with all parts of the community.

Promoting Local Democracy

  • inviting everyone who lives here to have a say in decision-making, in groups and as individuals.

Local Democracy is about encouraging, enabling and empowering citizens to participate in decisions affecting their communities and ensuring local democratic accountability for Council services.