Newport City Council’s chief officer structure was recently refreshed to support and ambitious and wide-ranging change programme.
Our directors and heads of service operate in a unified management structure which offers responsibility for key delivery areas, but also supports focus across the portfolios, ensuring the council performs to the best of its ability overall.
A new Corporate Plan for 2022- 2027 and interlinked strategies including the Digital Strategy and Climate Change Plan focus on areas such as people and culture.
The Corporate Plan provides the overarching principles for everything we do, guiding our services, our organisational culture and the delivery of our linger-term ambitions for the council and the city over the next 20 years.
We deliver more than 800 different services to over 150,000 residents.
There are 51 councillors representing a range of political groups. Newport City Council is currently a Labour authority.
We have a committed workforce of around 6,000 led by the Chief Executive, Beverly Owen and supported by three Strategic Directors, 11 Heads of Service and around 40 senior managers.
We are pleased to continue a strong history of developing our workforce through nurturing and developing our talent for internal opportunities, while also continuing to attract the very best talent externally, ensuring we have the right balance of skills and abilities in our workforce.
Our current chief officer layer has a 70/30 split of female and male, and we actively support diversity and inclusion in our workplace with a number of employee forums created to support this agenda.
Our workforce breakdown, like many local authorities is a 70/30 split in favour of females with our gender pay gap less than 1%. We continue our commitment to pay our staff at least the foundation living wage.
Our people are our most valuable asset. Without the contribution our colleagues make we simply would not function and not be able to deliver our outcomes to our communities. Staff surveys have shown that staff are engaged and motivated and recent routine statutory inspections by external partners have noted “a commitment and enthusiasm amongst staff and a persistence in efforts to build relationships and engage with our communities”.
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Corporate Plan
Wellbeing Objectives
Council Elected Members
Gender Pay Report
Local Development Plan
Current Budget
Plans and Policies