The Council

 

 

 

Dundee City Council is a democratically elected body for the Dundee area with 29 elected members representing 8 wards.

The Dundee City Council area is geographically the smallest local authority area in Scotland with a population of 147,720. We also serve as the regional centre for approximately 500,000 people in the surrounding areas of Perth & Kinross, Angus and Fife.

We deliver services aimed at providing a better quality of life for the people of Dundee. We are also one of the largest employers in the city with 6,706 employees.

We have a strong local and national reputation for providing good quality and effective services to our citizens through our strategic services areas and partners. We have performed well, despite the significant financial challenges, the pandemic and increased demand for our services.

It is our vision to continuously improve service delivery and to support and enable initiatives which make our services more accessible, more convenient, more operationally effective and cost effective.

Our employees are our biggest asset.

Our Council’s Vision, Values and Key Priorities

The City Plan and Council Plan are two key documents which spell out the Dundee Partnership’s vision for the future of the city and the Council’s key priorities. The City Plan sets out ambitious but realistic targets for improving a range of outcomes across the partnership agenda, while the Council Plan details the local authority’s targets and actions for making improvements on its priorities.

Dundee City Council fully endorses the shared vision for our City set out in the Dundee Partnership’s City Plan 2022-2032. This reflects a consensus in the City which we can all work towards and is set out as follows:

  • Dundee will be a caring city which has tackled the root causes of poverty and delivered fairness in incomes, education and health.
  • Dundee will have a strong, creative, smart and sustainable city economy with jobs and opportunities for all.
  • Dundee will be a greener city, made up of strong communities where people feel empowered, safe and proud to live.

To achieve the vision, we have selected the five priorities to focus on for the next five years and to underpin our bold and ambitious culture to encourage everyone at Dundee City Council to live by these values and deliver on these priorities.

Our Priorities

Living our values

Be open and honest

  • Develop our talent
  • Have a full engagement with our workforce
  • Encourage feedback
  • Develop our workforce information and analytics to aid decision-making
  • Manage workforce change


Be fair and inclusive

  • Promote diversity, inclusion and difference
  • Provide an Employee Wellbeing Service
  • Ensure healthy and safe working practices
  • Two-way conversations encouraged
  • Demonstrate respect and dignity


Be innovative and transforming

  • Encourage curiosity
  • Open to suggestions and change
  • Share new ideas, thinking and practice
  • Be evidence-based in our decisions


Be constantly learning

  • Identify and deliver future skills
  • Use learning to improve our work
  • Have coaching conversations
  • Encourage reflective learning

Further Reading

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