PART 1LOCAL GOVERNMENT IMPROVEMENT

Improvement objectives

I13Improvement objectives

1

For each financial year, a Welsh improvement authority must set itself objectives for improving the exercise of its functions during that year (“improvement objectives”).

2

A Welsh improvement authority must make arrangements to secure achievement of its improvement objectives.

3

An improvement objective must be framed so as to improve the exercise of the function or functions to which it relates in terms of at least one of the following—

a

strategic effectiveness;

b

service quality;

c

service availability;

d

fairness;

e

sustainability;

f

efficiency; and

g

innovation.

4

For the meanings of paragraphs (a) to (g) of subsection (3), see section 4.