Place Plan
Monitoring and Evaluation
In the original 2019 Place Plan, we set out some measures of success, the most important measures being how we impact on people’s lives and wellbeing for the better. Other measures included financial responsibility and balance for our budgets, good quality rating from regulators such as the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and meeting NHS performance targets.
These original Place Plan outcomes were reviewed and aligned with the outcomes in the All Together Fairer report in 2022 and remain in place to support longitudinal monitoring of our progress. The 2025 Place Plan outcomes are set out below.
2025 Place Plan Outcomes
- Reduce household waste (kg of waste collected per household that could not be used, reduced or recycled)
- Increase recycling levels (percentage of waste sent for reuse, recycling or composting)
- Increase the number of streetlights fitted with LED solutions
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Council and NHS activities
- Increase the number of publicly available electric vehicle charging devices across the borough
- Increase the number of trees planted by the Mersey Forest
- Reduce the number of business travel miles claimed by Council staff
- Develop, implement, and evaluate an Electric Vehicle (EV) infrastructure strategy, alongside delivering EV infrastructure within the borough
- Increase the number of local NHS organisations with a board approved sustainable development plan
- Decrease the fraction of mortality attributable to particulate air pollution
- Increase healthy life expectancy at birth
- Reduce the number of children in absolute low-income families (under 16s)
- Reduce the numbers of children in relative low-income families (under 16s)
- Decrease smoking rates in residents in routine and manual occupations
- Increase the number of public sector contracts that include a minimum 15% weighting allocated to Social Value
- Increase breastfeeding rates
- Reduce the number of 4-5 and 10–11-year-olds who are overweight or obese
- Increase continuity of care for women from ethnic minority communities and from the most deprived groups (NHS Core20PLUS5 priority)
- Maintain the low numbers of 16–17-year-olds not in education, employment or training (NEET) or whose activity is not known
- Maintain or improve the Average Attainment 8 score
- Reduce the number of people who are killed or seriously injured on the roads
- Increase the proportion of adults in contact with secondary mental health services living independently
- Reduce the number of households that experience fuel poverty (low-income high-cost methodology)
- Reduce the number of rough sleepers
- Increase the number of adults in contact with secondary mental health services who live in stable and appropriate accommodation
- Reduce the number of adults who smoke
- Reduce the number of adults who are overweight or obese
- Increase the number of adults that are physically active
- Reduce the levels of depression in adults
- Reduce the number of suicides
- Increase the percentage of people aged 16-64 in employment
- Increase in proportion of adults in contact with secondary mental health services in employment
- Reduce the gap in employment rate between those with a learning disability and the overall employment rate
- Reduce the gap in employment rate between those with a long-term health condition and the overall employment rate
- Improve health related quality of life for older people
- Reduce the numbers of older people who fall and need to be admitted to hospital
- Reduce the number of alcohol related admissions to hospital
- Decrease the number of respiratory-related hospital admissions (NHS Core20PLUS5 Priority)
- Increase the number of people who successfully complete alcohol and drug treatment
- Increase annual health checks for those living with SMI (NHS Core20PLUS5 Priority)
- Increase the proportion of people who get their cancer diagnosed early (NHS Core20PLUS5 Priority)
- Increase the number of people who have their hypertension detected and treated appropriately (NHS Core20PLUS5 Priority)
- Increased levels of staff retention
The plans that have informed the updated 2025 Place Plan, and the consultations and engagement activities that informed the refreshed 2022 Place Plan can be found in the pdf document:
