We value everyone
We value everyone
We respect, recognise and support our people, residents and businesses
We listen to each other, understand and treat everyone fairly
We care about our people and appreciate the unique qualities in us all.
We are living these values when we:
- Take active steps to understand what our residents, businesses and colleagues need, working as ‘one council’
- Involve people in decisions that affect them
- Look to ensure fairness and respect for all residents, businesses and colleagues
- See things from other people’s points of view
- Are open to different perspectives, traditions and ways of life
- Are open and honest, demonstrating compassion and understanding.
We are not living these values when we:
- Impose our own ideas/ solutions on residents, businesses and colleagues without consulting them
- Focus on our own or the Council’s interests, not those of residents
- Insist on seeing things from our point of view because we think we’re right
- Stay quiet when we witness behaviour that’s unacceptable.