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Peer Review
The Local Government Association recently conducted an independent review of
Dorset Council. Officers and councillors from other councils across the country
recently visited Dorset Council to review our progress since we formed in April. In
summary, they told us:

political leadership is setting the agenda and there is good cross-party working
it’s good we are asking residents about our draft Council Plan, but we need to
develop our relationships with town and parish councils

we need realistic plans to meet financial pressures, balancing priorities with
aspirations
although employee morale and enthusiasm is good, many feel anxious due to the
high level of change and we must respect that and work to improve morale

We are grateful for the feedback which will help us improve early on in the
council’s life.

Extra Police Officers in Dorset
The go ver n men t r ec ently
announced funding for the
recruitment of additional Police
Officers. Dorset Police to receive
an extra 50 officers in year one of
Operation Uplift programme. It has
been announced that the
recruitment target for Dorset Police
is 50 new officers as part of year
one in the 6,000 national Operation
Uplift scheme. This figure will be in
addition to the existing planned recruitment for officers that Dorset Police already
had in place. The National Policing Board recently announced how year one of
the Government’s officer uplift programme would be allocated across all of the
forces in England and Wales. The uplift numbers for both year two and year three
of the scheme are yet to be confirmed.
Chief Constable James Vaughan said: “This is a good start and it will bring a
welcome relief to our stretched workforce.

Brexit

We have been allocated a total of £500k from Government to aid our Brexit
preparations. To date £100k of this has been approved. We are working with

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