The WA Government has launched an Integrated Planning website to assist local governments as part of the state’s Local Government Reform program.


The site provides advice on the development of an Asset Management Policy, Strategy and Plans; the development of a Long Term Financial Plan to inform the Corporate Business Plan; and will soon provide information about workforce planning.

 

Announcing the site, the Local Government Minister John Castrilli said adopting integrated planning was potentially the most important performance improvement able to be implemented by local governments.


Areas addressed include strategic community planning, corporate business planning, financial, human resource and asset and infrastructure requirements.


Last year the Local Government Steering Committee’s report on local government reform in WA noted the overall sector lacked capacity in:

 

  • strategic planning systems that present real accountable and measurable linkages between community aspirations, financial capacity and practical service delivery
  • financial planning systems that present an accurate demonstration of a local government’s capacity to deliver services and manage assets that can sustain their communities into the future
  • effective asset management systems that have the rigour of process and integrity of data to accurately inform true asset management costs.

 

The site can be accessed here http://integratedplanning.dlg.wa.gov.au/