Objective
Equip our pupils with the skills, attitudes and expectations to prosper in a changing society and encourage creativity, enterprise and education as set out in our Learning to Achieve strategy. We will demonstrate progress by:
Raising levels of educational attainment and achievement for all our pupils, measured in terms of:
a) SQA examination performance
b) Academic achievement of looked-after children
Objective
To improve the economic well being of our citizens and communities
We will demonstrate progress by:
Increasing satisfaction of business panel members with events;
Increasing the number of businesses receiving start up support from the Council through national business gateway;
Increasing the uptake of work based training provision provided by the Council;
Increasing the number of Modern Apprentices and Skillseekers managed by the Council;
Increasing the number of jobs created or secured by the Council through support to businesses;
Increasing the proportion of permanent craft and manual posts within Corporate & Commercial Services;
Reducing the number of people unemployed relative to the Scottish average;
Increasing the number of day visitors outwith the area to Big in Falkirk;
Increasing the total visitor expenditure in the area (per calendar year);
Increasing the number of bed nights taken up by tourism related visitors (per calendar year);
