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launches Corporate Plan 2004 - 2007 |
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Southern Education and Library Board looks forward over
the next 12 months to continuing to provide services
which best respond to its customers and partners, the
Board’s chairman has stated. |
| Mrs
Moira Alexander was commenting as the SELB launched
its Corporate Plan 2004-2007 at the Board’s March
meeting. The Corporate Plan includes the Board’s
operational plan for the next financial year. |
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Mrs
Alexander and Board chief executive, Mrs Helen McClenaghan,
were delighted to welcome representatives of organisations
with which the SELB works closely to the March 18
meeting for the plan launch. Also welcomed were customers
who use the services provided by the SELB.
Mrs Alexander said: “At the forefront of our
planning is our service to the individual child, young
person or adult.
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“In
our frequent visits to schools, libraries, youth settings,
outdoor education and teachers’ centres we talk
about what matters to the people we meet; what they
expect of the Board and how we can support their activities
and aspirations in better, more clearly focussed ways.
“The Plan is very much the product of the Board’s
assessment of how services can best respond to customers
and partners.
“The contributions of all who participated in
the consultation have offered particular insights
and given direction for which we are most grateful.
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addition to being customer-driven we are also community-focused.
Not only through our formal liaison arrangements with District
Councils but also through a network of strategic operational
support we live out our commitment to being servants of the
public and enablers of our fellow-citizens.
“We recognise the importance of service delivery being
resourced to maintain and extend services and we acknowledge
how dependent schools, youth providers and public library
users are on high levels of funding.
“The Board is greatly exercised by what it perceives
as an unfair allocation method which fails to take adequate
account of the rural nature of the area the Board serves.
“On behalf of its customers the Board will maintain
pressure on Government to recognise the overall needs of education
for greater levels of resourcing as well as the particular
needs of this Board.”
Among the representatives of partner organisations and customers
who attended the plan launch were Fionnuala Cook, chair of
the Southern Health and Social Service Board, Thomas McCall,
chief executive of Newry and Mourne District Council, Des
Fitzgerald, library user, Justin Nesbitt, Armagh Youth Forum
and David Dickson, principal of The Armstrong Primary School,
Armagh..
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