1.1  Background

This section should provide a summary of the background to the organisation and the case for change.  While it should summarise other sections of the SBC, it should include the following:

•  Further details of the case for change and the vision;

•  Patterns of service drivers (e.g. deprivation and links to revenues and benefits);

•  Details of Council facilities affected and any accommodation rationalisation plans e.g. offices;

•  Details of any regional programmes which are relevant;

•  Other Authorities approached to become partners in the procurement;

•  Links to other corporate strategies which have links (e.g. regeneration, communities, social exclusion etc);

•  Details of available technology and how it could lever in benefits and efficiencies to Council services.