Corporate Peer Challenge

In October 2024, we participated in a Corporate Peer Challenge run by the Local Government Association.

Corporate Peer Challenge is a tried and trusted tool for improvement offered to councils. It involves a team of senior local government officers and councillors spending time at a council to provide challenge, offer feedback and share learning. 

All Corporate Peer Challenges focus on the five core components listed below:

• local priorities and outcomes
• organisational and place leadership
• governance and culture
• financial planning and management
• capacity for improvement

In addition, we asked our peer team for some feedback about our approach to customer services and overall customer experience.

During their three-day visit to Wychavon, the team gathered information and views from around 45 meetings, went on two mini-tours of parts of the district and carried out further research and reading. They spoke to more than 120 people, including employees, councillors and a range of our partners, external organisations and residents.

The peer team’s report provides a summary of the team’s findings and sets out some recommendations to help us progress from ‘good to great’. We welcome the positive feedback and the useful areas for improvement and recommendations.

We are working on an action plan in response to the report and recommendations, which we will publish on this page during March.

You can read the position statement we shared with the team before their visit to Wychavon: pdf Corporate Peer Challenge position statement (5.99 MB)

You can read the peer team’s feedback report: pdf Wychavon CPC Report (716 KB)

The peer team will revisit us in the second half of 2025 to assess our progress with implementing its recommendations.

For more information contact

Cherrie Mansfield
Head of Strategy and Engagement
01386 565508
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