Transforming and regenerating the borough 

Supporting the Council's 2020 vision

Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council and Capita began a 15-year partnership intended to modernise council services. Capita’s ongoing goal is to support the Council’s ‘2020 vision’ to transform Blackburn with Darwen in to the kind of place that local people, businesses and other stakeholders want. Specifically, we are looking to do this by transforming the way people operate, creating employment opportunities, improving council services and delivering a borough-wide regeneration programme. Since the partnership began in 2001 it has achieved all of its objectives and met or exceeded all its targets. The strength of the partnership was a major contributing factor in the Council’s success as Local Government Chronicle Council of the Year in 2002 and the achievement of an ‘excellent’ rating in the latest CPA results in 2008.

“Our relationship demonstrates what can be achieved through proactive partnership working. The borough has seen huge benefit in regeneration and creation of jobs from having a FSTE100 company in town. Equally Capita have grown a successful business centre with national reputation for delivering good quality services”

John Slee, Capita Business Centre Director, Cumbria and Blackburn Strategic Partnerships