Finally, government regulations, as a local authority it is of high importance that we follow these regulations and therefore must develop plans for compliance with the regulations.
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats when used by a company to gain competitive advantage, is often referred to as a SWOT analysis. The strengths within Havering Council would be that each year the government funds certain projects (e.g. the apprentice cohort) which doesn’t come out of the individual department’s budgets so they don’t have to worry about finding the money to fund it themselves. The weaknesses with the council might be that as they have set prices when it comes to hiring out council owned venues (e.g. library rooms) people may find
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Havering Council can be heavily affected by the political side of things as depending on which party is running the local government, this can effect which departments take funding cuts. Economical changes can mean that certain prices within the council must be put up (e.g. instrument hire). The social aspect within the council could be a change in the telephone system meaning most customers go through to an automated service when they would prefer to speak to a real person. Technological changes such as the council wanting to be paperless (meaning everything is online) could mean a loss in older customers who don’t have computers or don’t know how to use them. Legal changes within the council (e.g. how frequently someone must be DBS checked) could mean people working with children would not be able to work for a long period of time while waiting for their new one to come back. Finally, environmental changes within the council (e.g. growing awareness of the need for preserving nature) could mean the council could expand the local parks and preservation of trees within the parks would be more heavily