Our plan

Our plan sets out our strategic direction over the next five years.

The plan has been adopted by our Board members and will be reviewed and updated as part of our annual planning cycle. It highlights the key challenges affecting our organisation and details how we will adapt to a changing business environment to deliver our objectives and strategic priorities.

The plan meets a dual purpose: firstly, as a working document for our board members, its management and staff to understand, monitor and manage the business; and secondly, to summarise our operating position and future direction for our key partners, stakeholders and staff.

Our reports and future plans

Click here to view our five-year Business Plan, latest Customer Annual Report and our approach to Value for Money.

Risk management

We have a comprehensive and integrated approach to risk management which aims to ensure that:

  • our staff are clear about what risk management is intended to achieve
  • significant risks are being identified and managed effectively
  • training and guidance on risk management are easily accessible
  • a consistent corporate approach is followed using a common ‘risk language’, and
  • it is seen as an integral part of good corporate governance

Fraud

We are committed to the protection of our assets against losses to fraud and corruption. We are working to make sure that the opportunity for fraud and corruption is reduced to the lowest possible level. We will be supported in this by the honest majority of people who oppose fraud.

We aim to prevent fraud and corruption by:

• Taking a strategic approach to managing fraud risk;

• Promoting an anti-fraud and corruption culture to which everyone is committed;

• Encouraging the reporting of reasonably held suspicions;

• Assessing, and reviewing, areas where the risk of fraud and corruption is greatest, and providing adequate resources to carry out preventative and detective anti-fraud controls in those areas;

• Designing and operating systems, procedures and policies which minimise the risk of fraud and corruption;

• Assisting government bodies, where appropriate, in their investigations into fraud and corruption; co-operating with other bodies to prevent and detect fraud and corruption

• Complying with the good practice as set out in the Money Laundering Regulations 2007;

• Creating an anti-bribery culture, supported by policies and procedures, and ensuring compliance with its corporate responsibilities under the Bribery Act 2010;

• Providing appropriate training to members, managers and staff to make them aware of fraud risks and of their responsibilities under this and related company policies.

Where possible, we will seek to ensure that individuals who have acted, or who have attempted to act, fraudulently or corruptly are prosecuted and any proceeds of their actions are recovered.

Members of the public, partners, contractors, suppliers and other external organisations should be encouraged to raise any issues that concern them regarding possible fraudulent, corrupt or other illegal acts, through whichever channel they consider appropriate. Requirements on contractors, partners and suppliers parties to abide by this Policy in the conduct of their business with and for Bolton at Home will be included in tender documents and terms of contract.

In the event that complaints against us from external bodies cannot be resolved informally, then we has a formal complaints procedure. Allegations received by anonymous letters or telephone calls must be treated seriously and investigated in an appropriate manner as far as it is practical to do so, unless there are good reasons to believe that the allegation is not genuine.