27 27 Our strategic plan Enhancing the wellbeing of children SDN’s 2016–18 strategic plan is coming to an end, and we have finalised our new plan for the next five years. Over the life of our current plan we’ve reviewed our progress on a regular basis, including a formal mid-plan review in March 2017 involving the Board and senior leaders. Major strategic pieces have been developed throughout the life of the plan, including regular reviews of our disability services growth strategy in response to changes as the NDIS rolled out, and a ten year vision for our centres. Early in 2018 we began the formal process of reviewing our strategy and consulting with staff, members and donors on our new plan for 2019–2023. This has included revisiting and testing our assumptions and basic principles, re-confirming the path that we’re on and identifying our priorities over the next five years. Each of our strategic plans over the past ten years has been a refinement of our thinking and practices. Our new plan will be no different — the wellbeing of children remains our focus, and we continue to believe that is best achieved by offering inclusive, quality services that build on skills and knowledge from multiple perspectives and disciplines. Our new plan will respond to the changing funding, operational and market requirements of the sectors that we work in, as well as changing workforce patterns and availability. Many of our locations are in inner city Sydney. When we began in 1905 these were areas of high need. Some still are, however Sydney’s centre of population has shifted to the west and south-west, and these now have areas of high need and high demand, particularly for disability services for children.