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Value deep dive: Empowered

5 September 2025

What does empowered mean?

We define empowered as 'we support, trust and value each other'. We can all demonstrate being empowered in our everyday behaviours and decision-making.


Read how Chris Caley, head of service, family help in children's services is using the empowered value to develop his team.

Share your empowered success stories by emailing employee.engagement@derbyshire.gov.uk.

Support with interview questions

To support with the embedding of the values across the council, the recruitment team has recently launched a bank of value based interview questions including questions specifically for leaders based on the behaviour framework.