Agenda and minutes

None.

The Minutes of the meeting held on 7 November 2018 were approved as a true and accurate record.

Attendees:

-      Will Godfrey, PSB Intervention Lead for Sustainable Travel and The Newport Offer (Chief Executive of Newport City Council);

-      Huw Jakeway, PSB Intervention Lead for Green and Safe Spaces (South Wales Fire and Rescue Services);

-      Gary Handley, PSB Intervention Lead for Right Skills (Coleg Gwent);

-      Supt Ian Roberts, PSB Intervention Lead for Strong Resilient Communities (Gwent Police);

-      Rhys Cornwall (Head of People and Business Change);

-      Nicola Dance (Senior Policy and Partnership Officer).

The Committee was advised that Nicola Prygodzicz was unable to attend for the Strong Resilient Communities Intervention Progress Update and had asked that her apologies were offered at the Meeting.

A brief overview of the Public Services Board Well-being Plan Mid-Year Update was presented to the Committee by the Chief Executive of Newport City Council in which he briefly outlined the background on the shift from the Single Integrated Plan to the Well-being Plan.  It was important to recognise that the Public Services Board (PSB) was transitioning from adopting the Plan in May to delivering the Well-being Plan, starting with the identification of actions for interventions and the development of mechanisms for reporting back on the interventions.  He stressed that it was the start of the process so therefore not a fully-fledged reporting mechanism and that the report was also an opportunity to seek the Committee’s views on what it needed in future Well-being performance reports as part of the development.

He advised that it was important for the Committee to note that although there were five interventions, inevitably, each was at different stages, for example there was more detail within the Progress Update for Sustainable Travel intervention than other Well-being Plan Interventions, but as delivery progressed the reports would develop similarly.

He referred to page 17 of the report where an example of a dashboard using Sustainable Travel as the most developed to date was included and welcomed the Committee’s views upon the draft dashboard as a reporting mechanism to progress with actions in future reports.

Sustainable Travel

The Chief Executive introduced the Sustainable Travel Intervention to the Committee as the Public Services Board Lead for this Intervention.  He referred to page 19 of the report where an Action Plan for Sustainable Travel set out Steps, Actions, Progress to date and Plans for the next quarter.  He referred to one of the steps which related to fleet management and advised that a pan-Partnership view on these steps and the actions that could be taken was being collated.

He advised that air quality was a big issue across the City and the future impact of issues such as the proposed M4 relief road, a significant increase in traffic due to the tolls being removed on the Severn Bridges.  There was a need to change behaviour, to encourage others to do so, including: building infrastructure around electric vehicles and charging points; looking at the Bike Scheme in Cardiff to develop a scheme in Newport, which feeds into the Active Travel  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.

a)       Forward Work Programme Update (Appendix 1)

b)       Action Sheet (Appendix 2)

c)       Information Reports

d)       Scrutiny Letters / Public Services Board Minutes

Attendee:

-      M Lawrence (Scrutiny Adviser)

a)           Forward Work Programme Update

The Scrutiny Adviser presented the Forward Work Programme, and informed the Committee of the topics due to be discussed at the next two committee meetings:

6 March 2019

·      Violence Against Women Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Strategy

·      Education Achievement Service Business Plan

3 April 2019

·      Regional Area Plan 2018-19 of the Gwent Regional Partnership Board

·      Shared Resource Services

The Committee agreed the topics for the next two meetings, as above.

b)          Action Sheet

The Scrutiny Adviser presented the Action Sheet and advised the Committee that as indicated in the table, all items had been actioned and the information circulated to Members of the Committee accordingly, the Forward Work Programme had been updated and discussions regarding the availability for scheduling the Briefings were underway.

c)           Information Reports

The Scrutiny Adviser informed the Committee that there were no Information Reports to bring to the Committee’s attention.

d)          Scrutiny Letters

The Scrutiny Adviser informed the Committee that there were no Scrutiny letters to report to the Committee.