Agenda and minutes

None.

The minutes of the meeting held on 5 February 2020 are accepted as a true and accurate record.

Attendees:

- Tracy McKim, Partnership Policy and Involvement Officer (NCC);

- Emma Wakeham, Senior Policy and Partnership Officer (NCC);

- Ceri Davies, Vice Chair of the PSB and Intervention Lead for Green and Safe Spaces (Natural Resources Wales);

- Ceri Doyle, PSB Intervention Lead for Sustainable Travel (RSLs)

- William Beer, PSB Lead

The Policy Partnership and Involvement Manager introduced the partners from the Public Service Board to the committee, who are representing the whole of the PSB which was established by the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act. Its key role is the delivery of the Well-being Plan, which report is subject to an annual report which will be signed off by the PSB, then reviewed by Scrutiny.

The Lead for Green and Safe Spaces then gave an overview of the content of the report. The PSB members firstly extended their thanks to the Policy Manager, Emma and their team for pulling together the report, which the partners feel is a good document that highlights specific work that demonstrates delivery, cross-cutting and collaborative nature of the work that is being done, and shows that the citizens of Newport are put at the forefront of the work that is being done is meeting their needs.

The report will be bilingual and available on Sway so it is accessible to more people. We are in very difficult times with the pandemic and all services have been stretched and some things have been delayed, but partners felt that it remained important to capture the work during the year leading up to the pandemic. The Lead also wished to flag that what is difficult to demonstrate in the report is the maturing relationship of the PSB membership and how this came to the fore when dealing with the pandemic. The teams were very quick to work together to undertake both our distinct roles but to also support each other and work together for the greater good to protect the communities of Newport. The Lead then wished to remind of the context in which we’re working as a PSB, the Annual Report is produced every year following the well-being plans implementation and the overview that is provided gives the opportunity for the public services board to review progress against each of our four well-being objectives by identifying areas of good practice and using the following framework what we've tried to set out in the plan is a description of the case study.

The Lead for Sustainable Transport introduced herself to the committee. Information was then given specifically in relation to sustainable traffic, transport and active travel.

Members asked the following:

-       Members understood the current issues with Covid, but asked what are the timescales for implementation?

-       It was advised that the specific details aren’t available currently but these can be information can be passed onto the committee as it will be one of the individual partners of the PSB that will be leading on this piece of work

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Invitees

-       Gareth Price – Head of Law and Regulation

The Head of Law and Regulation advised that as a Scrutiny committee, they can decide whether there are any partnership reviews or items that they would like to bring forward.

Members asked the following:

-       Members suggested that updates on the progress of the Shared Resource Service and the Education Achievement Service could be added to the work programme. The officer advised the committee that these annual business plans normally come to the committee, so will be added to the work programme.

-       It was suggested that from comments made in previous meetings, issues involving the Newport Norse joint venture could be brought forward in terms of Covid recovery and response. Newport Live was then suggested as another item.

-       Members voiced the important of having updates on the Fostering and Adoption Services. This would be another item to be added to the work programme.