Agenda item

The Leader of the Council introduced the report, asking Council to approve the One Newport Public Services Board’s Wellbeing Plan for 2018-23. 

The Well-being of Future Generations Act required the Council to take account of the long term, take a partnership approach, and involve people.  The Act also established the Public Services Board (PSB) chaired by the Leader of the Council.  The PSB was responsible for an assessment of local well-being and a Local Well-being plan.

The Local Well-being Assessment for Newport was published in May 2017. A Local Well-being Plan, setting out objectives and the steps the PSB would take to meet them, had to be published by May 2018.

The draft plan under consideration was developed by the partnership based on the outcomes in the Well-being Assessment and community profiles.  The report outlined 13 priorities that came out of a series of workshops and were agreed by the PSB:

1)         Newport has a clean and safe environment for people to use and enjoy

2)         Improve Air Quality across the city

3)         Communities are resilient to climate change

4)         People feel part of their community (community cohesion & resilience)

5)         Participation in physical activity is important for people’s physical and mental well-being and resilience

6)         Participation in arts, heritage and history is important for people’s well-being

7)         Improve the perceptions of Newport as a place to live, work, visit and invest

8)         Drive up skill levels for economic and social well-being

9)         Support regeneration and economic growth

10)       Provide children and young people with the best possible start in life

11)       Long and healthy lives for all (equalise up health life expectancy and life expectancy and health inequalities)

12)       Ensuring people feel safe in their communities, by reducing crime and antisocial behaviour and fear of crime

13)       People have access to stable homes in a sustainable supportive community

The next step was to develop a Response Analysis. This was the link between the Local Well-being Assessment and the Local Well-being Plan. The response analysis informed the selection of local objectives and assessed how local services (in a collective sense) were, and could be, addressing them.

Working with 30+ organisations, five cross cutting interventions were identified which spanned the emerging priorities, and maximised the contribution to the well-being goals. 

These were:

·         The Newport Offer

·         Strong Resilient Communities

·         Right Skills

·         Green and Safe Spaces

·         Sustainable Travel

The consultation responses including the advice of the Future Generations Commissioner were outlined in the report.  These were considered by the PSB and the Plan had been amended accordingly.

The next stage was for the statutory organisations to adopt the Plan prior to this being finalised at the May PSB.

The Leader concluded by paying tribute to the officers involved in producing this plan, and the huge amount of hard work which had gone into the process.

During the discussion the following points were raised:

-       Support for the content of the plan, and recognition of the work that had gone into it.

-       Concerns about the monitoring of the plan, and how success would be measured.

-       Concerns about the resources available to deliver the plan.

-       The role played by the Performance Scrutiny Committee – Partnerships in reviewing the draft plan in its development, and scrutinising its outcomes in the future.

Resolved

To approve the One Newport Public Services Board’s Wellbeing Plan 2018-23.