Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendation.

Councillor Bithell introduced the Welsh Public Library Standards: Review of Performance 2015/16 report.

                        The fifth quality framework of Welsh Public Library Standards that was operated within provided opportunities for libraries to deliver services in innovative ways including the flexibility to make best use of the resources available to them.  Library services contributed to a range of Welsh Government (WG) outcomes such as literacy, skills and learning, digital inclusion, poverty, and health and well-being.  The framework was themes around four core service aspects:

·         Customers and communities;

·         Access for all;

·         Learning for life; and

·         Leadership and development

There were 18 core entitlements which outlined what residents could expect of their library service and in 2015-16 Flintshire met 17 of them in full and partially met one.  This was expected to be 18 in the next return as all service points would offer Wi-Fi.

There were 23 quality indicators, not all of which were measured by targets.  Of those measured by targets, Flintshire achieved two in full, four in part and did not meet one.

Councillor Shotton commented on the library in Holywell which had recently opened within the Leisure Centre.  He thanked everybody involved in the project which had received positive feedback locally.

RESOLVED:

            That the progress of delivery against Welsh Public Library Standards be noted.