Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendation with an amendment to recommendation number 2 to provide for a substitute should the Cabinet Member be unavailable to attend.

Councillor Roberts introduced the report and explained that the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 required specific public bodies to work together under a Public Services Board (PSB) to improve local economic, social, environmental and cultural well-being.

Responsibilities of PSBs included periodically preparing and publishing an assessment of local well-being, which was used to inform the setting of local well-being objectives that were contained within a five year local Well-being plan.

Prior to publishing a new Well-being Plan, the PSB was required to consult a number of statutory consultees, including the Local Authority Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

The draft Well-being Plan 2023-28 was appended to the report for consideration.

A team of officers drawn from partner organisations involved in the work of

both Flintshire and Wrexham’s PSBs have worked together to produce a draft Well-being Plan for 2023-28.

Based on the evidence and insight highlighted by the well-being assessment; existing priorities of the PSB; and the learning and reflection from joint PSB working on community resilience over the last two years, the team of officers had produced a draft Well-being Plan that identified the key actions needed to deliver two well-being objectives for 2023-2028:

• Build flourishing communities by reducing inequalities across

environment, education, employment, income and housing.

• Improve community well-being by enabling people of all ages to live

healthy and independent lives.

The Chief Executive added that the plan needed to be adopted before 4^th May.  The draft plan was appended to the report for any comments which would be fed into the plan.

Councillor Johnson explained that the report had been submitted to Corporate Resources Overview and Scrutiny Committee the previous week and Members were asked to submit any comments outside of that meeting.

RESOLVED:

That the draft Flintshire and Wrexham Well-being Plan for 2023-28 be supported.