Each Public Services Board (PSB) must prepare and publish a local Well-being Plan setting out its local objectives and the steps it proposes to meet them.
Each Public Services Board (PSB) must prepare and publish a local Well-being Plan setting out its local objectives, and the steps it proposes to meet them.
The Gwent PSB carried out its Well-being Assessment of the economic, social, environmental and cultural well-being of Gwent in 2021/22. You can read the Gwent Well-being Assessment, and the local assessments here Gwent Well-being Assessment – Gwent Public Services Board Gwent Public Services Board (gwentpsb.org). The PSB then used the information from the assessment to draft its Well-being Plan to help improve the region for its residents.
The Well-being Plan must set out:
The PSB must consult with people in the area, the Welsh Government, and the Future Generations Commissioner about their draft plan. The consultation on the draft Well-being plan ended on 31st December 2022. The feedback informed the final Well-being Plan for Gwent, which was approved by each of the statutory members of the Board before final approval by the PSB on 20th July 2023.
You can read about the consultation here: Consultation-Chapter.pdf (gwentpsb.org)
Once published the PSB needs to send a copy of its Well-being plan to Welsh Ministers, the Commissioner, the Auditor General for Wales and each of the local authority’s overview and scrutiny committees.
The plan must be published no later than 12 months following an ordinary local government election. Normally this would mean that the Plan would need to be published in May 2023. However, because the final plan needed to go to the Boards of the eight statutory members, it had agreement for a slight delay to publication. The Gwent PSB Well-being Plan Was published in August 2023. The Well-being Plan is available here: Gwent Well-being Plan – Gwent Public Services Board Gwent Public Services Board (gwentpsb.org) along with a number of supporting documents.
