Well-Being Assessment Structured?
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1 Contents INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................................3 1. What do we mean by ‘well-being’? ..................................................................................................... 3 How are we assessing well-being? ................................................................................................ 4 What does well-being mean to people in Pembrokeshire?.......................................................... 6 How is our Well-being Assessment structured? ........................................................................... 6 Analysis of community areas ........................................................................................................ 8 Sustainable Development principle .............................................................................................. 9 2. Pembrokeshire in context .................................................................................................................... 9 People ........................................................................................................................................... 9 Rurality and access ...................................................................................................................... 11 Place and community .................................................................................................................. 13 Health .......................................................................................................................................... 18 Environment................................................................................................................................ 20 Economy ...................................................................................................................................... 24 Summary ..................................................................................................................................... 25 3. New beginnings ..................................................................................................................................26 Summary ..................................................................................................................................... 29 4. Childhood ...........................................................................................................................................30 Summary ..................................................................................................................................... 35 5. Youth ..................................................................................................................................................35 Summary ..................................................................................................................................... 40 6. Adulthood ..........................................................................................................................................40 Summary ..................................................................................................................................... 47 7. Older people ......................................................................................................................................48 Summary ..................................................................................................................................... 52 8. Future trends .....................................................................................................................................53 Population and demography ...................................................................................................... 53 Climate Change ........................................................................................................................... 54 Economy and society .................................................................................................................. 57 What might work look like in the future? ................................................................................... 58 What might public services look like in the future? ................................................................... 59 9. Further development and evidence gaps ..........................................................................................60 10. Next steps...........................................................................................................................................61 11. Chapter summaries ............................................................................................................................62 Pembrokeshire in context ........................................................................................................... 62 New beginnings ........................................................................................................................... 63 Childhood .................................................................................................................................... 63 Youth ........................................................................................................................................... 64 Adulthood ................................................................................................................................... 64 Older people ............................................................................................................................... 65 2 INTRODUCTION This is the Well-being Assessment for Pembrokeshire produced by Pembrokeshire’s Public Services Board (PSB). The PSB is a statutory requirement under the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act. The Act requires that public bodies in each local authority area work together to improve the economic, environmental, social and cultural well-being of its area and the communities which comprise the area. Membership of the PSB is comprised of representatives from the following organisations: Pembrokeshire County Council Pembrokeshire Association of Hywel Dda University Health Board Voluntary Services Mid and West Wales Fire and Pembrokeshire College Rescue Service Port of Milford Haven Natural Resources Wales Public Health Wales Dyfed-Powys Police PLANED Police and Crime Commissioner Job Centre Plus Pembrokeshire Coast National National Probation Service Park Authority Welsh Government The actions the PSB will take to improve well-being will be set out in a Well-being Plan for Pembrokeshire. In order to inform the Plan the Act requires that PSBs must first assess the state of well-being in its area and communities in the form of a local Well- being Assessment. If you would like more information about the Well-being Assessment, Well-being Plan or more generally about PSB working, please contact Nick Evans, Partnership and Scrutiny Support Manager at [email protected] or visit the Pembrokeshire PSB web pages. 3 1. What do we mean by ‘well-being’? The Well-being of Future Generations Act establishes 7 national well-being goals to make Wales a better place to live. While the focus of our Well-being Assessment and Well-being Plan is local, the national Well-being Goals provide the overarching framework for our work. By aligning local activity with these Goals, the PSB will make a contribution to improving the well-being of Wales as a whole. Of course, the challenge is to define “well- being” and to design appropriate interventions and solutions aimed at improving it. This requires a very different approach to a traditional public sector focus on issues such as ‘need’ or ‘demand’ and a move to solutions which are more preventative, integrated, sustainable and long-term. In simple terms there is not a straightforward answer to the question “what is well-being?” as it means different things to different people. For some it will mean being fit and healthy, for others it will be feeling safe in their homes and communities, and for others it will mean enjoying the outdoors. More often than not, it will be a combination of factors. This is why it is important we find out as much as we can about well-being so we can begin to broadly understand what matters most to people. How are we assessing well-being? We have based our assessment around 3 key elements: We have listened to people. As ‘well-being’ is such a nebulous term the most important thing to understand is what matters most to people in making them feel happy in their lives. We have engaged widely with Pembrokeshire people and asked them 2 simple questions – 4 “what does well-being mean to you?” and “how would you like it to look in the future?” At various events over the summer and early autumn, people expressed their views on well-being by completing a tag and hanging it on our Well-being Tree and by responding through other media such as sound bites and photos. We have also worked with specific stakeholder and community groups to explore what factors are important to well-being for particular interest groups or in particular areas of our County. We also used a survey which was posted to a sample of residents as well as being widely promoted on a variety of partner websites and social media for people to complete on-line. We received 2282 responses to our survey broken down as follows: 68% of respondents were of typical working age (aged