Carmarthenshire Public Services Board (PSB) Well-being Plan 2018-2023 First Annual Report JUNE 2019 01 Foreword 02 PSB Well‐being Plan 03 PSB Structure 04 Regional Working 06 Five Ways of Working 09 PSB Well‐being Objective ‐ Healthy Habits 10 PSB Well‐being Objective ‐ Early Intervention and Prevention 12 PSB Well‐being Objective ‐ Strong Connections 13 PSB Well‐being Objective ‐ Prosperous People and Places 15 Safer Communities Partnership 17 Development areas for the coming year Foreword I am delighted to present the first annual report of the Carmarthenshire PSB following the publication of our Well‐being Plan on 4th May 2018. The Carmarthenshire PSB was formed in May 2016, bringing together senior representatives from a number of organisations providing public services to our residents. Our vision is to improve the economic, social, environmental and cultural well‐being of the county’s residents by working collaboratively to add value to each other’s services and also to develop innovative approaches to meet the needs of our communities. We have been working together over the last year to ensure we have the right structure in place and the right partners involved to deliver our Well‐being Plan. Our new Delivery Groups have identified key actions to focus the collaborative work to be progressed, looking at how we can do things differently together, and this will involve building on engagement with local communities. As PSB partners we are all committed to fulfilling our responsibilities to improving the social, economic, cultural and environmental well‐being of the people of Carmarthenshire whilst fully respecting the diverse nature of our bilingual communities. Promoting and developing the use of the Welsh language is central to our way of working and we will ensure that all of our activities contribute towards increasing the number of Welsh speakers in Carmarthenshire further and achieving the Welsh Government target of one million Welsh speakers in Wales by 2050. I am excited about what we are starting to achieve and know that all PSB partners remain committed to working collaboratively to make a real difference to the lives of our residents. Barry Liles, Chairman of PSB & Pro Vice‐Chancellor (Skills & Lifelong Learning), University of Wales Trinity Saint David 01 PSB Well‐being Plan The Plan outlines how the PSB partners will work together to address some of the key issues affecting the well‐being of the citizens and communities of the County. These partners are: The Plan focuses on the delivery of four well‐being objectives, identified following extensive engagement with frontline staff, residents and other key stakeholders: Healthy Habits ‐ People have a good quality of life and make healthy choices about their lives and environment. Early Intervention ‐ To make sure that people have the right help at the right time; as and when they need it. Strong Connections ‐ Strongly connected people, places and organisations that are able to adapt to change. Prosperous People and Places ‐ To maximise opportunities for people and places in both urban and rural parts of our county. 02 PSB Structure The PSB agreed its new structure in March 2018 to ensure the effective delivery of its Plan. This consisted of the establishment of a series of the delivery of progress against the Well‐being Plan. Groups are administered by the Council’s PSB Support Delivery Groups in order to make progress against the In June 2018, engagement work was undertaken with Team and the team also acts as a conduit between short‐term actions within the PSB’s well‐being the identified members of the Delivery Groups to the Delivery Groups in order to identify areas of objectives. An Expert Lead, Vice Chair and Lead ensure a common understanding of the PSB’s Plan possible collaboration and avoid duplication. Officer was identified for each of the main Delivery and approach to its implementation. All were able to Information about the work of these Delivery Groups Groups ‐ Healthy Environment (Environmental Risk contribute to the development of the groups’ project is included later in this report. Assessment), Early Intervention and Prevention plans to identify how the groups would deliver the (Changing the Model of Delivery), Strong Connections actions required. The PSB requested a review of the statutory (Innovative Community Assets) and Prosperous Community Safety Partnership which reports to the People and Places (Education and The Delivery Groups first met during July‐September PSB, to ensure that it continued to be fit for purpose Employment/Procurement Procedures). 2018 and have spent time building relationships and assist with the delivery of the Well‐being Plan between partners, understanding their role and remit, and partner priorities as appropriate. Workshop The PSB structure will be regularly reviewed to ensure agreeing priority areas and developing a project plan sessions were held in September 2018 to review the that it best supports the work of the Board, including to deliver against the Well‐being Plan. These Delivery role of the ‘Fair and Safe Communities’ group ‐ now renamed ‘Safer Communities Partnership‘ ‐ what its priorities should be, the structure needed to deliver Carmarthenshire PSB those priorities and who needed to be involved. It was an opportunity to consider best use of partner resources, consider reducing the number of meetings people have to attend and to improve information Healthy Habits - Early Intervenon Strong Prosperous People Safer sharing and awareness amongst partners about the Healthy & Prevenon Connecons & Places Delivery Communies / key issues and actions to be taken forward. Environment Delivery Group Delivery Group Group CONTEST / Information about the work of this Partnership is Delivery Group - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Serious & included later in this report. - - - - - Changing the Innovave Procurement Organised Crime Environmental & Model of Delivery Community Assets Procedures / Climate Change Educaon & Risk Assessment Employment 03 Regional Working There have been significant developments in working regionally during the last year. This has been in three distinct areas: 1 ‐ between PSB lead officers from Carmarthenshire, • A successful bid for Welsh Government ‘Enabling Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, Natural Resources and Well‐being’ funding for a pilot 2 ‐ with the three PSBs and West Wales Regional project in 2019/20 ‐ ‘Green Health and Access West Partnership Board, Wales’. The £40,000 project aims to improve health 3 ‐ a joint Regional meeting of Carmarthenshire, and well‐being by being active outdoors and engaging Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Powys PSBs in with nature. It brings together partners across the June 2018. three counties and will investigate current greenspace provision for local communities, support providers of PSB lead officers green health initiatives to promote best practice and The close working with the PSB leads for Ceredigion and work directly with the health sector, raise the profile Pembrokeshire seen during the development of the of social prescribing to ‘nature‐based health care’ and Well‐being Assessment and Well‐being Plan has build strong partnerships between the healthcare and continued. Regular meetings are held between the environmental sectors. This will be achieved by officers and the main areas of work during the last year mapping greenspace against community needs, have been: undertaking a skills and training audit and forming a network of green health practitioners, health sector • the completion of a specification for an innovative referral organisations and relevant public bodies. It is regional Digital Information System. This is an online hoped that the pilot project will be used to develop a platform to help with future well‐being assessments, larger funding bid to assessing performance, reporting arrangements and deliver improvements in engagement opportunities. It will provide a greenspace access and responsive and efficient means of monitoring and training for green assessing data, reducing duplication of effort. The health providers. data collection and analysis of that data would be improved, external data would be added as it was Swansea Bay updated and all data sources would be housed City Deal Area together. This work was jointly commissioned by the three PSBs Hywel Dda University using regional funding from Welsh Government. Health Board Area 04 • The PSB decided at its March 2019 meeting to invite the RPB to attend the PSB and to include the RPB as a standing agenda item. Regional PSB The inaugural meeting of a regional PSB was held on Links with the West Wales Regional Partnership 25th June 2018, hosted by Pembrokeshire PSB, and Board (RPB) was attended by representatives from • Regular meetings are taking place between the PSB Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and leads for Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Powys PSBs. A number of presentations were given to Pembrokeshire with the Head of Regional update on current key matters including Adverse Collaboration, the officer lead for the West Wales Childhood Experiences, the regional Violence Against Regional Partnership Board to consider Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence collaborative working and ensuring the Boards’ Strategy, the Health Board’s ‘Transforming Clinical work is complementary. Clear overlaps and links Services’ proposal and the proposed Digital have been identified between the priorities of the Information System. The meeting also gave PSBs and the RPB especially in relation to opportunities to network.