Agenda and minutes

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·         Questions must relate to matters on the open part of the Agenda of the meeting, and will be dealt with in a 10 minute period

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·         To approve & sign the Notes of the previous meeting(s) as a correct record.

·         Approved

·         Councillor Rob Stewart – Vice Chair of PSB, Leader of Swansea Council

·         Councillor Clive Lloyd came to represent Swansea Council on the Statutory Member Q&A

·         Governance and joint partnership working will be important going forward

·         The County Lives/Substance Misuse project is an excellent example of joint working within the PSB. Tangible outcomes and actions by all partners involved, joint location of services

·         The Plan demonstrates where the Board want to be, they need to remain flexible and be responsive

• The objectives capture areas of focus partners can buy into
• Pooled budgets are not in the foreseeable future
• Legislation requires to focus on certain objectives, lots of consultation to get them, broad and flexible
• The objectives are what people said they want
• Need to produce an annual report, the right governance structure being in place will reduce bureaucracy
• The governance review will help with structure clarity
• Concerns that there are no resources in place to help deliver against actions
• Small areas of improvement, the success will be if collaborative work becomes business as usual
• There is funding of a Natural Resources Wales Green Infrastructure project which came about as a result of PSB work
• The Commissioners have impact and influence over local Councils if they feel PSB is not working as it should
• The role of ABMU is much more positive with a Local Area Co-ordinator role funding by ABMU in place in Llansamlet

·         Councillor Mark Child – Cabinet Member - Care, Health & Ageing Well

·         Jane Whitmore - Partnership and Commissioning Manager

·         6 key areas for the live well/age well action plan

·         Listened to people of all ages to feed into the plan

·         The ‘Big Conversation’ was around intergenerational work from ages 7+ and included lots of services

·         Worked closely with Development and Regeneration to feed into the City Centre Development. Linking in with Planning Officers to ensure public views are regularly heard

·         Common ground working – safety, loneliness, mental health, access to services and transport

·         Same themes are reoccurring – similar issues identified in a previous scrutiny activity

·         The issue of young people with dementia needs to be publicised more

·         Swansea is recognised as a successful dementia friendly City by the Older Persons Commissioner

·         Mental health is a big issue and young people want access to transport

·         Must involve the correct people when feeding back but conversations but translate into delivery

·         Trying to close the feedback loop with a co-productive approach

·         The Big Conversation is a quality feedback mechanism and involves the correct people

·         The 50+ network is expanding via the Local Area Co-ordinators

·         ‘Sporting Memories’ is a project aimed at people with dementia – will relay back to the executive lead and collaborate – PSB in action

·         PSB can be a vehicle to make progress on long term issues

·         ‘Making Every Contact Count’ developed by PSB – holistic approach e.g. fire check and home safety

·         Suzy Richards – Sustainable Policy Officer

·         Significant outputs as a result of PSB – will be reported in the annual report

·         Governance root cause of accountability, resources, risk, finance and responsibility

·         Steering group set up to explore best practice, legal and governance expertise drawn from existing PSB

·         Governance and Action Plans should be brought together

·         The governance review will inform success monitoring and reporting

·         Discussed

·         One of the meetings of the 2019/20 work plan to be held in the Faith in Families venue – arrange via Cherrie Bija Co-optee