Agenda item

·                 Early Years – Swansea Bay University Health Board;

·                 Live Well, Age Well – Adam Hill, Swansea Council;

·                 Working With Nature – Martyn Evans, Natural Resources Wales;

·                 Strong Communities – Roger Thomas, Mid & West Wales Fire & Rescue Service.

·                 Early Years

Joanne Abbott-Davies explained that Sandra Husbands, one of the Project Leads for the workstream had left the Health Board and it had been proposed that Keith Reed would be covering. 

She stated that following discussions at the Partnership Forum, both the PSB and the Health Board needed to be more focused on exactly what they were trying to achieve that was “additional” to the day job and not “business as usual”.  What were they doing that added value as a result of being part of the PSB or informed by the PSB that would not have been done otherwise. 

In addition, she stated that as a PSB we needed to be clearer about the parameters and the resources of each partner and how to best utilise these to achieve the outcomes.

·                 Live Well Age Well

Adam Hill stated that even though they were a little further forward in some regards in relation to the priorities outlined on page 19, the targets needed to be ‘SMART’ and he agreed that more detail was required in relation to what was being done that was not “normal business”.

In addition, he outlined the challenges / barriers and risks that seemed to be a common theme throughout all the worksteams.  It was acknowledged that the Joint Committee was the strategic part of the PSB with the work being carried out within the 4 worksteams.

·                 Working with Nature

Martyn Evans outlined the good work that had commenced in relation to:

·                 Green Infrastructure Strategy – common ownership established with other public bodies in the City Centre to make Swansea better connected.  He did not think this work would have been undertaken without the involvement of the PSB.  The work had been identified as beneficial to all involved and the wider community;

·                 Urban Tree Planting – Green roof on Morriston Post Office, opportunities with the Health Board as a big land owner, discussions commenced with South Wales Transport in relation to train corridors, pollination lines, species, water ways, etc.  The Health Board commented that they had since focussed on the benefit of incorporating green space into future projects;

·                 Area Natural Resource Management Statement due to be published on 31 March 2020 – ambitious action plan in progress.

·                 Strong Communities

Councillor Jan Curtice, Chair of Mid & West Wales Fire Authority apologised that an update had not been provided on the outstanding actions.  However, Amanda Carr clarified that the actions should relate to the “Real Living Wage” rather than the Living Wage.  All partners needed to ensure they were paying the “Real Living Wage”.

She stated that a considerable amount of work had been undertaken in this workstream in terms of removing unnecessary detail and in terms of getting the right people on board.  Again, the workstream needed to focus on things it could do differently.

Agreed that the updates be noted.