Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 1:30 pm on 16 November 2016.
Thank you for that, Cabinet Secretary. The activities of Communities First weren’t popular with town and community councils on all occasions, or indeed with some local groups, and I’m not the only one who heard about community activists, about tanks on lawns and takeovers, and so on. Now, I don’t care who’s right or wrong in this, but I am concerned that a silo mindset and an unwillingness to share responsibility has become rooted in some cases. Do you believe, with the mechanism of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, that it’s possible to trust the organisations already in existence within our communities to share power and responsibility for enhancing the power of communities to deal more directly with their own challenges without the need for an artificial creation such as Communities First?