Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 2:52 pm on 28 June 2017.
Thank you. Well, building on the theme of the last few questions, the routes out of poverty you identify I completely share, but unless you get to the root causes of the problems that people face, often the routes out of poverty won’t be accessed. Last week, your colleague, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government told the Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee that the job of local authorities is to identify and capture the strengths and assets of people in that area. We’ve heard of co-production principles, but they’re about things that you say you support—equality, mutuality, working alongside the people, doing things with them rather than to them and for them so that they move from being passive recipients to active participants. What meetings or discussions have you therefore had—now 13 months after its launch—with the co-production network for Wales so that you can engage, share and learn together on the methodologies, which are working in communities in Wales, UK and across the world, and have been doing for decades, and can significantly help deliver the solutions that we all seek?