Public Services and Well-being Goals

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and Public Services – in the Senedd at 2:55 pm on 9 May 2018.

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Photo of Dawn Bowden Dawn Bowden Labour 2:55, 9 May 2018

I thank the Cabinet Secretary for that answer, because delivering well-being in all our policies is clearly a major challenge that's going to be facing our public services. It's going to require a set of outcome measures for our public services that, in turn, will help to provide them with a clear focus on community well-being.

Public services, as you will appreciate, have a huge collective responsibility in terms of providing homes, in promoting mental health and well-being and in ensuring that the NHS continues to transform into a well-being service and not just an ill-health service. Do you agree, therefore, particularly in these times of austerity, that personal and community well-being has to be supported not just as an abstract notion, but as a key economic driver in our communities and that we should place much more emphasis on delivering a set of outcome measures for public services that provide them with a clear focus on community well-being that will improve people's lives now and into the future?