Public Services and Well-being Goals

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and Public Services – in the Senedd at 2:56 pm on 9 May 2018.

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Photo of Alun Davies Alun Davies Labour 2:56, 9 May 2018

Presiding Officer, can I say how much I agree with the premise of the question and the principles underpinning that question? I think, in many ways, public services are the bedrock of our civilisation. How we deal with people and how we provide services for, sometimes, the most vulnerable people in our communities speaks to us of who we are as a country and who we are as a people.

I absolutely agree and I agree with the imperatives underpinning the well-being of future generations Act to deliver a more holistic approach to understanding how we deliver improvements in our communities. I would like to see how we do bring together economic, social and environmental indicators to deliver a far richer view of how we understand our communities in the future, and I'm looking forward to seeing and reading the well-being goals and the well-being policies that are being developed at the moment, and how far local authorities and others are able to come in delivering on that vision and that ambition.