Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and Public Services – in the Senedd at 2:38 pm on 3 October 2018.
Yes. Thanks. We will see a variety of different working methods, I'm sure, and it may not be the same from one area to the next. Hopefully, they will work effectively. Now, the public services boards in Gwent—or what used to be Gwent—may be a good model. We were told on the committee that many PSBs in Gwent may be local authority led, but they don't feel as though they are local authority dominated. Another part of the public services boards is the voluntary organisations or the third sector, as we now often call them. A couple of the witnesses at the committee scrutiny said that PSBs have felt quite bureaucratic thus far, and haven't felt close to the third sector. Do you feel this to be the case, and how can this be improved going forward?