Policy Forum for Wales Keynote Seminar

Assessing progress on improving well-being in Wales – implementing Public Service Boardwell-being plans and sharing good practice

with

Noreen Blanluet, Director, Co-production Network for Wales; Duncan Mackenzie, Senior Consultant, Data Cymru; Dr Alan Netherwood, Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University and Clare Pillman, Chief Executive, Natural Resources Wales

Bydd cyfieithu ar y pryd ar gael yn y gynhadledd hon

Simultaneous translation will be available at this conference

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Morning, Thursday, 27th June 2019

Central Cardiff

Note: fees apply to most delegates, but concessionary and complimentary places are available (subject to terms and conditions – see below).

This seminar focuses on well-being in Wales and will assess progress on implementing measures in the 2015 Well-being of Future Generations Act.

It will be a timely opportunity for policymakers and key stakeholders to review the first annual reports from the Public Service Boards (PSBs) and their Well-being Plans, and to discuss further priorities, next steps, and sharing lessons learnt and best practice.

As discussion will focus on the work of PSBs, especially with regard to local well-being plans, we thought this might be of particular interest. There will also be speaking contributions from Clare Pillman, Chief Executive, Natural Resources Wales and Duncan Mackenzie, Senior Consultant, Data Cymru.

Delegates will discuss how PSBs and other public bodies are meeting their duties under the Act – which includes a requirement to take future public well-being into account when making decisions.

They will consider evidence, research and data on what is currently working and what is not, and how experience so far might affect the future direction of policy and development of good practice.

Planned sessions will bring out insights into PSB work in practice, the challenges faced and how they are being addressed, including how citizens can be better involved in designing and delivering policy, as well as how bodies can be held accountable for their working.

We also expect discussion of innovative practice with examples that have brought about benefits for communities and more widely.

Further discussion will look at how such practice can be effectively shared and replicated across Wales – looking at the culture, mindset, resources and leadership needed to cultivate innovative practice, and the potential pitfalls that need to be avoided if communities are to make the most of the well-being plans.

Overall areas for discussion include:

• Implementation – next steps for Public Service Board working and identifying solutions for local needs;
• Assessment – priorities for accountability strategies, and how well-being plans can be effectively scrutinised in their locality; and
• Sharing good practice – looking at various examples of innovation which have improved outcomes under the 4 pillars – economic, social, cultural and environmental.

The draft agenda is copied below my signature, and a regularly updated version is available to download here. The seminar is organised on the basis of strict impartiality by the Policy Forum for Wales. Follow us @PFWEvents for live updates.

Speakers

We are delighted to be able to include in this seminar keynote addresses from: Noreen Blanluet, Director, Co-production Network for Wales; Duncan Mackenzie, Senior Consultant, Data Cymru; Dr Alan Netherwood, Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University and Clare Pillman, Chief Executive, Natural Resources Wales.

Additional senior participants are being approached, but if you or a colleague would like to be considered as a speaker at this seminar, please contact us at [email protected]specifying the event and session where you would like to speak and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible. If you are offering to speak yourself please don’t fill in the booking form, as this will be taken as an order and you will be charged for a place subject to our T&Cs.

Networking

Policy Forum for Wales seminars present an opportunity to engage with key policymakers and other interested parties, and are CPD certified (more details).Typically, attendees at our seminars are a senior and informed group numbering 120, including Members of the National Assembly for Wales and senior officials from the Welsh Government, commissioners, regulators and other agencies, representatives of trade unions and public service boards, local government, local health boards, schools, charities, social care, health professionals, specialist academics, businesses and housing associations, together with reporters from the national and trade press based in Wales and elsewhere.

Output and About Us

A key output of the seminar will be a transcript of the proceedings, sent out around 12 working days after the event to all attendees and a wider group of Ministers and officials in the Wales Office and Welsh Government departments affected by the issues; as well as Assembly Members with a special interest in the subject. It will also be made available more widely. This document will include transcripts of all speeches and questions and answers sessions from the day, along with access to PowerPoint presentations, speakers’ biographies, an attendee list, an agenda, sponsor information, as well as any subsequent press coverage of the day and any articles or comment pieces submitted by delegates. It is made available subject to strict restrictions on public use, and is intended to provide timely information for interested parties who are unable to attend on the day.

All delegates will receive complimentary PDF copies and are invited to contribute to the content.

The Policy Forum for Wales is strictly impartial and cross-party. The Forum has no policy agenda of its own.

Booking arrangements

To book places, please use our online booking form.

Once submitted, this will be taken as a confirmed booking and will be subject to our terms and conditions below.

Please pay in advance by credit card on 01344 864796. If advance credit card payment is not possible, please let me know and we may be able to make other arrangements.

Options and charges are as follows:

• Places at Assessing progress on improving well-being in Wales – implementing Public Service Board well-being plans and sharing good practice (including refreshments and PDF copy of the transcripts) are £230 plus VAT;
• Concessionary rate places for small charities, unfunded individuals and those in similar circumstances are £85 plus VAT. Please be sure to apply for this at the time of booking.

For those who cannot attend:

• Copies of the briefing document, including full transcripts of all speeches and the questions and comments sessions and further articles from interested parties, will be available approximately 12 days after the event for £95 plus VAT;
• Concessionary rate: £50 plus VAT.

If you find the charge for places a barrier to attending, please let me know as concessionary and complimentary places are made available in certain circumstances (but do be advised that this typically applies to individual service users or carers or the like who are not supported by or part of an organisation, full-time students, people between jobs or who are fully retired with no paid work, and representatives of small charities – not businesses, individuals funded by an organisation, or larger charities/not-for-profit companies). Please note terms and conditions below (including cancellation charges).

FINANCIAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS: The delegate fee includes copies of the presentations via PDF and refreshments. Cancellation policy is as follows: (1) cancellations 14 or more days before the event: £75+VAT cancellation fee per delegate; (2) cancellations less than 14 days before the event: full fee applies. Promotion cancellation fee applies to all Five for Four offer places. Cancellations must be submitted via the website. If you are unable to submit your cancellation via the website then the cancellation must be notified in writing tothe Policy Forum for Wales. No charge will be made for replacement delegates. Transfer of any confirmed booking between events is not possible. The organisers reserve the right to alter the programme and change the speakers without prior notice. The Policy Forum for Wales is unable to grant extended credit and therefore must request that full payment be made within 30 days from the date of invoice; immediate payment on receipt of invoice less than 14 days before the event. Should payment not be received within the stated terms, the Policy Forum for Waleswill apply an administration charge of £40+VAT.

Policy Forum for Wales Keynote Seminar:

Assessing progress on improving well-being in Wales – implementing Public Service Board

well-being plans and sharing good practice

Draft agenda subject to change