INfocusISSUE 11April 2016

NEWSLETTER OF ADSS CYMRU REVIEW OF SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL SERVICES PROGRAMME

As I reflect back on my year as President, my overriding thoughts are about the professionalism, mutual respect and support demonstrated by Directors, Heads of Service and their teams when carrying out ADSSC activities.

This is collaborative leadership in action; motivated by citizen focussed values and aspirations to improve people’s lives. The past year has been very busy for us all, working with Welsh Government and partner agencies to shape policy and guidance emerging from the two key pieces of distinctly Welsh legislation, shaping the future of social care and well-being. We need to remind ourselves that ADSSC activities are voluntary and several people have provided strong and effective leadership over many years, with new Directors and Heads of Service stepping up to provide new blood and a fresh perspective, as others move on to pastures new. This is one of the key strengths of ADSSC membership – a way of providing a strong professional voice across the nation, which transcends changes in personality.

I am delighted to be “passing the baton” of Presidency to Neil Ayling, Flintshire and I wish him well for a successful conference and year ahead – I know he will provide excellent leadership. One of my early tests as President was having 4 major speakers stuck in fog in Cardiff Airport, when they were due to present to National Conference – I never imagined I would be reading key messages from the Minister from Albert’s phone! Some things cannot be planned for and we are well used to that in our day jobs.

There is much to be celebrated for ADSSC in this past year. Key highlights include the significant influence to WG policy, national adoption service, national safeguarding board, national fostering framework, SSWBAct Implementation Plan, independent advocacy, Social Care Wales. We have also provided professional responses to H & SS Committee, major consultations and held round table discussions on key issues eg National Living Wage, Care Homes Quality, Family Justice Board and many other topics. All these contributions have ensured a strong professional voice for social care in Wales.

Our seminars have provided opportunity for shared learning, with a much clearer focus on outcomes for citizens at these sessions. We have evidenced excellent practice across Wales and hope we have inspired continuous improvement for each other.

I must pay tribute to the business unit, effectively directed by Gabe, which keeps the machinery going; ensuring that representatives are found for key

events and activities – I have been impressed by the level of volunteering, which you can only see when you take on the President role and have a helicopter view of all the business.

As I move onto pastures new in the next few months, I wish ADSSC continued success and look forward to a new relationship as a key partner.

Sue Evans Outgoing President of ADSS Cymru

President’s Corner

Workforce Policy Group

One of the most fundamental changes introduced by the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 is the creation of Social Care Wales, a successor body to the Care Council for Wales established in 2001.

In addition to previous responsibilities held for regulating the workforce, new requirements will be placed on the new body.

For example, it will be expected to research & develop service models of excellence that support the aims of the Social Services & Well-being (Wales) Act and promote their implementation across Wales with the emphasis on the promotion of the Well-being of citizens and outcomes for users. Essentially a cultural shift towards citizen and community led models.

It will be expected to plan workforce requirements to deliver on those new service models supported by qualification frameworks and standards of practice.

It will also be expected to particularly encourage the social care workforce to work in co-production with people using our services, their families, communities and agencies working with them.

So new ways of working for members of the workforce and for many of them a requirement to become registered as the social care register is extended to include all domiciliary workers by 2020 and adult residential care workers by 2022.

Liz Majer and Ellis Williams Project Leads for Workforce

Continuous Improvement and Innovation

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On behalf of Welsh Government, a strategic review of the evidence in relation to statutory independent professional advocacy services (SIPAS) for children and young people was undertaken by Dr Mike Shooter in 2014. Following this review, Ministers invited local government (via ADSS Cymru) to bring forward a model for securing a national approach to SIPAS for looked after children and specified groups of children in need.

An advocacy Task and Finish Group (T&FG) was established take this work forward, chaired by ADSS Cymru. The T&FG took responsibility for developing the key components of a National Approach to advocacy, aligned to a Standards and Outcomes Framework. The group was asked to explore:

• the recommendation from ‘Missing Voices: Right to be Heard’ (the report by the Children’s Commissioner on independent advocacy services for children and young people in the care system) in respect of an the ‘active offer’; and

• how to deliver the National Approach model at a regional level through lead authorities within the existing Social Services Regional Improvement Collaboratives.

The work of the T&FG has led to the development of a business case which will be submitted to the Minister for Health and Social Services. A copy of the T&FG report is available on the following link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8inqw8n1tysg66j/National%20Approach%20to%20Statutory%20Advocacy%20for%20Children%20and%20Young%20People.pdf?dl=0.

At the most recent meeting of the Social Services Policy Group, Elected Members with responsibility for Social Services considered the implications of adopting a national approach as set out in the business case. It was agreed that, in principle, they were content to examine further how local authorities could take forward a national approach. However, in recognition of the additional costs that have been identified, it was accepted that the next step would be for each local authority to receive further information on the national approach (with regional elements) and, in particular, the potential financial implications for their individual authorities. This would enable them to come to an informed view and to engage with other authorities in their region, gauging the level of support for the national approach.

ADSS Cymru have discussed the proposals as they were being developed. The Executive Council has expressed general support for the direction of travel as proposed in the Business Case. Further discussions are to be held with Welsh Government about the financial contribution it may be willing to make towards the additional funding identified as new costs in the business case. Welsh Government will be keen to ensure that progress is being made on ensuring that all relevant children across Wales receive a consistent service, an active offer and access to statutory advocacy services as required.

Local Government has been asked to communicate to the Minister its intentions on developing further the work already done on SIPAS and on the current proposals that make up a national approach, including whether the business case is supported. We will be collating the views of all local authorities to be able to inform these discussions.

Phil Evans Director of Social Services, The Vale of Glamorgan Council, and Stewart Blythe Policy Officer, Social Services and Health, WLGA

A National Approach to Statutory Advocacy for Children and Young People

One of the key issues raised by Providers in their discussions with commissioners is the multiplicity of standards that they are required to meet. Providers regularly voice their frustration of having to meet one set of standards for the Care & Social Services Inspectorate for Wales (CSSIW) whilst commissioners often have different requirements that can lead them to draw differing conclusions with regard to the quality of a service.

The National Commissioning Board has committed in its work programme to develop an integrated and coherent model for quality assurance. This will describe the responsibilities of providers, commissioners (health and social care), individual health and social care professionals, residents, their families and regulators. It is the intention of the Board that this work will be completed by October 2016.

In addition the Board will also develop outcome focussed model contracts and specifications for care homes covering long and short term placements. Consistent specifications clearly laying out the requirements of all parties will be a clearer understanding of expectations and overcome some of the difficulties currently being experienced.

Dave Street Corporate Director for Social Services, Caerphilly County Borough Council

Commissioning

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The safeguarding policy group has reviewed its work plan and agreed that the key theme should be developing stronger working relationships and accountability with a range of partners.

As a result the work priorities are linked to:

• Child exploitation• Implementation of Part 7, Safeguarding of the Social Services and Well-

being Act• Develop effective working relationships with the Regional Safeguarding

Boards and the National Safeguarding Board• Build stronger links and shared responsibilities with ADEW, NHS and

police• Keep up to date with best practice and research

As part of building relationships with colleagues in Education a small group of representatives from the Policy Group will be joining ADEW at their meeting in June in order to establish some clear objectives and set some joint priorities for promoting safeguarding practice. A similar piece of work is also ongoing with colleagues in the police and in the NHS.

The Policy Group recently welcomed Dr Margaret Flynn to join one of our meetings. Dr Flynn has recently completed workshop sessions to all the regional adult safeguarding boards where she presented the findings from her report ‘In Search of Accountability, a review of the neglect of older people living in care homes investigated as Operation Jasmine’ .The workshop also provided an opportunity for safeguarding boards to present examples of good practice from different Homes. Dr Flynn was able to share with us the main outcomes from these workshops and her summing up and recommendations that have gone back into Welsh Government. We look forward to working with Dr Flynn in her new role as Chair of the national Safeguarding Board.

Professor John Williams from Aberystwyth University has also attended a Policy group to share with us the research project ‘Justice for Elder Abuse’. The university has been successful in attracting a Big Lottery Grant of 893k, over a 3 year period in order to ‘raise awareness to victims of their options for justice’. Professor Williams has agreed to come back to the policy group in a years time to give us an update on progress and will also seek to use the group as a reference point for the research.

The next policy group meeting will be held in Gwent where the group will have a presentation from the Gwent Police on their Missing Childrens work.

Susan Cooper Corporate Director Social Services and Well-being, Bridgend County Borough Council

A stronger framework for Safeguarding

This is an area of work that should increasingly touch everything we do and as such, I have not held policy group meetings, but used every opportunity to remind myself and others about its fundamental importance.

So what does it mean? It should do ‘what it says on the tin’, i.e. that everything is informed and influenced by what matters to people. This will give people a much stronger voice and move beyond involving a group of ‘usual suspects’, an approach that can dangerously mean nothing more than another box has been ticked.

ADSS Cymru is involved in the project advisory group on a particularly important development, stimulated by the Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act – Citizen Directed Cooperatives Cymru, a project run jointly between Disability Wales and Wales Cooperative Centre. This project will work with one project, already selected, GOYA Cooperative, Monmouthshire, a collective involving 6 local organisations. Direct payment recipients are a critical part of the cooperative as specified by the invitation to apply and GOYA will look to expand services to neighbouring local authorities in Wales. More information is available from Disability Wales and/or Wales Cooperative Centre and the plan is to spread the message, the principles and the learning from this project throughout Wales.

With the implementation of the SSWB Act, we have to move away from citizen-centred services being simply initiatives, even though there is still room for more ground to be broken across Wales. The future has to be characterised by people always being given the chance to be involved in their own care, always consulted and always invited to join the struggle for ordinary (perhaps ‘extraordinary’ is more appropriate) people to have an increasingly strong voice.

People often say that direct payments are not the only response to citizen-directed services and that is obviously the case. However those people receiving direct payments, many of whom talk about ‘being in control for the first time in their lives’, should be encouraged to be advocates, to enable more people to see that direct payments have the potential to change lives for the better.

It is worth reminding ourselves that ‘citizen empowerment’ means handing over power and control to them and professionals using their remaining power and authority with absolute integrity and responsibility.

Sue Evans Chief Officer Social Care and Housing, Torfaen County Borough Council

Citizen-centred services

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The Policy Group welcomes new members to the group: Claire Lister, Head of Service, Integrated Adult and Community Services Conwy and Jonathan Griffiths, Head of Adult Services Pembrokeshire. Liz Majer has sadly left the group to pursue her new role. The policy group aims to meet regularly and pursue work on each of the following key issues for the group:

Collaboration between ADSS Cymru and RCGP Wales

ADSS Cymru has made strong links with Paul Myers, past President of the Royal College of GP’s. This collaboration is our attempt to show that by working more closely together, we can play an important role in strengthening the relationship between the workforce in primary care and social care, hence “reconciling the two different cultures in health and social care” (Partners for Better Care, 2014) and bridging the gap that currently exists. There is agreement that the continuing dominance of a ‘medical’ model of care, that encourages people’s dependency, is unhelpful, if we are to move towards a ‘social’ model of care, that promotes people’s independence. We are fortunate to have legislation that supports such change, The Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act and its implementation on 4th April 2016 reinforces the opportunity that is available to us. The principle of the Act is to concentrate on promoting and enhancing people’s well-being and that is one of the ambitions of this collaboration.

How we will go about making the necessary changes?

We will continue talking to and working with each other. RCGP is leading a session to the National Social Services Conference in June 2016 and we are exploring an opportunity for holding a fringe session at the RCGP conference in October 2016 to showcase this collaboration. We will continue to work closely with Welsh NHS Confederation and begin discussions with College of Occupational Therapy, Royal College of Nursing and School of Physiotherapy to ensure that we promote a whole system approach to our collaboration and one that aims to strengthen working holistically, in order that doing things together as different professionals and agencies becomes a default position.

ADSS Cymru collaboration with RCPsych Wales

Myself and Stewart Greenwell have very recently met with RCPsych in Wales, to focus on CAMHS. RCPsych are keen to work together with ADSS Cymru on strengthening our joint involvement in “Together 4 Children and Young People” (T4C&YP), a Welsh Government initiative, led by the Minister to address the serious concerns about CAMHS and strengthening the emotional Well-being of young people. The purpose of the meeting was to take forward this joint work with the need to focus on CAMHS, as it is of common concern.

The Policy Group are fortunate to have members from Betsi Cadwalader and Cwm Taff Health Boards. It was agreed in the last policy group meeting that the focus of the collaboration was to highlight critical issues that the health boards experience in the NHS with greater integration, associated pool budgets and locality working, learning disability and mental health, including children services. The key factor for the policy group is sharing joint experiences on what’s working well and what does not and offering mutual support to each other. This work will inform a theme at the ADSSC Action Policy Seminar on T 4 C and YP and related issues.

Primary Care

The funding in 2016/17 could be a helpful focus for considering how best to allocate it to meet agreed priorities between local government and NHS. This could be in addition to money allocated specifically for primary care. The next policy group meeting (18th April) will focus on Primary Care, along with a stocktake on priorities in the light of the potential new money available in 2016/17.

Neil Ayling Chief Officer of Social Services, Flintshire County Council

IntegrationI am writing this article as the outgoing chair of the Integration Policy Group and welcome Jake Morgan as the incoming chair of the group. Jake Morgan is the Director of Community Services Manager for Carmarthenshire County Council.

ADSS Cymru Spring Seminar29th April 2016The theme for the Spring Seminar is ‘Regulation for Success- requiring a different conversation for all of us’. Involved in the day will be guest speakers from CSSIW, Care Council for Wales, a service user and carer, providers and an associate offering a critical and helpful take on commissioning.

The day has been planned to deliver the following outcomes:

• People come away with an understanding of the principles and ambitions of the R&I Bill/Act and its fundamental connections to SS&WB Act.

• An understanding of how different relationships, different conversations and different behaviour can/will be developed and experienced.

• An understanding of how the health and social care sector can/will contribute to a changing approach to regulation?

By doing this, it will create opportunities for delegates and contributors to share responsibility for learning and planning action together. As ever, the theme has to be that nothing will happen unless there is coordinated action between all key players – citizens, regulators, commissioners, providers and practitioners. It will require a commitment to change, where minimum standards are no longer the default position and where improvement is consistently achieved, through the abandonment of a risk-averse culture.

Stewart Greenwell ADSS Cymru

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A psychiatrist’s view on ‘person-centred care: a whole systems approach’.

English mental health policy has lately been blighted by a background of NHS destabilisation and ideologically-driven change, which has been remorselessly implemented. Welsh mental health policy has been characterised by aims and objectives that enjoy wide support amongst service users, carers and professionals alike. The problem for Wales has been the lack of an infrastructure to turn excellent intentions into realities.

Person-centred care depends on good quality relationships between service users and mental health professionals. We need systems that support the development of therapeutic alliances, because these have been shown to have a far greater positive effect than medications. Myriad functionalised mental health teams do not foster good relationships. We need a recovery model that does not use eligibility criteria that create barriers to getting a service, but which offers support promptly when it is needed, and withdraws when it is not needed. No one should be the Wrong Kind of Patient.

Everyone recognises that housing conditions, debt, unemployment, marginalisation and isolation are drivers for poor mental health, and we need ways of putting as much effort into solving these problems as we put into responding to the crises that they cause. We need an Executive Director of Mental Health and Learning Disability on the executive of every Health Board in Wales, so that there is a mechanism by which parity of esteem for mental and physical health can be achieved.

If we do all of these things, we still will not have fully developed person-centred care. But we will be getting there.

Rob Poole Professor of Social Psychiatry, Centre for Mental Health and Society, Bangor University and Vice-President for Wales, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Guest contribution

The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 reframes accountability so owners of services can be held to account for failings in care.

The Act enhances the ability of Welsh Ministers to protect Welsh citizens by allowing them to remove poor services as well as poor providers.

Health and Social Services Minister Mark Drakeford said:

“This new law means our regulation of social care will become a key driver of improvement in Wales. Ultimately, it will mean better social care in Wales. Where services don’t come up to scratch it will mean people will be able to see action being taken by regulators.

“I am particularly pleased that our social care system will now be judged firstly and foremost by what is does for people. This law will ensure that everyone will know how good services are and where improvements are needed.”

In addition, the new law will:

• place new requirements on the social care sector to plan for the future

• ensure citizens have accessible information about care in Wales

• require regulators to work together for the Well-being of people in Wales

• pave the way for the transition to Social Care Wales – a new powerful leader for change

• place regulation as a key driver to improve outcomes for people in Wales.

The new system of workforce regulation will be implemented and operational by April 2017. The Care Council for Wales will be renamed Social Care Wales with a broadened remit by April 2017.

The new system of service regulation and inspection established by the Act will be implemented and operational by April 2019. To achieve this, all service regulations will come into force in April 2018 to allow sufficient time for the new system to be established.

Work on the significant suite of subordinate legislation which flows from the Act began in February with a series of stakeholder technical group meetings. Work is also underway to ensure both the service and the workforce regulator have robust transition plans in place to deliver these changes.

Sian Watts Communications Manager

Welsh Government Update

NSSC 201629th – 30th June at Venue Cymru, Llandudno

Keep your eyes on the ADSS Cymru website for details of this year’s National Social Services Conference. Speakers, workshops, masterclasses, sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities are all available.

Our plenaries will focus on: • Children in care – what does improvement look like?• Health and social care integration – leassons learned• The state of innovation of social care in the UK (with special reference

to Wales)

As well as keynote speakers of national and international renown!

We look forward to seeing you in Llandudno.

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The work of the National Fostering Framework (NFF) has involved bringing together key stakeholders from all sectors to begin the work of bringing to life what a NFF might look like, building on the initial ideas in the ‘First Thoughts ‘paper.

Voices from Care have facilitated some great inter-active workshops with children & young people, Fostering Network have arranged a consultation programme with foster carers, and AFA Cymru helped organise an all Wales Event for local authority staff and their public service partners.

These organisations plus Welsh Government, Welsh Local Government Association, ADSS Cymru, Public Health Wales, including CAMHS, CASCADE, Action for Children, the 4C’s, NYAS Cymru, the Data Unit, and Children in Wales have all shared their expertise and wisdom to make sure that the changes that will be made to the delivery of our fostering services in Wales, will improve outcomes for children. The work programme of the NFF is part of Welsh Government’s work programme to ‘Improve Outcomes for Children.

The Phase One Report contains a number of recommendations and a draft Project Plan for 2016-17 and I am confident with the continued involvement of all the key partners our progress in improving our fostering services to achieve better outcomes for those children who cannot be looked after by their parents will continue.

The key recommendations are:

Develop a National Fostering Framework, including the allocation of functions at national, regional and local authority levels and begin putting in place the appropriate structures

Establish the right balance between local authority foster care, third sector providers and commercial providers in terms of national policy objectives, service quality considerations and value for money requirements.

Establish an all-Wales public service fostering collaborative, delivering services regionally and locally, incorporating all the relevant services directly provided by local authorities.

Produce a national policy framework for fostering services, to include the training and support of foster carers.

Develop national arrangements for commissioning all placements, regardless of sector but building on the work of the 4Cs.

Introduce a national web-site, social media, brand and identity for foster care in Wales, to underpin a marketing strategy for recruiting foster carers and improving communication.

Ensure greater consistency in the use of Kinship Foster Care for children who are looked after, building on the initial scoping paper from Phase One

Introduce a national performance and resource framework, aligning this with the work being done to deliver the Welsh Community Care Information Service (WCCIS). A phased approach to implementation will be developed. A distinct performance framework should be developed for the independent sector (commercial providers & third sector providers).

Harmonise policies for paying fees and allowances to local authority foster carers.

National Fostering FrameworkThe Phase One work programme of the National Fostering Framework has been completed and a Phase One Report produced. The Report brings together the work programme completed in Phase One, the extensive consultation programme carried out, recommendations and a draft Project Plan for 2016-17.

To view or download a copy of the report, please follow the link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bjnvcvd57x0ud8f/NFF%20Phase%20One%20Report%20-%20English.pdf?dl=0

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AWHOCS Update AWASH UpdateChanging Legislation: An AWASH perspective

New legislation emerges like a strange anomaly across our familiar landscape. Like the famous futuristic Gherkin skyscraper in London it initially appears at odds with its surroundings, only to become an integral part of its make up several years later.

Right now it feels incongruous and unpredictable but soon working with the legislation will become common place. Levelling the site, has given us some fantastic opportunities to build and remodel services like never before. For example the Dewis Information Portal developed in partnership with SSIA and North Wales authorities is an excellent example of regional working taking a modern approach to problem solving. Other parts of Wales are now benefitting from this innovative product. New legislation has helped drive a common desire for the same approach at the same time and so as a result the whole of Wales benefits.

However the greatest challenge is now. More of our society needs care and support than ever before. Shifting services to facilitate Voice and Control, focus on outcomes, and finding what matters to people is a huge task and one which will take many years. We are all working hard at making sure that over that time those better conversations become integral to our new landscape.

Lance Carver Head of Adult Services, Vale of Glamorgan Council and Chair of AWASH

Having been the chair of AWHOCS for the past 12 months with another 12 months ahead of me, has placed me in the centre of a very exciting, challenging time.

The Social Services and Well-being Act 2014 is now with us, bringing with it the real opportunity to shift the culture of social work from “doing to” to “doing with”. Children’s Services started this journey some time ago with the adoption of various ways of working such as signs of safety, motivational interviewing, and reclaiming social work. The Act now gives us the legal framework to compliment these approaches and focus on the strengths of families and communities to find the right, safe solutions to meeting the needs of children and young people at the earliest stage, to preventing needs from escalating.

We have been working closely with our regulators, the CSSIW, to develop new inspection frameworks in relation to fostering and adoption. The fostering framework is due to be piloted this summer with the roll out of the adoption framework “hot on its heels”.

Wales continues to outperform England in relation to keeping within the 26 week timescale for concluding public law cases. This continues to present huge challenges to the workforce and we have yet to see whether this is achieving better outcomes for children and young people.

AWHOCS have been heavily involved in the 4 work streams of the Strategic Steering Group for Improving Outcomes for Children. The 1st phase of this work is due to finish end of March. Final reports are eagerly awaited by AWHOCS. We look forward to phase 2 of this work.

Finally we look forward to engaging in the Together for Children and Young People agenda which seeks to improve the emotional mental health and Well-being of children and young people in Wales.

Tanya Evans Head of Children’s Social Services, Blaenau Gwent CBC & Chair of AWHOCS

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For more information about any of the content in this newsletter, please contact the nominated project lead for each topic:

Lead Directors Main contact

Citizen-centred services Sue Evans, Torfaen Sue Evans Email: sue.evans@torfaen.gov.uk

Commissioning Dave Street, Caerphilly Dave Street Email: streed@caerphilly.gov.uk

Workforce Liz Majer, Blaenau Gwent Liz Majer Email: liz.majer@blaenau-gwent.gov.uk

Safeguarding Susan Cooper, Bridgend Susan Cooper Email: susan.cooper@bridgend.gov.uk

Integration Jake Morgan, Carmarthenshire Jake Morgan Email: JakeMorgan@carmarthenshire.gov.uk

AWASH Lance Carver, Vale of Glamorgan Lance Carver Email: lcarver@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk

AWHOBS Angela Thomas, Neath Port Talbot Angela Thomas, Email: a.j.thomas@npt.gov.uk

AWHOCS Tanya Evans, Blaenau Gwent Tanya Evans, Email: tanya.evans@blaenau-gwent.gov.uk

Governance Board Members (with effect from 1st April 2016)

Project Leads

President: Neil AylingFlintshire County CouncilEmail: neil.j.ayling@flintshire.gov.ukTel No: 01352 702500

Vice President: Dave StreetCaerphilly County Borough CouncilEmail: streed@caerphilly.gov.ukTel No: 01443 864560

Vice President: Jenny WilliamsConwy County Borough CouncilEmail: jenny.williams@conwy.gov.ukTel No: 01492 575687

Past-President: Sue EvansTorfaen County Borough CouncilEmail: sue.evans@torfaen.gov.uk

Tel No: 01633 648616

Honorary Secretary: Phil EvansThe Vale of Glamorgan CouncilEmail: pjevans@valeofglamorgan.gov.ukTel No: 01446 704676

Honorary Treasurer: Gio IsingriniRhondda Cynon Taf County Borough CouncilEmail: gio.isingrini@rctcbc.gov.ukTel No: 01443 424141

Co-opted MembersMid & West Regional Collaborative: Pam MarsdenPembrokeshire County CouncilEmail: pamela.marsden@pembrokeshire.gov.ukTel No: 01437 770187

North Wales Regional Collaborative: Morwena EdwardsGwynedd County CouncilEmail: AwenMorwenaEdwards@gwynedd.gov.ukTel No: 01286 679468

Powys Regional Collaborative: Amanda LewisPowys County CouncilEmail: amanda.lewis@powys.gov.ukTel No: 01597 826906

Western Bay Regional Collaborative: Sue Cooper Bridgend County Borough CouncilEmail: susan.cooper@bridgend.gov.ukTel No: 01656 642251

South East Wales Regional Collaborative:Note: the interests of the SEWIC Board will be represented on the Governance Board by Phil Evans, Sue Evans and Gio Isingrini.