Corporate Strategy 2025-30

Our Communities

Caring for people, and enabling active, resourceful and connected communities

 

Why is this important?

We want to support people to live independently in their own homes and communities.  We will continue to build strong partnership arrangements across the Council, Health and third sector to enable this.  Our mission is for communities to have the capacity and networks to support themselves as much as possible and our role is to enable and facilitate this.

 

What will we do to achieve this?

• Continue to embed the work of the Pembrokeshire Social Services Improvement Board to ensure oversight and support on our journey to a sustainable footing
• Redesign the front-of-house process for accessing adult social care through service reconfiguration
• Implement processes which identify other opportunities for service efficiencies through utilisation of the Vanguard methodology
• Continued modernisation of day opportunities and building on our approach to social enterprises
• Continue to strengthen and embed our approach to adult safeguarding
• Review provision of in-house reablement and domiciliary care services and ensure they are fit for purpose
• Future proof the adult mental health services workforce
• Strengthen communities through a range of initiatives such as the community hub and community connectors targeted at prevention and early intervention
• Enable people to live independently in their homes through the provision of aids and adaptations
• Embed strategies to prevent and alleviate homelessness
• Develop and produce a new Welsh Language Strategy by 2026, with the involvement of all key stakeholders
• Demonstrate place leadership at PSB level which will include leading on the delivery of the Strengthening Communities priority in the PSB’s Well-being Plan
• Ongoing delivery of cultural projects which strengthen connections with language, well-being and place (cynefin)
• Support and promote the use of Welsh as a first language, including implementing the Welsh in Education Strategic Plan and hosting the National Eisteddfod in 2026

 

How will we know?

Quantitative data from our Corporate scorecard relating to

• Assessments of need
• Carers’ assessments
• Safeguarding referrals
• Domiciliary care
• Residential care
• Homelessness rates
• Rough sleepers
• Volunteering rates
• Welsh speakers

Qualitative sources

• Delivery of PSB’s Strengthening Communities project
• Eisteddfod 2026
• Delivery of Welsh in Education Strategic Plan
• Director of Social Services Annual Report

 

Contribution of the national well-being goals

• A healthier Wales
• A more equal Wales
• A Wales of cohesive communities