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Annual Self Assessment 2024-25

This is Pembrokeshire County Council’s fourth annual self-assessment as required under the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act. The Act introduced performance requirements for local authorities and central to this is a duty to report annually on performance through a process of self-assessment. The Act requires each council in Wales to keep under review, through self-assessment, the extent to which it is meeting the ‘performance requirements’, which is the extent to which:

It is exercising its functions effectively
It is using its resources economically, efficiently, and effectively
Its governance is effective for securing the above

A self-assessment report must be produced in respect of each financial year and published as soon as is reasonably practicable after the end of the financial year on which it is reporting. As such this is the Council’s self-assessment report for the 2024-25 financial year.

The report sets out the Council’s conclusions on the extent to which it has met the performance requirements during that financial year, and any actions it intends to take, or has already taken, to increase the extent to which it is meeting the performance requirements.

There are a number of broad overarching principles which have informed the Council’s approach to undertaking this self-assessment:

Corporate leadership and ownership is key to developing a culture of improvement.
Self-assessment process needs to be embedded into the Council’s corporate planning, performance and governance processes – it is not a one-off event or standalone process.
There is acceptance that the self-assessment process will evolve and be continually refined.
This is not necessarily about introducing new systems and processes – rather this is about utilising what is already in place in a more coherent, integrated and effective way.
The legislation states that this is a corporate self-assessment, not an assessment of individual service performance.

ID: 14282, revised 29/10/2025

Annual Self-Assessment 2023-24

This is Pembrokeshire County Council’s third annual self-assessment as required under the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act. The Act introduced new performance requirements for local authorities and central to this is a duty to report annually on performance through a process of self-assessment. The Act requires each council in Wales to keep under review, through self-assessment, the extent to which it is meeting the ‘performance requirements’, that is the extent to which:

It is exercising its functions effectively
It is using its resources economically, efficiently, and effectively
Its governance is effective for securing the above

There are a number of broad overarching principles which have informed the Council’s approach to undertaking this self-assessment:

Corporate leadership and ownership is key to developing a culture of improvement.
Self-assessment process needs to be embedded into the Council’s corporate planning, performance and governance processes – it is not a one-off event or standalone process.
There is acceptance that the self-assessment process will evolve and be continually refined. We have made some amendments to our self-assessment framework this year as a result of Council adopting a new Corporate Strategy in May 2022.
This is not necessarily about introducing new systems and processes – rather this is about utilising what is already in place in a more coherent, integrated and effective way.
The legislation states that this is a corporate self-assessment, not an assessment of individual service performance.

Pembrokeshire County Council’s annual self-assessment report also serves as the report which meets duties under paragraph, 1 schedule 1 of the Well-being of Future Generations Act relating to the progress the Council has made in meeting its Well-being Objectives.

ID: 12315, revised 28/10/2025

Annual Self-Assessment 2022-23

This is Pembrokeshire County Council’s second annual self-assessment as required under the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act. The Act introduces new performance requirements for local authorities and central to this is a duty to report annually on performance through a process of self-assessment. The Act requires each council in Wales to keep under review, through self-assessment, the extent to which it is meeting the ‘performance requirements’, that is the extent to which:

It is exercising its functions effectively.
It is using its resources economically, efficiently, and effectively.
Its governance is effective for securing the above.

There are a number of broad overarching principles which have informed the Council’s approach to undertaking this self-assessment:

Corporate leadership and ownership is key to developing a culture of improvement.
Self-assessment process needs to be embedded into the Council’s corporate planning, performance and governance processes – it is not a one-off event or standalone process.
There is acceptance that the self-assessment process will evolve and be continually refined. We have reviewed the methodology we used last year and considered how other local authorities in Wales produced their self-assessment reports. As a result we have made some minor amendments to our self-assessment framework this year to address some previous gaps and taken advantage of opportunities to consolidate some of the sub-themes in the framework.
This is not necessarily about introducing new systems and processes – rather this is about utilising what is already in place in a more coherent, integrated and effective way.
This is a corporate self-assessment, not an assessment of individual service performance.

ID: 10970, revised 10/11/2023

Improvement Planning

Our plans were produced in response to the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2022 and the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2016. Our Corporate Strategy looks forward to what we want to achieve.

Each year we produce an Annual Self Assessment which looks back at our previous year's performance. The purpose of this report is two-fold.

The first is to give an account of our performance so that residents and stakeholders can hold us to account.
The second purpose is to help us learn the lessons from how we delivered actions by proposing recommendations so that our future actions will be more effective.

ID: 593, revised 11/04/2025

Data and Statistics

Around 125,000 people live in Pembrokeshire.

Of these about 21,300 (17%) are aged under 16, and 31,500 (25%) are aged 65 and over.

Around 73% of the population aged 16-64 are in employment. A range of economic and labour market statistics about Pembrokeshire (opens in a new tab) are available from the NOMIS web site. The Welsh Government also publish statistical summaries for Unitary Authorities in Wales.

Data is available for Local Authorities and smaller areas in England and Wales from a number of web resources:

Nomis contains a wide range of economic and labour market data as well as data from Censuses from 1981 to 2011;

The Neighbourhood Statistics (opens in a new tab) site allows users to search for data about their local area;

StatsWales (opens in a new tab) includes data about Wales including Education and Health data;

Health data can also be found on the Health Maps Wales (opens in a new tab) website

ID: 536, revised 09/11/2023