I think for us what was useful was the on-going dialogue that we had.
We had several meetings with Heledd Morgan from the Future Generations Commissioners office.
She was extremely helpful.
It was useful not to just have a written report at the end,
obviously we'd submitted the draft well-being plan
and we were really grateful for the advice and assistance given on that.
I think if we'd have had the written advice at the end
it would have been almost too late for us to do anything about it.
Having that on-going dialogue with Heledd,
she was able to come and speak to us at various stages,
we were able to show her what we'd done,
we shared things via email, the way in which we were going about our engagement
our engagement plan , our engagement strategy,
some of the content as it was developing,
the well-being objectives, the actions.
Heledd also came to one of our PSB meetings,
so was able to discuss with them the approach and the way things were going
so for us that was really useful.
There seemed to be a level of empathy from the Commissioner to the PSBs
about actually where they were.
I think that's important because a lot of this is around cultural mind set change.
So that empathetic approach, I think, has been really helpful.
In terms of the written advice, we did find that extremely useful.
It was very detailed, we were surprised how detailed it was
when it came through because there's a lot of hyperlinks in there to research papers
and things that we might find useful for particular areas of our plan.
Obviously, either directly related to the goals,
or related to our objectives as they were developing
That was useful and we did spend some time going through
each of those pieces of advice and checking out those research papers.
What it enabled us to do is to reinforce some of the key points,
messages and principles of the Act.
So where we were trying really hard to do involvement,
in our case through the 'Blaenau- Gwent We Want' programme,
the messages that were coming through from that advice was really helpful
in encouraging us and the PSB
to see that this is really positive and this is a good way to go.
Our original draft of the plan didn't explicitly make reference to each of the well-being goals,
it didn't tabulate against each of them,
because we thought that was almost artificial,
in that all of them were contributing to all of the goals in one way or another.
We had a conversation with Heledd,
and realised that is important that you demonstrate that you've done these things.
So the plan was redrafted in that way,
more explicitly referencing the goals and the five ways of working,
we restructured our objectives around positives.
So yeah, it was useful and we did make some changes as a result of that advice.
There was some parts of it that we took very specifically,
which was around actually trying to galvanise
what we were saying in that original draft,
into some sort of key action.
That was something that had come through
and we worked then with the PSB and they actually agreed
an initial, immediate, strategic work programme,
where different organisations took the lead.
They agreed three key projects,
where they could come together and really add value,
that were big issues in the community.
It's been a really useful relationship for us,
and it's been very valuable for us to have that on-going dialogue.
having several meetings from several officers from the office
and a couple of times we've been down to the office for conversations as well.
So it's been useful in helping us with drafting.
They're walking alongside us,
and nobody knows what that route looks like quite yet,
we're navigating through it.
So that was a helpful approach as well.
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