Local Service Board
Local service Boards (LSBs) are Wales’ new model for engaging
the whole of the Wales public service in a new way of working by
integrating services and responding more effectively to citizens
needs. Neath Port Talbot has been identified as one of six
development areas which are piloting the LSB model.
The Neath Port Talbot Local Service Board is a non-statutory
collaborative group of local strategic partner organisations who
have agreed to work collectively to deliver the aims and objectives
of the Neath Port Talbot Community Plan. It is a deliberative
strategic forum, which seeks to promote integrated services and
remove organisational barriers to effective public service
delivery. It will adopt a problem-solving approach, with members
acting non-representatively, to assist and challenge partner
agencies, individually and collectively, to deliver excellent,
citizen-centred public services. Whilst it has no decision making
powers, joint actions will be agreed and committed to with any
formal decisions required being taken through individual partners’
decision making processes.
The key driver for the Local Service Board will be the citizen,
as an individual, family member, service user or member of
community or other group whose voice, needs and aspirations should
guide the design and delivery of services.
The Local Service Board will have a focus on Health and Well
Being in its first year specifically examining four project
areas:
- Building on current work to improve and integrate health and
social care services;
- Implementing and further developing the Strategic Health
Improvement Plans;
- Maximising the health improvement impact of public policy,
strategy and service design and delivery on the wider determinants
of health
- Developing strategic and practical approaches to effective
partnership engagement with citizens;
For more information contact
Peter Mannion
Local Service Board Development & Research Officer
Tel 01639763731
p.mannion@npt.gov.uk