Written question WQ99229
- Asked by
- David MillsReform
- To be answered by
- Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness & the Constitution
- Tabled
- Due
- Answered
- Time to answer
- 11 days
Question
How many of Wales’s Public Service Boards currently collect and publish material child deprivation data in a unified, machine-readable format capable of being automatically extracted by the Cabinet Office for national performance monitoring?
Answer
Answered by Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness & the Constitution (Dafydd Trystan Davies)
The information you requested is not held centrally by the Welsh Government.
Each Public Services Board must prepare and publish an assessment of the state of economic, social, environmental and cultural well-being in its area, with the next well-being assessments being published by May 2027. It is expected that in these assessments, Public Services Boards will consolidate available data from multiple sources to provide an analysis of the state of well-being in their areas based on their well-being plans priorities. In their 2023-2028 well-being plans, 7 of the 13 Public Services Boards included child deprivation as part of their well-being objectives, with all others including deprivation, poverty or inequality more widely.