Digital Transformation Strategy 2021 - 2024

7 Well-being Goals

The general purpose of the Act, is to ensure that the governance arrangements of public bodies for improving the well-being of Wales, take the needs of future generations into account. The Act is designed to improve the economic, social, environmental, and cultural well-being of Wales, in accordance with sustainable development principles. The law states that:

1. We must carry out sustainable development, improving the economic, social, environmental, and cultural well-being of Wales. The sustainable development principle is: ‘... the public body must act in a manner which seeks to ensure that the needs of the present are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.’
2. We must demonstrate use of the 5 ways of working: Long term, integrated, involving, collaborative and preventative.
3. We must work towards achieving all of the 7 national well-being goals in the Act. Together they provide a shared vision for public bodies to work towards.

Wales was the first country to implement a Well-being of Future Generations Act, which provides a shared vision for all public bodies in Wales to work towards. As a public body subject to the Act, we are required to set and publish Well-being Objectives that maximise our Contribution to the Well-being Goals. We have incorporated these Well-being Objectives into the council’s Corporate Strategy.

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