Carmarthenshire Play Strategy

Carmarthenshire County Council is committed to ensuring that every child and young person living in Carmarthenshire has access to exciting, stimulating and creative play experiences by providing both supervised and unsupervised quality play provision that gives opportunities for challenge.

The Carmarthenshire Play Strategy and Action Plan aims to make the case for a more co-ordinated approach to play, by setting out a range of recommendations that can be used by Carmarthenshire County Council, statutory, voluntary and private sector organisations to improve play opportunities for children and young people aged 0-25 yrs across the county.

By working in partnership with these organisations as well as parents, carers, children and young people, the strategy shows a commitment to ensuring that all children and young people have access to a range of varied, stimulating and fun play environments, which are free from unacceptable risk, embrace diversity and encourage inclusion of all children.

The consultation period for the Play Strategy will run from 18th March 2008 to 29th April 2008.

Please find below a downloadable copy of the Carmarthenshire Play Strategy and an accompanying questionnaire.

Consultation Strategy

Consultation Response Form

The information and views you give us will provide us with important information that will be used to develop a full and comprehensive Play Strategy for Carmarthenshire.

Contact for more information:

Caryl Alban, Play Officer/Swyddog Chwarae, Ffôn/Tel: 01267 224224 E-Bost/E-Mail: CAlban@carmarthenshire.gov.uk

People, Places, Futures: The Wales Spatial Plan 2008 Update Consultation

A consultation on the Wales Spatial Plan Update 2008: People Places Futures is running for 12 weeks from 31st January to 24th April 2008.

The document sets a vision for how each part of Wales should develop economically, socially and environmentally over the next 20 years and will guide the way the Assembly Government spends its money over the coming years.

A huge amount of cross-sector and partnership working has seen real progress made against the goals identified in the first Spatial Plan in 2004.

It has helped achieve a joined up approach to complex issues such as transport, housing and settlement patterns for the first time, leading to more effective use of public finance.

The Wales Spatial Plan update has also been subject to Sustainability Appraisal, which meets the needs of the 'Strategic Environmental Assessment' Directive. The Sustainability Appraisal, which is a separate document, also forms part of the Consultation.

The consultation documents and response forms are available from the Welsh Assembly website

>> follow this link: Spatial Plan Update Consultation

Your completed responses should be returned by 24 April 2008 to:

Wales Spatial Plan Team, Room 3.08 CP1, Welsh Assembly Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NQ

Tel: (029)2082 3759 Fax: (029)2082 3802

Events

There are a series of regional events during the consultation in the following locations:

• Pembrokeshire Haven: 22nd February 2008 at Pembrokeshire Technium, Pembroke Dock
• Swansea Bay and Western Valleys: 27th February 2008 at Liberty Stadium,Swansea
• South East: 28th February 2008 at Aberdare Hall, Cardiff
• North West: 4th March 2008 at Venue Cymru, Llandudno
• North East: 5th March 2008 at NEWI, Wrexham
• Central Wales: 14th March 2008 at Penbryn Hall, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth University

Programme

The morning will focus on the consultation document with presentations from a national and regional perspective. The afternoon will look at how we take this work forward and deliver the best outcomes with presentations from the partners who have been working in your region.

Registration for events

Go to the Welsh Assembly Government website for more information – registration for some of the events is closed. Spatial Plan Update Consultation  

Communities Next ~ Consultation on the future of the Communities First Programme

This consultation document, “Communities Next – Taking Communities First Forward” sets out our proposals and invites local partnerships and others to discuss and comment before the work is taken forward over the period 2009-2012.

Date consultation commenced: 30/01/2008
End of consultation: 28/04/2008

We would prefer responses by e-mail to facilitate publication on our website but hard copy is also acceptable. Please respond:

• by e-mail to communities.first@wales.gsi.gov.uk; or
• in writing to us at:

Communities First Unit
Communities Directorate
Welsh Assembly Government
Merthyr Office
Rhydycar
Merthyr Tydfil
CF48 1UZ

Document Download

Communities Next - Consultation on the future of the Communities First Programme (English version)

Communities Next - Consultation on the future of the Communities First Programme (Welsh version)

Draft Children and Young People’s Plan 2008-11

The Children and Young People’s Partnership was established at the end of 2006 in response to the statutory requirement contained in the Children Act 2004. Its key responsibility is to improve the outcomes for children and young people (aged 0-25) across Carmarthenshire and implement the single Children and Young People’s Plan 2008 – 2011.

Instead of having lots of plans for children and young people aged 0-25 we will soon have just one single Children and Young People’s Plan. There will no longer be a requirement for many of the other plans we currently produce, for example, the Social Services Childrens Services Plan, the Single Education Plan or the Children and Young Peoples Framework Partnership Plan.

We cannot write this plan without your views. Last year in preparation we conducted a comprehensive analysis of service provision and need via Pricewaterhouse Coopers which involved many families, children, young people and service providers across the county. We have also made good use of the information already available.

The draft single Children and Young People’s Plan has been written by a multi-agency partnership group and will be broadly consulted on between January and March 2008. It is really important for us to have your views as the single Children and Young People’s Plan will come into force from September 2008.

Children and Young People's Plan 2008-11 Summary (1.1MB)

Children and Young People's Plan 2008-11 Full Version (1.4MB)

Please forward any comments, by 31st March 2008, to email Victoria Charlesworth-Stack or in writing to: 
Children and Young People’s Partnership, Education and Children’s Services
Carmarthenshire County Council, Pibwrlwyd, CARMARTHEN, SA31 2NH
Telephone: 01267 224526

Children & Young People's Partnership Website

The draft Funding Code of Practice

... is an integral element of the draft tripartite Carmarthenshire Compact (see below).

The draft Compact describes the arrangements for joint working between the local voluntary sector, the County Council and the Local Health Board. Consultation regarding the draft Compact document was carried out from November 2007 to 7th February 2008.

The Funding Code of Practice seeks to improve the funding and contracting relationship to the mutual advantage of the statutory sector: Carmarthenshire Local Health Board (LHB) and/or Carmarthenshire County Council (CCC) and the third sector: Carmarthenshire voluntary sector organisations by setting a framework for the financial relationship.

Download a copy of the draft code of practice here >> (142KB PDF)

Comments on the draft Funding Code of Practice are welcome and need to be returned to one of the officers below by no later than Monday 10th March 2008.

Marie Mitchell, Partnership Manager, Carmarthenshire Association of Voluntary Services, 3 St. Peter’s Street, CARMARTHEN SA31 1LN, Tel: 01267 239938 Email: Marie Mitchell , or

Gareth Morgan, Planning & Development Manager, Carmarthenshire LHB, Unit 5, Heol Cropin, Parc Dafen, LLANELLI SA14 8QW, Tel: 01554 744472, Email: Gareth Morgan, or

Enfys Davies, Community Development Project Manager, Carmarthenshire County Council, Business Resource Centre, New Road, AMMANFORD SA18 3EP, Tel: 01269 590267, Email: Enfys Davies.

Draft Carmarthenshire Tripartite Compact

Carmarthenshire Association of Voluntary services (CAVS), along with their partners within the Local Health Board (LHB) and County Council (CCC), are pleased to launch the voluntary sector consultation on the draft of the Carmarthenshire Tripartite Compact.

The consultation period will run for 12 weeks, from 15th November 2007 until 7th February 2008.

A questionnaire accompanies the draft Compact document but all comments are welcome and should be directed to one of the following:

Debbie Bence, Acting Partnership Manager, Carmarthenshire Association of Voluntary Services, 3 St. Peter’s Street, CARMARTHEN SA31 1LN, Tel: 01267 239938 Email: Debbie Bence, or

Gareth Morgan, Planning & Development Manager, Carmarthenshire LHB, Unit 5, Heol Cropin, Parc Dafen, LLANELLI SA14 8QW, Tel: 01554 744472, Email: Gareth Morgan, or

Enfys Davies, Community Development Project Manager, Carmarthenshire County Council, Business Resource Centre, New Road, AMMANFORD SA18 3EP, Tel: 01269 590267, Email: Enfys Davies.

Download the consultation document and questionnaire here:

Carmarthenshire Health, Social Care and Well-being Strategy for 2008-11

This is the draft Health, Social Care and Well-being Strategy for 2008 to 2011 with details on how the Carmarthenshire Health, Social Care and Wellbeing Partnership intend to improve the health and well-being of the population over the next three years.

From the 8th of October 2007 to the 7th of January 2008, there is a public consultation on this plan. In order to facilitate this, we have included on this site (see table below) a bilingual summary version for the public and as well as a more detailed version.

Please use the consultation questionnaire located on this site or at the back of the summary and let us have your thoughts and comments.

For any other enquiries, please contact:
Dr Brickchand Ramruttun, HSCWB Partnership Manager, 3 Spilman Street, Carmarthen, SA31 1LE, Tel:  01267 228777, Fax: 01267 221616, email Brickchand Ramruttun