Posts tagged "Leadership"

Ann, Dafydd, Nia and Jo launching the Transform Wales book at GovCamp Cymru
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2025: a year of building momentum

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Tachwedd / November 2025

#3 - 📝 GovCamp Cymru, service patterns, and rebranding user research - November’s digital news roundup

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GovCamp Cymru 2025: building the future of public services in Wales together

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Hydref / October 2025

#2 - 📝 Bilingual design, AI, and problems worth solving – October’s digital news roundup

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We learned the language of digital. Now it’s time to learn the practice.

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A better way

If Wales wants to rise to the challenge of improving public services, we have to change how we design and deliver them. That means putting people first, adopting modern and open ways of working, drawing on the best digital practices to build services that are simple, efficient, and designed around real life-needs.

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A call to action

Wales can’t afford to fall further behind. This is more than digital reform. It’s how we build a more resilient, responsive Wales — one that works for everyone, for generations to come. The choice is clear. Stay stuck. Or lead the way.

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Clear, bold and accountable leadership - How we get there

Transforming public service requires clear, bold leadership. Leadership that understands the scale of the change we need that’s prepared to challenge and be challenged. Leadership with the vision, authority and staying power to drive lasting change.

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Delivering a new National Care and Support Service

The government has committed to creating a National Care and Support Service over the next decade, with full implementation from 2029. But a rigid, long-term plan risks being overtaken by events. A better way is to accelerate delivery by combining clear political intent with practical, test and learn reform.

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High-level planning reform

Wales faces significant challenges in housing, infrastructure, climate change and public health. Yet the planning system – anchored in local development plans – is struggling to respond. Many local plans are outdated, the process for updating them is long and complex, and both communities and businesses find it hard to engage. Wrexham’s recent high-profile planning dispute illustrates the risks.

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How we get there

Wales has the potential to become a beacon for modern, human-centred public services. But to get there, we must act decisively in three main areas: leadership, skills and funding.

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Making this real

Grounding our ‘better way’ in practice. Fully adopting the approach set out in this report means changing how the Welsh Government designs policy and delivers services. To illustrate, we’ve sketched what the first 100 and 1,000 days might look like in two areas.

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The challenge

The way we design and deliver public services is broken. For over a decade, we’ve failed to increase our state capacity as Welsh public services have faced growing pressures: rising demand alongside reduced funding. People need and expect more, but public services have failed to keep up….

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Why this matters

Welsh public services haven’t kept up. Technology has transformed how we live, work, and connect with the world. People expect public services to be simple, fast, and user-friendly – just like everything else in their lives. But too often, government services are slow, clunky, and frustrating.

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Medi / September 2025

#1 - 📣 Digital shake-ups, whistleblowing, and our report launch – September’s digital news roundup