Workforce Partnership Council Joint Executive Committee meeting: 14 April 2025

1. Introduction: Chair (Verbal)

For Approval: JEC Paper         

2. Workforce Partnership Council -Future Social Partnership Arrangements: Chair (Paper)
3. Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan (ArWAP): Bethan Thomas (Paper)
4. Duty of Candour Act: Dom Houlihan (Verbal)

For Approval: WPC Draft Papers

5. WPC Communications Plan update: Liz Rogers (Paper)
6. WPC Work Strands – Current Position: Mark Lewis (WPC Support Team) (Paper)
7. WPC Agenda: Chair (Paper)
    
8. JEC Matters Arising: Chair (Paper)
9. AOB: Chair (Verbal)

Decision

1. No decisions recorded.

Action

1. No actions recorded.

Decision

1. The recommendations in the paper for this item were all agreed.

Action

1. The JEC to progress the recommendations in the paper for this item with the assistance of the Task and Finish Group and the WPC Support Team.  
2. The WPC Support Team to provide a write-up of the main issues that emerged from the roundtable event on the 7 April to the JEC and the attendees.  

Decision

1. The recommendations contained in the paper for this item were agreed by the JEC.

Action

1. Welsh Government officials to progress the recommendations in the paper with the JEC and WPC Support Team.  
2. JEC members to provide any delegate nominations for the Welsh Government’s symposium on the leadership element of the ArWAP to the WPC Support Team.

Decision

1. The recommendations contained in the paper for this item were agreed by the JEC.

Action

1. The WPC Communications Working Group to progress the recommendations in the paper. 

Decision

1. The recommendations contained in the paper for this item were agreed by the JEC subject to one small amendment.

Action

1. The WPC Support Team to liaise with Reg Kilpatrick and Bethan Thomas to amend the 4 Day Week Work Strand update contained in the paper for this item.

Decision

1. The draft WPC agenda for the 15 May was agreed by the JEC.  

Action

1. The WPC Support Team to ensure the WPC agenda is provided as part of the papers for the Council’s meeting on the 15 May.

Decision

1. The status of JEC matters arising were agreed by members.

Action

1. The WPC Support Team to continue liaising with the Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Group (VAWDASV) on their work regarding sexual harassment in the workplace so it can be promoted through the Council’s networks once finalised.  

Decision

1. The WPC Support Team to note TUC Cymru’s Welsh Language Charter for consideration by the Transition Board.

Action

1. Chris Llewelyn to present the paper on WPC Work Strands at the meeting of the Council on the 15 May.