Adnodd Board meeting: 16 June 2023

• Gethin Davies, Chair (GD)
• Lesley Bush (LB)
• Sioned Roberts (SR)
• Lucy Thomas (LT)
• Ann Evans (AE)
• Elliw Roberts (ER)

Apologies:

• Nicola Wood (NW)
• Huw Jones (HJ)

A second draft of the business plan was circulated to members for an out of committee discussion. It has also been circulated to colleagues in WG for their initial comments.

The following points were raised by members:

• The Chair’s foreword will be further developed.
• Vision – currently does not reflect aspiration and is more about purpose.
• Values – members discussed whether this section is kept brief and high level, being further developed over time and once a Chief Executive is in place. Some values for consideration:
• Collaborative
• National (would also refer to culture and language)
• Equality and diversity
• A listening organisation that’s responsive to needs
• Equity (in provision)
• A learning organisation (that also evolves)
• Independent – ALB – does this need to be clear?
• Innovative and creative

The majority of the above could be kept until a Chief Executive is appointed, and use 4/5 words to reflect core values, and develop straplines to encompass these and communicate visually.

• Vision – is to be innovative, sector

leading and future facing.  Distinctive

and underpinned by robust governance.

• Priorities for the year ahead – stakeholder events etc.
• Timeline – noted that this would be developed into a full graphic by Four Cymru.
• Objectives for 23/24 – small changes to format and wording were suggested.
• Not captured in the document currently is the need to take forward some WG priorities, e.g. Welsh history timeline and dyslexia screening test in Welsh.
• Financial forecast – should split Board and Governance total to reflect amount spent against training, remuneration etc.
• Medium term plan should include areas such as promotion and awareness and use of resources. These could be reflected in the timeline.
• Timeline for submitting the Business plan was discussed.  Adnodd to submit to WG by 30 June, with Partnership Team and Minister to approve by 14 July.

Executive Team referred to the interim delegation matrix agreed with WG and the interim Accounting Officer and Additional Accounting Officer.

Discussion had on the Curshaw presentation. Some reservations expressed in relation to the proposed cost. However, it was acknowledged that the supplier gave a strong presentation and appeared likely to offer Adnodd the short-term commercial expertise and experience to become operationally effective quickly and safely.

The Board agreed to directly award the contract to Curshaw.

Executive Team noted the next steps – departure request to be submitted to WG for consideration and seek approval for a direct award from the AO and AAO.  Due to the contract value Corporate Procurement Services in WG will also need to approve.