PART 4PUBLIC SERVICES BOARDS
CHAPTER 2IMPROVING LOCAL WELL-BEING
Well-being duty on public services boards
36Well-being duty on public services boards
1
Each public services board must improve the economic, social, environmental and cultural well-being of its area by contributing to the achievement of the well-being goals.
2
A public services board’s contribution to the achievement of the goals must include—
a
assessing the state of economic, social, environmental and cultural well-being in its area (see sections 37 and 38),
b
setting objectives (“local objectives”) that are designed to maximise its contribution within its area to achieving those goals, and
c
the taking of all reasonable steps by members of the board (in exercising their functions) to meet those objectives (but see section 39(2)(b)).
3
Anything a public services board does under this section must be done in accordance with the sustainable development principle.
4
Sections 39 to 45 make provision about local well-being plans including provision requiring public services boards to set out in such plans their local objectives and the steps they propose to take to meet them.