The North Wales Regional Partnership Board (NWRPB) has published its Annual Report for 2024–25, highlighting the progress made through collaboration between health, social care, local authorities, and third sector partners.
Despite another challenging year for health and social care, the report demonstrates how partnership working is delivering innovation, investment, and improved services for people and communities across North Wales.
Highlights and achievements from the year
We have:
- Implemented the North Wales North Wales Memory Support Pathway to make sure we work better together so that people living with dementia and the people who care for them get the support they need.
- Agreed the new extended home care regional commissioning agreement. The joint agreement includes around 100 care providers with a potential value of around £171 million.
- Implemented our own North Wales Dementia Friendly Communities Scheme.
- Brought practitioners together to share ideas about how best to support people through Ripple Effect Mapping sessions. This is spread and scale at a local level, helping us adopt innovative ways of working across the region. More robust evaluation helps identify what works here.
- Held the first Welsh Digital Social Care Showcase on 5 March 2025, funded by external sponsorship. We’ve also facilitated procurement of a new social care case management system, which will put all six North Wales social care departments onto the same system for the first time, ready for future record integration.
- Improved dementia screening for people with Down’s Syndrome.
- Held a successful ‘Designing Success Together: Neuro-affirmative Innovations’ event in March 2025 with over 100 participants, including people with lived experience and service providers, to develop an action plan for the next twelve months.
- Refurbished buildings to provide community hubs and high quality places for people with care and support needs to live safely as part of their community.
- Continued to implement the 10-year strategic capital plan to support the models of care. Schemes in development include Tŷ Croes Atti Flintshire, which will relocate a council-run care home for older people so it can expand, to be completed in Summer 2025.
- Increased local small group homes for children in care, with a £4 million investment. This helps improve options for children to live within or close to their local communities.
Next Steps: Annual Delivery Plan 2025/26
The North Wales Regional Partnership Board has agreed an ambitious delivery plan for 2025/26, shaped by the successes and challenges set out in the Annual Report. This programme will only be achieved through strong collaboration across partners.
“Working in partnership, allows us to continue to work together to improve our service and enable people in North Wales to live the best lives they can. […] Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
Councillor Dilwyn Morgan.
