DHCW’s corporate governance systems are effective, and current actions are helping to reduce key risks. The Programmes Delivery Committee is rightly focused on major digital programmes, but it should concentrate more on what DHCW can control and work better with partners to support wider delivery. While DHCW is responding positively to its recent escalation by Welsh Government, stronger performance reporting and better tracking of organisational strategies would help it to assess and demonstrate its impact and value to partners.
Eight recommendations are still outstanding from previous years’ structured assessment work.