Commentary on Sections Part 4: The Citizen Voice Body for Health and Social Care Section 14 – Public awareness and statement of policy
42.This section places the Citizen Voice Body under a duty to promote public awareness of its general objective and functions. It must also prepare and publish a statement of its policy setting out how it proposes to promote awareness of its functions and how it will seek the views of the public for the purpose of its general objective.
43.Subsection (3) requires the statement of policy to, in particular, specify how the Citizen Voice Body proposes to ensure that it represents the interests of and is accessible to people in all parts of Wales and how members of the Body’s staff and anyone else acting on the Body’s behalf (such as contractors or persons assisting the Body in a voluntary capacity) are able to engage effectively with people across Wales. This requires the Body to plan effectively to ensure it can achieve these things when it is exercising its functions.