Pembrokeshire’s recovery from Covid-19 – and the council’s role in it – is part of a strategic plan to be presented this week.

A strategic recovery planning for Pembrokeshire document indicates the next stage in the local authority’s response to the pandemic and restrictions on movement as the area opens up for business again.

At full council on Thursday (July 16) councillors are asked to note the report but there is likely to be questions raised about the strategy, its structure and the handover of the council’s response to a Strategic Recovery Coordination Group (SRCG).

The full membership of the SRCG is not included in the report to council other than cabinet members and senior officers involved in five sub/task and finish groups that have been formed – Organisational recovery; business and economic recovery; social care, housing and community recovery; education, children, young people and schools and communications and infrastructure.

The report adds that the membership is flexible and likely to change at different stages, determined by its chairman, council leader David Simpson.

It’s responsibility will be for “co-ordination the process of restoring and rebuilding the community in Pembrokeshire (including Pembrokeshire County Council as an organisation) by adopting a strategic overview of, and providing strategic direction to, the recovery work.”

The recovery work’s main objectives include ensuring the long term safety and well-being of communities, developing resilience, building on social capital, restoring life to as normal as possible, restore education and support the rebuilding of the Pembrokeshire economy.

It will also be linked to other organisations such as the regional partnership board, Swansea Bay City Region and the Dyfed Powys strategic recovery group.