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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/well-being-of-future-generations-wales-act-2015/section-4",
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  "legislation": "anaw/2015/2",
  "legislation_title": "Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/well-being-of-future-generations-wales-act-2015",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "The well-being goals",
  "text": "The well-being goals are listed and described in Table 1—\nTABLE 1\nGoal\nDescription of the goal\nA prosperous Wales.\nAn innovative, productive and low carbon society which recognises the limits of the global environment and therefore uses resources efficiently and proportionately (including acting on climate change); and which develops a skilled and well-educated population in an economy which generates wealth and provides employment opportunities, allowing people to take advantage of the wealth generated through securing fair work.\nA resilient Wales.\nA nation which maintains and enhances a biodiverse natural environment with healthy functioning ecosystems that support social, economic and ecological resilience and the capacity to adapt to change (for example climate change).\nA healthier Wales.\nA society in which people's physical and mental well-being is maximised and in which choices and behaviours that benefit future health are understood.\nA more equal Wales.\nA society that enables people to fulfil their potential no matter what their background or circumstances (including their socio economic background and circumstances).\nA Wales of cohesive communities.\nAttractive, viable, safe and well-connected communities.\nA Wales of vibrant culture and thriving Welsh language.\nA society that promotes and protects culture, heritage and the Welsh language, and which encourages people to participate in the arts, and sports and recreation.\nA globally responsible Wales.\nA nation which, when doing anything to improve the economic, social, environmental and cultural well-being of Wales, takes account of whether doing such a thing may make a positive contribution to global well-being.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 Table 1 substituted (1.4.2024) by Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023 (asc 1), ss. 20, 48(1); S.I. 2023/794, art. 3(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 1.4.2016 by S.I. 2016/86, art. 3"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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