Agenda and minutes

There were no Declarations of Interest made at the meeting.

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There were no communications to bring to the Board’s attention.

Resolved:-  That the minutes of the previous meeting held on 22^nd January, 2025, be approved.

Alex Hawley, Interim Director of Public Health to present the review of the Success of the Current Strategy under Aim 1.

Board Sponsors:-

Nicola Curley, Strategic Director, Children and Young People’s Services

Dr. Jason Page, Medical Director, Rotherham Place, SYICB

Nicola Curley, together with Alex Hawley presented a review of the success of the current Strategy under Aim 1:-

Best Start and Beyond Framework

-        A framework was developed to derive optimum value from work already underway within the system and to improve interoperability of the 0-19 Service and the wider system

-        This has been used to understand opportunities for partnership working

Strategic Priority 1 – Develop our approach to give every child the best start in life

Family Hubs and Best Start in Life Programme

-        Rotherham’s multi-agency transformational work to deliver the Family Hubs and Start for Life Programme has been co-produced alongside a wide range of partners

-        Focussed on the first 1001 days with support available to all families

-        Building on existing partnership working has been a real strength with joined up working across health, local authority and voluntary and community sector organisations

-        Development of family hub network, Parent and Carer Panel and funded workstreams

-        A website and printed resources have been developed to support children getting the best start in life

Breastfeeding Friendly Borough

-        Rotherham’s leaders pledged to work towards becoming a Breastfeeding Friendly Borough

-        Peer Support Workers have been trained to support breastfeeding

-        The first breastfeeding friendly business has been recruited with further work in this area to follow

-        Breastfeeding friendly signage in libraries and Family Hubs

3-4 Month Visits

-        A universal 3-4 month visit was introduced

-        73% uptake was achieved

-        An evaluation of pilot underway

-        Potential challenges in funding the current service beyond the pilot

Local Maternity and Neonatal Services

-        A 3 year delivery plan which aimed to make care safer, more personalised and more equitable resulted in progress across 4 themes

·      Listening to women and families with compassion which promotes safer care

·      Supporting the workforce to develop their skills and capacity to provide high quality care

·      Developing and sustaining a culture of safety to benefit everyone

·      Meeting and improving standards and structures that underpin the national ambition

Baby Packs

-        A Rotherham Baby Pack offer has been developed to ensure every newborn baby’s family has access to essential items

-        Baby packs will be available from the end of March 2025

Strategic Priority 2 – Support children and young people to develop well Mental Health of Children and Young People

-        Covid-19 presented a challenge to the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people

-        Targeted support was provided including a Team Around the School (TAS) approach, having Mental Health Support Teams in school settings and Kooth (an online mental health and wellbeing service) being available to 11-25 year olds

SEND

-        An independent travel training (ITT) offer has been created to support children with special educational needs or disabilities

-        A new post-14 specialist campus opened in September 2023 providing 50 school places for people with additional  ...  view the full minutes text for item 69.

Ruth Fletcher-Brown, Public Health Specialist and Integrated Care Partnership colleagues to present the Review of the Success of the Current Strategy under Aim 2.

Board Sponsors:-

Toby Lewis, Chief Executive, Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust

Claire Smith, Director of Partnerships/Deputy Place Director (Rotherham Place)

Ruth Fletcher-Brown and Kate Tuffnell presented a review of the success of the current Strategy under Aim 2:-

Strategic Priority 1 – Promote better mental health and wellbeing for all Rotherham people

-        Health and Wellbeing Board became a signatory of the Prevention Concordat for Mental Health in September 2023

-        Good data to inform planning and commissioning – JSNA, Young People Lifestyle Survey, Real Time Surveillance, Mental Health Needs Assessment

-        Evidence of early intervention and prevention projects delivered by partner organisations e.g. Smiles for Miles, Mental Health Small Grants, Open Arms, Alcohol Outreach, Wellbeing in Later Life

-        Better Mental Health Funding (2021-2022)

-        Launch of RotherHive.  Regular updates now included a Working Well and Wellness hive

-        Promotion of Five Ways to Wellbeing messages used in mental health campaigns throughout the year by partners

-        In 2021 Rotherham people shared how they kept themselves happy and healthy and this resulted in the Great Big Rotherham To Do List

-        Work has commenced with partners to develop a Measuring Mental Health Toolkit so that good practice can be captured and shared

Strategic Priority 2 – Take action to prevent suicide and self-harm

-        Partnership Suicide Prevention Group delivering Rotherham’s action plan

-        Launch of Rotherham’s Suicide Prevention Campaign, Be the One, in 2019 with men’s groups across Rotherham

-        Suicide prevention and women were the focus of Be the One in 2022

-        Films of local people sharing their lived experience

-        Promotion of Zero Suicide Alliance Training to all partners and now also promoting to taxi drivers’ training

-        Work with national organisations on making locations/places safer

-        Work on early intervention and prevention measures

-        Now working with neurodivergent adults and young people to further develop the website so that it is accessible and promoting the ZSA Autism training

-        SPOT and Speak suicide prevention courses delivered by Papyrus January-March 2024.  223 people trained

-        Suicide Prevention Guidance issued for staff and volunteers across Place to assist with spotting the signs, asking and signposting

-        Internal courses run on suicide prevention for teams within partner organisations – South Yorkshire Police, Voluntary and Community Sector, Rotherham Council (Revenues and Benefits and Adult Care staff)

-        Taxi drivers encouraged to complete the Zero Suicide Alliance Training (ZSA) and taxi driver training

-        Domestic Homicide and Suicide Prevention Learning events held for partner organisations

-        Suicide prevention training for Primary Care in person in 2024 and online in previous years

-        Safeguarding Awareness Week (SAW) – suicide prevention workshops held every year since 2020

-        ZSA promoted to the public in libraries across Rotherham

-        Self-Harm Awareness sessions run for parents/carers and practitioners by Early Help

-        ‘Talking to Children and Young People when there has been a suicide’ courses run for staff

-        Amparo service was supporting children, young people and adults across South  ...  view the full minutes text for item 70.

Katy Lewis, Carers Strategy Manager, Hannah Thornton, Voluntary Action Rotherham Director of Services (Projects) and Barry Knowles, Voluntary Action Rotherham Social Prescribing Service Manager to present the Success of the Current Strategy Under Aim 3.

Board Sponsors:-

Jo Brown, Assistant Chief Executive, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

Bob Kirton, Deputy Chief Executive, The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

Jo Brown, together with Katy Lewis, Gilly Brenner and Hannah Thornton, presented a review of the success of the current Strategy under Aim 3:-

Strategic Priority 1 – Ensure support is in place for carers

Borough That Cares Strategic Framework 2022-2025

-        The Borough that Cares Strategic Group formed to co-produce strategic framework

-        Strategic Group reformed as The Borough that Cares Network to represent the voice of the carer and influence change

-        Strength-based approach to support carers linking them to community provision

·        Increased community provision through a Small Grants Programme

·        Linked voluntary and community sector groups to VAR to support sustainability

-        Established a carer community

·        Carers Week and Carers Rights Days Events with visible social media presence

·        Strong links with VAR to support carers’ health and wellbeing

-        Robust Co-Production Platform

·        Borough That Cares Network, Unpaid Carers Multi-Agency Strategic Group, RASCAL Co-production Board and small VCS groups

·        Carer Conversations programme completed to inform commissioning decisions

Information, Advice and Guidance

-        Re-designed Carers Information pages on Council website for the corporate digital platform refresh

-        Carers Directory published and embedded in webpages

-        Carers newsletter established

-        Information Navigator roles incorporated into commissioned services

·        Making Space Dementia Cafes (Council)

·        Sight and Sound Sensory Impairment Service (Council)

·        Crossroads Carers Resilience Service (SY-ICB)

·        Crossroads Dementia Flexible Support Service (SY-ICB)

-        Accelerating Reform Fund secured to develop a Carers app and increase respite opportunities through Shared Lives

Supporting Carers to Live Well

-        Carer Link Officers established within Adult Care and Integration Supporting Independence Team to provide additional capacity for Carers Assessments

-        Adult Care and Integration Service Carers offer reviewed

·        Practice guidance issued to ensure offer is clear, legally compliant and improves outcomes for carers

-        Carers Emergency Scheme re-commissioned with contract in place until April 2027

-        Moving forward

·        Carers Strategy to be revised through co-production

·        Ensure revised Strategy continues to build on the cornerstones put in place by the current strategic framework

·        Utilise ARF funding to develop a Carers app and increase the Shared Lives offer

Strategic Priority 2 – Support local people to lead healthy lifestyles including reducing the health burden from tobacco, obesity and drugs and alcohol

Tobacco Control

-        Establishment of Tobacco Control Steering Group

-        Tobacco Control Work Plan

-        New Community Stop Smoking Service – October 2023

-        Collaborative work across South Yorkshire – Tobacco Control Alliance established across the 4 local authorities

-        Trading Standards activity on illicit tobacco and vapes

-        Implementation of national initiatives e.g. Swop to Stop Scheme

-        Local Stop Smoking Services and Support Grant – included additional investment in Stop Smoking Service with additional capacity in Community Services and local enhanced support through Primary Care and some hospital settings

Better Health Service:  Smoking

Aim: For Rotherham to become smokefree by 2030 (<5% prevalence)

-        Smoking prevalence has decreased to 14.5% (approximately 30,000 people) although the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 71.

Gilly Brenner, Public Health Consultant and York Sport Foundation to present the Success of the Current Strategy Under Aim 4.

Board Sponsors:-

Andy Wright, Chief Superintendent, South Yorkshire Police

Andrew Bramidge, Strategic Director, Regeneration and Environment, Rotherham Council

Gilly Brenner presented a review of the success of the current Strategy under Aim 4:-

Strategic Priority 1 – Deliver a loneliness plan for Rotherham

-        Better Mental Health Fund Befriending project 2021-2022 – 835 people benefitted

-        Prevention and Early Intervention Fund – 13 grants allocated to community groups to tackle loneliness (July 2024-July 2025)

-        Use of libraries for Warm Welcome and Open Arms Hubs and Shared Reading groups

-        Making Every Contact Count loneliness training delivered to staff and volunteers – to date 216 have attended this training

-        Communications messaging using Five Ways to Wellbeing and quotes from local people and The Great Big Rotherham To Do List

-        Promotion of volunteering through films and case studies

-        Promotion of local assets/buildings/activities regularly taking place via monthly Ward e-bulletins and other more traditional channels and investment in Gismo

-        JSNA Loneliness Chapter and mapping of services

Strategic Priority 2 – Promote health and wellbeing through arts and cultural initiatives

-        2022 CST COMF-funded Arts and Health programme with communities aged 55+ years

-        Museums, Arts and Heritage – intergenerational family programmes

-        Events and festivals

-        Children’s Capital of Culture

-        Rotherham Music

Creative Health

-        Rotherham Creative Health symposium – held in July 2024

-        Establishment of Rotherham Creative Health Board – currently developing an action plan

-        Development of Creative Health commissioning framework for children and young people

-        Pilot commissioning programme in 2025 as part of Children’s Capital of Culture

-        Development of Creative Health Impact Framework based on five ways to wellbeing

-        Legacy commissioning programme in 2026 funded by Arts Council England

Strategic Priority 3 – Ensure Rotherham people are kept safe from harm

Safer Rotherham Partnership Priorities 2022-2025

-        Protecting vulnerable children

-        Protecting vulnerable adults

-        Safer stronger communities

-        Protecting people from violence and organised crime

Action on counterfeit vapes, vape liquids and cartridges and illegal cigarettes (2022-2025)

-        Joint Police and Council Trading Standards Officers operations resulting in over £639,000 worth of illegal tobacco and vape products removed from sale

-        Tackling cannabis cultivation

Action on domestic abuse 2022-2025

-        Improved domestic abuse pathway – 8,779 adults referred for support from April 2022 to December 2025.  Average engagement rate 70%

-        Awareness raising campaigns

-        Tackling perpetrator behaviour – 72 adults have completed the intensive Cranstoun Inspire To Change programme to find better ways to manage and control abusive behaviour

-        Cranstoun: Level Up – 31 young people (11-15 year old) have successfully completed trauma-informed psychoeducational interventions to help address the use of abusive behaviours

Safe accommodation support for domestic abuse victims/survivors 2022-2025

-        13 Local Authority specialist properties – fully furnished and equipped with target hardening essentials.  These homes have accommodated 90 adults and 108 children

-        10 refuge and 10 safer options properties have supported 182 families

-        Homeless Prevention Fund – 471 awards made supporting  ...  view the full minutes text for item 72.

Lorna Quinn, Public Health Intelligence Principal to present the success of the current Strategy under the cross-cutting with a focus on Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.

Lorna Quinn presented a review of the success of the current Strategy under the cross-cutting aims with a focus on the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment:-

Strategic Priority 1 – Work in partnership to maximise the positive impact of anchor institutions

RDaSH Poverty Proofing

-        RDaSH have formed a partnership with Children North East to Poverty Proof all services (in line with the Promise)

-        Around 35% of Rotherham’s population live in the 20% of most deprived areas nationally

-        Phased approach over 18 months with positive feedback from the pilot service in Rotherham: Early Intervention in Psychosis in Rotherham

Strategic Priority 2 – Support safe and equitable recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic

-        Strategic impact assessment of Covid-19 on residents and Council services

-        Regular meetings of the Humanitarian and Community Group

-        MECC training (484 as at February 2025)

-        IPC Care Home Champions Network

Strategic Priority 3 – Develop the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment

-        Regular steering group meetings

-        Published 2022-2025 and next update underway

-        Public consultation being hosted by Healthwatch Rotherham

Strategic Priority 4 – Work in partnership to further develop the Rotherham Data Hub and assess population health

-        Joint Strategic Needs Assessment – new additions – Deprivation, Food, Unpaid Care, Core20Plus50 but also includes Children and Young People, Ward profiles, long-term conditions, small geographies (LSOA and MSOA) loneliness, end of life care and inclusion health

-        Population Health Monitoring – Excel training, Power BI training, ‘How to use and interpret the JSNA’ training

Moving Forward

-        Quarterly JSNA newsletter

-        Additional JSNA, Excel and Power BI training

-        PNA update for 2025-2028

-        Continued monitoring of the Prevention and Health Inequalities Assurance Framework

-        The use of the JSNA to inform the Health and Wellbeing Strategy

Resolved:-  (1)  That the successes presented under the Cross-cutting priorities be noted.

(2)  That the quarterly JSNA newsletter be published.

(3)  That the PNA be updated for 2025-28.

(4)  That the JSNA be utilised to inform the Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

(5)  That the uncompleted actions highlighted in the Aim be rolled over to the Action Plan of the new Strategy.

Andrew Turvey, Consultant in Public Health to present the new Strategy for approval.

Andrew Turvey reported that the 2020-2025 Rotherham Health and Wellbeing Strategy was due for refresh this year.  Since September 2024, a working group had met to oversee a programme of consultation and evidence review to support the development of the 2025-2030 Strategy. 

The draft Strategy consisted of:-

Overview of evidence gathering process

-        Summary of consultation work and approach

·        Board members – 1:1 discussions

·        Working Group – shaping the engagement plan

·        Stakeholders – working group, bespoke survey, individual submissions, events

·        Population – review of existing consultation; bespoke survey

·        Evidence – JSNA and partnership discussion around opportunity

-        Follow-up at Board development session to agree focus of content

Vision – To enable the people of Rotherham to live happy, healthy, independent lives within thriving communities regardless of background and personal circumstance

Our strategic aims

1.      Enable all children and young people up to age 25 to have the best start in life, maximise their capabilities and have influence and control over their lives

2.      Support the people of Rotherham to live in good and improving physical health throughout their lives, accessing and shaping the services and resources they need to be able to do so

3.      Support the people of Rotherham to live in good and improving mental health throughout their lives, accessing and shaping the services and resources they need to be able to do so

4.      Sustain an environment where detrimental impacts from commercial and wider determinants of health are reduced and opportunities for healthier living are nurtured

Our ways of working

-        Ensuring our practice is evidence informed

-        Applying a strong emphasis on prevention

-        Strengthening population, independence and resilience

-        Tackling health inequality and provide help to those that need it most

-        Taking a compassionate approach

-        Strengthening and making the most of community assets

-        Taking joint responsibility across the system to tackle difficult challenges

Next Steps

-        Prioritisation workshop in May

-        Narrow the focus from 16 priorities to 3 or 4

-        Select priorities which fit the following criteria:

·        Is it an issue which would benefit from cross-partner intervention?

·        Would tackling this issue have a significant impact on our population as a whole or on one of our key vulnerable groups?

·        Is it possible to make substantial measurable progress within the given timeframe?

-        Agree ways to come together and deliver

The Strategy

-        Will be published on the Health and Wellbeing Board website

-        Full version will not be printed

-        An easy-read version will be produced once the full version is approved

-        Require some additional prompts in cover papers for Board reports

Discussion ensued with issues raised on the draft Strategy as follows:-

·        Support for the Board to focus on 3/4 priority actions that could be realistically achieved in the 5 years

·        More emphasis on tackling inequalities

·        Possible alignment with RDaSH under the proposed third aim (mental health for all people) and work collectively

·        That the Children and Young People Partnership Board be invited to the workshop for their  ...  view the full minutes text for item 74.

Chris Edwards reported that, with regard to the GP collective action, a settlement had been offered and approved by the GP Committee England.  It was hoped this would lead to reconciliation.

It was noted that the BCF Quarter 3 Template (Appendix 1) would be submitted to NHS England regarding the performance, expenditure, capacity and demand and actual activity of Rotherham’s Better Care Fund Plan for 2024/25.

The overall delivery of the Better Care Fund continued to have a positive impact and improve joint working between health and social care in Rotherham.

Resolved:-  To note the information.

Minutes of meeting held on 18^th December, 2024 and 15^th January, 2025

The minutes of the Rotherham Place Board Partnership Business meetings held on 18^th December, 2024, and 15^th January, 2025, were noted.

Minutes of meeting held on 18^th December, 2024 and 15^th January, 2025

The minutes of the Rotherham Place Board ICB Business meetings held on 18^th December, 2024, and 15^th January, 2025, were noted.

Wednesday, 25^th June,      2025

                     24^th September

                     3^rd December

                     28^th January,2026

                     25^th March

all commencing at 9.00 a.m. venue to be confirmed.

Resolved:-  That meetings of the Health and Wellbeing Board be held as follows:-

Wednesday,            25th June 2025

24th September

3rd December 

28th January 2026

25th March

all commencing at 9.00 a.m. venue to be confirmed.