Agenda item

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 domestic abuse survivors with essential funds to prevent homelessness

-        Target hardening – security measures installed in 142 properties to enable domestic abuse survivors to remain safely in their own homes

 

Community Payback

-        An alternative to a prison sentence for people who had committed a crime

-        Offenders carry out unpaid work to benefit communities as punishment and reparation

-        From April 2022 to January 2025 over 27,000 hours of work have been completed with an equivalent real living wage value of £294,000

 

Strategic Priority 4 – Develop a Borough that supports a healthy lifestyle

Food

-        Local Food Partnership established

-        Bronze award obtained from Sustainable Food Places

-        RotherHive eating well support information

-        Links into a variety of work programmes e.g. Food in Crisis Partnership, Auto-enrolment of free school meals, MECC cost of living training

 

Physical Activity – Moving Rotherham

-        Local Authority Declaration on Health Weight 2020

-        Strategic Review 2021 and Big Active Conversation engagement – set priorities

-        Highlights of delivery – 368 hours of volunteer time

-        Sport England Place Expansion Programme

 

Moving Forward

-        Work with partners to develop a new loneliness action plan

-        2025 Children’s Capital of Culture Festival Year

-        Development of Creative Health action plan for Rotherham

-        Refreshing the Food Network action plan

-        Delivery of Sport England Place Expansion Development Award

-        Delivery on new priorities of SRP including new team in Town Centre tackling anti-social behaviour and review of partnership domestic abuse pathway

 

Discussion ensued on the presentation with the following issues raised/clarified:-

 

·        The Creative Health Board was launched in May 2024.  It met regularly and was developing an action plan looking at the priorities that arose from the Symposium.  It would be submitted to the next Board meeting to formulise

 

·        Children were a focus of the Place Expansion Development Award Sport England grant funding.  One of the 4 priorities that had arisen from Sport England’s work would be a new post of a Children and Young People Officer around physical activity.  The post would specifically look at adding to the Children’s Capital of Culture and link into community green spaces, a new development of Splash Zone in Clifton Park, the other playgrounds in the Borough as well as working with schools.  One of real successes was the School Partnership event and special sports day

 

·        RDaSH was to commence some work in Doncaster with Sport England around integrating physical activity into its talking therapy work.  If some improvement in people’s mental health was seen as well as increased levels of physical activity, RDaSH would look to consider expanding it into Rotherham and North Lincs

 

Resolved:-  (1)  That the successes presented under Aim 4 be noted.

 

(2)  That work with partners to develop a new loneliness action plan be noted.

 

(3)  That a Creative Health action plan be developed for Rotherham.

 

(4)  That the Food Network action plan be refreshed.

 

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