Agenda item

Terri Roche to present along with Board sponsors:-

Mel Meggs

Richard Cullen

Kathryn Singh

Terri Roche, Director of Public Health, introduced a progress update on the Health and Wellbeing Strategy together with the full suite of action plans for each aim (Appendix A) highlighting the activity taking place/planned.

Since 2015 the Board had worked well with partnerships vastly improved.  It was now in a stronger position to consider what the real challenges were locally and how it could best work together to add value.  There had been a number of national strategic drivers influencing the role of local Health and Wellbeing Boards including:-

Sustainability and Transformation Plans

Rotherham’s Integrated Health and Social Care Place Plan

Better Care Fund

The Rotherham Plan

Children and Young People’s Strategy Partnership

Safer Rotherham Partnership

Local Safeguarding Partnership Protocol

It was suggested that there was a need to consider all of the above and look to streamline the Health and Wellbeing Strategy whilst ensuring the Board’s key roles and functions were delivered in the most appropriate way.  This should include how the Board was able to influence other agendas, plans and strategies.

The Board sponsors (or their representatives) gave a brief summary of the progress made for each of the objectives relevant to their Aim.

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

-          Future updates must include the “so what” element

-          Exploration of joint commissioning of the Midwifery Service which paid for the Smoking Cessation initiative

-          Development of Ward profiles which would assist in understanding the inequalities throughout Rotherham

-          Young people not in education, employment or training, particularly care leavers, were a vulnerable group with some not ready to go straight into apprenticeships.  It was, therefore, suggested that organisations should consider pre-apprenticeship programmes

-          Improving Lives Select Commission was to conduct a piece of work on Looked After Children apprenticeships.  This could be reported back to the Board at a future date

-          There was a suggestion that Aims 1 and 2 of the Strategy be merged to become a single aim in relation to children and young people with Ian Thomas as the Board sponsor

-          Rotherham’s aspirational Social Prescribing initiative was being recognised nationally

-          Social isolation was not just felt by the older population

-          Use of Social Prescribing in the social isolation work

-          Need to capture the measure of actions of Social Prescribing and include within the Aims to highlight the valuable outcome of the work

-          Need for all Aims to consider what they contributed to the Mental Health Strategy

-          Making Every Contact Count was underway with regard to the 2 previously agreed themes – Alcohol and Tobacco.  Work had been taking place with commitment from RDaSH and the Foundation Trust with further discussions around the voluntary and community sector.  Initial training was to start in June 

-          Increase opportunities in the Town Centre for people to use outdoor space for improving their health and wellbeing and ensuring it was an age friendly place

-          Need to ensure everyone who was entitled to free school meals took up the entitlement

Resolved:-  (1)  That the action plans for each aims be noted. 

(2)  That future action plans should consider the “so what” element. 

(3)  That future reports provide the statistical contribution the Board had made and how successful they had been using the performance scorecards as a way of presenting this information. 

(4)  That a report be submitted to a future meeting on Social Prescribing.

Action:  Kathryn Singh

(5)  That the Town Centre Team present the draft Town Centre Masterplan to the Board as part of the consultation process to allow Board members to consider it in terms of the impact on health and wellbeing.

Action:-  Kate Green to liaise with the relevant officer(s) to arrange