Agenda item

Strategy into Action

To receive a report regarding Strategy into Action.

Minutes:

Ingrid Slade presented the Strategy into Action.

 

During the discussion of this item, the following points were made:

 

·         Three Actions Groups were being established, each of which aligned with one of the three key priorities of the Wokingham Wellbeing Strategy; creating physically active communities, reducing social isolation and loneliness, and narrowing health inequalities.  The aim of each group was to develop a stronger understanding of the performance and successes of work being carried out both inside and outside the Council, to help with future planning.

·         The Physically Active Communities Group would be co-chaired by Sports and Leisure.  The first meeting of the group would take place in the first week of November.

·         The Reducing Isolation Group would be co-chaired by Phil Cook of Involve.  Discussions would take place regarding available evidence to assess the level of need in the Borough.  The Group would hopefully meet before the end of the year.

·         The Health Inequalities Group would work closely with Children’s Services.  It would hopefully meet for the first time in early December.

·         Draft terms of reference had been drawn up and would be agreed by the individual Groups.

·         The Groups would have a standard reporting mechanism into the Wellbeing Board.

·         Councillor Margetts suggested that Jake Morrison from the voluntary sector be invited to be involved with the Reducing Social Isolation and Loneliness Group.  Covid would have a huge impact on the work of this. Ingrid Slade re-emphasised that the voluntary sector would be heavily involved in this group.  Phil Cook commented that he was co chairing as part of the Friendship Alliance (Age UK Berkshire, LINK visiting scheme and Wokingham Volunteer Centre) which had been very involved in the Covid response.  There was a Voluntary Sector Action Group meeting every Monday.

·         Martin Sloan added that part of the reason for establishing the Friendship Alliance was to tackle social isolation.  Funding had been put in place to tackle social isolation.  Martin Sloan suggested that a presentation on the progress being made in tackling social isolation be provided to a future meeting.

·         Katie Summers commented that many of the long-term success markers for the Reducing Social Isolation and Loneliness Group, related to children.  She questioned how the education support services would be involved in this.  Ingrid Slade and Carol Cammiss agreed to take this forwards.  They were also to have involvement of care leavers or representatives of care leavers.

·         With regards to the Narrowing Health Inequalities Group, Katie Summers indicated that the NHS had been set an action plan on reducing health inequalities and had eight impact changes that had to be delivered by December next year, including; to protect the most vulnerable from Covid, restoring NHS services inclusively, digital inclusion, proactive engagement and prevention, mental health, leadership, completing timely data sets, and collaborative local plan and delivery.  Increasing the accuracy and availability of data was vital.  Katie Summers offered to work with Ingrid Slade to help tie these eight priorities into the work of the Reducing Health Inequalities Group.

·         The Board were informed that there had been some changes to the GP contract and that each GP practice had to increase the coding of ethnicity in their patients as it was now mandated within their contract.

 

RESOLVED:  That

 

1)        the progress in the establishment of three Action Groups, as outlined in the accompanying presentation (Appendix A), to deliver on the Wellbeing Board objectives, be reviewed. 

 

2)        the co-chairs, key stakeholders/membership, Action Group objectives, proposed terms of reference, meeting agendas and frequency of meetings and deliverables, be noted.

 

3)        input from Board members on these Action Groups and progress to date be invited.

 

4)        the summary of progress captured to end of September 2020 be noted.  These short summary reports will remain in place and until formal reporting is implemented (Appendix B).

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