Agenda item

To consider and agree the refreshed Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy action plan for the remainder of the strategy period.

Rosie Dalton-Lucas - Head of Place and Partnership and Alice Fletcher-Etherington - Public Health Programme Manager presented the item which provided the Board with an update on the new action plan and outcomes framework approved in November 2024.

It was agreed that new action plan and outcomes framework should be developed with actions that:

§  Are fewer in number but larger in potential impact

§  Are ambitious and innovative, instead of business as usual

§  Are focused on partnership working in order to address the wider detriments of health

§  Align with Southwark 2030 and other borough-wide strategies

Since November 2024 work has been undertaken with teams, staff, partners from the organisations represented on Health and Wellbeing Board, plus a range of partnership Southwark forums and VCS partners in order to develop the action plan. The following were identified;

§  Amendments to ensure aims to reflect need and properties

§  Actions to build on progress from the previous action plan

§  Actions to address gaps in work to deliver the aims of the Strategy

§  Actions to address the recommendations from the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)

All actions in the Strategy were co-developed and agreed with staff in the organisation that own those actions with a draft report presented to Partnership Southwark and senior officers for comment prior to submission to the Health and Wellbeing Board. 4 priority areas were identified;

1.  A health start in life

2.  Healthy work and lives

3.  Support to stay well

4.  Healthy communities

The new action plan also ensures that it captures some of the recommendations from the Annual Public Health Report.

To support prioritisation of 44 actions set out in the report, the following 14 actions were identified and recommended to become drive actions for the Board.

These actions were selected on the basis that they could do with effective partnership working across the agencies represented in order to ensure that they are delivered effectively. The 14 actions sit across all four priorities with the aim of ensuring good representation of the different organisations that own the actions. Public health will support the prioritisation by using the 14 actions to shape the Board’s forward plan so that there is specific focus on the actions. With regards to the delivery of the other 30 actions the intention is that it’d be the Board's responsibility to monitor the impact and progress of those actions and identify where progress might not be occurring.

With regards to the action on the ‘Establish a new Women’s Safety Centre that is integrated with wider health, employment, housing and financial support services’ there was discussion as to whether this was a feasible driver for the Health and Wellbeing Board. It was agreed to remove it from the list of drive actions given that the nature of its delivery and monitoring would primarily sit elsewhere within the council.

RESOLVED - That the Health and Wellbeing Board;

1.  That the Health and Wellbeing Board approved the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy action plan for 2025-27

2.  That subject to the removal of the action ‘Establish a new Women’s Safety Centre that is integrated with wider health, employment, housing and financial support services’from the list of the 14 drive actions the Health and Wellbeing Board agreed the remaining 13 “drive” actions selected.