Issue - meetings

To provide an update on South & East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership’s Healthy Living Board and recommendations from SELCP’s joint scrutiny review of Health and Wellbeing across the subregion (report of the Assistant Director – Wellbeing and Community Leadership enclosed).

Consideration was given to the report of the Assistant Director – Wellbeing and Community Leadership which provided an update on South & East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership’s Healthy Living Board and recommendations from SELCP’s joint scrutiny review of Health & Wellbeing across the subregion.

The Healthy Living Strategic Lead introduced the report and stated that:

• A Joint Scrutiny report had been presented in April 2024 and the report provided an update on local work and opportunities coming out of the Healthy Living Board.
• Highlighted the shift to a prevention focus which helps residents to live longer and reduces demands on services.
• The Healthy Living Board provided a strategic oversight of work across the districts.

Members considered the report and made the following comments:

• Members commented that this was an important piece of work and they were pleased with the work that had taken place.

• Members asked whether sheltered housing tenants were included as part of the work undertaken by the board.
  • The Healthy Living Strategic Lead stated that this was part of the work of the Independent Living Team but that the board did work with them on digital inclusion and the age friendly network.

• Members queried how activities in village halls catered towards the elderly were tracked.
  • The Healthy Living Strategic Lead responded that Active Lincolnshire keep a record of different activities, but this relies on organisers letting them know to add it to their database.

• Members asked how residents could be encouraged to put on more events.
  • The Assistant Director – Wellbeing and Community Leadership clarified that this was a discretionary service and the Board’s work was about raising awareness of what is already available in communities.
  • The Communities Team could support and offer advice to those wanting to organise events but there wasn’t available resource for the Council to organise more events.
  • The Healthy Living Strategic Lead commented that the Joint Scrutiny task group included a recommendation to work with Active Lincolnshire to build a legacy where funding had previously been provided for a particular activity which assists in creating community capacity to organise activities themselves.

• Members asked whether the Board had been involved in producing the wellbeing maps for Crowland and Holbeach.
  • The Healthy Living Strategic Lead confirmed that this fell within the remit of the Board.
  • The NHS had funded community co-ordinators to promote wellbeing activities in an area.

• Members advised that the Citizens Advice Bureau offices in Holbeach needed to be added to the wellbeing map.

• Members commented that the wellbeing maps should be reviewed annually to ensure they were kept up to date.

AGREED:

That the Panel notes the remit and purpose of the Healthy Living Board, the update on local partnership work and response to the joint scrutiny recommendations.