Agenda item

To receive the Task Group’s report and recommendations following scrutiny of the Healthy Living Action Plan (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 asked the Panel to receive the Task Group’s report and recommendations following scrutiny of the Healthy Living Action Plan.

The report was introduced by the Assistant Director – Wellbeing and Community Leadership and the following main points were highlighted:

• The report was the culmination of work undertaken by a partnership task group which had South Holland District Council representation from Councillor M Le Sage, Councillor I Sheard and Councillor N Chapman;
• The report sought feedback on nine task group recommendations listed at Appendix A;
• The task group reviewed the Health and Wellbeing offer across the sub-region and in particular the governance of the Healthy Living area of work, which included: the Healthy Living Board, the Health and Wellbeing Strategy; and the Healthy Living Action Plan;
• The joint task group had decided to focus on two key themes of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy, those being ‘Activity and Wellbeing’ and Working with our Communities’;
• Whilst Health and Wellbeing was not a statutory area for district councils, the task group recognised the influence and contribution that district councils made towards social determinants of health; and
• In respect of recommendation 9, members were informed that the Boston Borough Council scrutiny committee had recommended that the progress review be extended from six to nine months.

Members considered the update and made the following comments:

• Members queried how low-cost activities were promoted to all members of society across the district.
  • The Assistant Director – Wellbeing and Community Leadership assured members that a robust communication plan was in place which ensured that messages were circulated across communities, this included: through schools - including targeted messages to pupils who received free school meals; the voluntary and community sectors; and through the utilisation of social media campaigns; and
  • Through the review of the Healthy Living Action Plan, the task group concluded that influences were being maximised to strengthen community leadership and physical activity in the area.

• Members asked for clarification of ‘Glogi’ noted at Appendix A.
  • The Assistant Director - Wellbeing and Community Leadership responded that Lincolnshire County Council Public Health had introduced ‘Glogi’,a weight management scheme, to some GP surgeries. The district councils served to influence partners by matching knowledge of such initiatives to specific needs in their area.

• Members suggested that the re-ordering of recommendations 1 and 2 would be more meaningful.

• Members were happy to follow Boston Borough Council’s suggestion that the progress review be extended to 9 months.

• Members queried the mechanism used to monitor the progress of the  recommendations across the partnership.
  • The Assistant Director – Wellbeing and Community Leadership stated that:
    • Performance monitoring mechanisms were in place and these were integral to the Healthy Living Action Plan;
    • The Healthy Living Plan included five lever areas from the Health and Wellbeing Strategy with activities linked to each lever area;
    • Each lever area carried Performance Indicators as monitoring mechanisms; and
    • At the first 9-month review of the Healthy Living Action Plan, an overview of the Healthy Living Strategy would be included for completeness.

AGREED:

a)    That the Joint Scrutiny of the S&ELCP Healthy Living Action Plan, Appendix A, and associated recommendations be noted by the Panel;

b)    That the comments of the Panel be noted; and

c)     That the Healthy Living Strategy Review be combined with the nine month review of the Joint Scrutiny of the S&ELCP Healthy Living Action Plan.