Agenda item

To consider outstanding actions from previous meeting(s).

Adrian Barker referred to the action from the previous meeting regarding the Children and Young People's Survey, as the full report had now been circulated. He felt that the following points needed to be picked up, which had not been highlighted at the meeting:

·         8% of children and young people surveyed in West Berkshire had said they were unhappy, which was above the national average. 

·         At one of the schools which took part, 68% said they had been bullied in the last year.

Lesley Wyman confirmed that these points would be picked up by both the Mental Health and Wellbeing Delivery Group and Children and Young People Delivery Group. Rachael Wardell reported that there was already work around bullying taking place and it would be interesting to see if the data within the Children and Young People’s Society’s report matched that locally.

Adrian Barker stated that the Board had not been informed of these points when they had been presented the data from the West Berkshire survey at the previous meeting and it was not an omission within the minutes.

Cathy Winfield reported that there was a specific piece of work taking place around children and young people’s mental health. A lot of time had been spent developing tier three Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHs)  and CAMHs was also being extended to offer more tier four services. More focus was required regarding prevention and early intervention.  Money was currently being directed into more costly parts of the pathway. 

Rachael Wardell reported that a huge piece of work had also taken place over the summer on children’s mental health and wellbeing and included exciting proposals such as an Emotional Health and Wellbeing Academy to help develop skills to help young people at a tier 2 level.

Adrian Barker reported that there were many new innovative ways of working being implemented for example around CAMHs and Adult Social Care. He suggested it would be worth revisiting the Health and Wellbeing Strategy to ensure these areas were incorporated. There was currently no process in place that he was aware of for refreshing the Health and Wellbeing Strategy (H&WBS). Lesley Wyman stated that all the new ways of working would be considered by the Delivery Groups. All of the groups were multi-agency and would be responsible for a number of actions. Lesley Wyman requested clarification on  what needed to change within the H&WBS and  Adrian Barker stated that he believed it was about joining up the new strands of work.

Cathy Winfield felt that it would helpful to have a planning event prior to the refresh of partner plans and the H&WBS. This would support the joining up of work strands, the allocation of resources and ensure issues were jointly addressed. Rachael Wardell supported this as a way forward and felt that it would be helpful to know what impact new pieces of work were having. The priorities within the H&WBS were clear, although how areas were changing as a result was not yet apparent. Dr Bal Bahia stated that it was important to consider how the information would be communicated into the Health and Wellbeing Board and delivery groups on a regular basis.

RESOLVED that  a planning event should be scheduled for 2016 prior to the refresh of partner plans and the Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

Councillor Hilary Cole felt that it was important to maintain the H&WBS. Adult Social Care was rapidly evolving in an ever changing environment and therefore it was important to ensure the H&WBS was fit for purpose and remained flexible.