Agenda

To elect the Chairman of the Health and Wellbeing Board for the 2026/27 municipal year.

To elect the Vice-Chairman of the Health and Wellbeing Board for the 2026/27 municipal year.

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of the Board held on 29 January 2026.

To consider outstanding actions from previous meeting(s).

To remind Members of the need to record the existence and nature of any personal, disclosable pecuniary or other registrable interests in items on the agenda, in accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct.

The following are considered to be standing declarations applicable to all Health and Wellbeing Board meetings:

·       Councillor Patrick Clark – Governor of Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Governor of Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and West Berkshire Council representative on the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Partnership; and

·       Councillor Jo Stewart – works for the Royal Berks Charity which is part of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, and spouse is Head of Contract Management at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

Members of the Health and Wellbeing Board to answer questions submitted by members of the public in accordance with the Meeting Rules contained in the Council’s Constitution.

(Note: There were no questions submitted relating to items not included on this Agenda.)

Councillors or Members of the public may present any petition which they have received.

Purpose: To agree any changes to Health and Wellbeing Board membership.

To provide the Health and Wellbeing Board oversight of the Best Start Local Strategic Plan 2026–2028 which sets out the West Berkshire approach to improving early childhood outcomes from pregnancy to age five.

Members of the Health and Wellbeing Board to answer questions submitted by Councillors in accordance with the Meeting Rules contained in the Council’s Constitution.

(Note: There were no questions submitted relating to items not included on this Agenda.)

An opportunity for Members of the Health and Wellbeing Board to suggest items to go on to the Forward Plan.