Agenda item
Health & Wellbeing Scrutiny Work Plan - 2021/2022
To consider items for 2021/22 Health & Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee Work Plan
Minutes:
The Chair asked members, in light of the previous discussions, to consider the priorities for the Committee over the next 12 months. Following discussion it was agreed that two major themes would form the main focus for the Committee, within which there could be more details topics identified:
1. Mental wellbeing; and
2. Homelessness
It was reported that the Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust (MPFT) was working on plans to transform community mental health services in Staffordshire to create a model working in partnership with primary care, local authorities, and the voluntary sector. As part of this work the MPFT was looking to understand health inequalities in Tamworth and was looking to engage with a wide range of key stakeholders including members of the community, service users with lived experience and voluntary groups to help develop pathways to community mental health services. The Assistant Director Partnerships and representatives of MPFT would like to join the July Committee meeting to share further details of the work and how stakeholders could be engaged in the process.
The Committee noted that the County work plan would need to be reviewed to understand when items were to be considered at the County Committee to ensure that any coordination was managed, and unnecessary duplication avoided. There were likely to be some topics identified by this Committee which were of Staffordshire wide relevance, and where appropriate these items could be recorded and highlighted by the Chair and the County Councillors member to County.
The Committee noted that the Council had signed up to the Armed Forces Covenant some years ago and that it could be appropriate to consider the formation of a working group to review the implementation of the covenant and whether any further work in this area was required.
The Committee agreed that the Work Plan be updated to reflect the discussions of the Committee and with the oversight of the Chair. It was agreed that representative of the MPFT and the Assistant Director, Partnership be invited to the next meeting to provide an overview of the work on community mental health pathways, as part of the Mental Wellbeing theme.
The updated Work Plan is as follows:
Health & Wellbeing Scrutiny Work Plan
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Work Plan 2021 – 2022 |
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Work Area Themes for the Year |
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1. Mental Wellbeing |
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Topics |
Target Meeting |
Additional information |
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Community mental health services transformation – pathways to care in Tamworth |
13th July 2021 |
Invitation extended to Assistant Director Partnership & representative of Midland Partnership Foundation Trust |
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Leisure Services |
date to be confirmed |
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Substance abuse / addition |
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Young people’s experiences in Tamworth |
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To capture the working groups learnings |
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Loneliness / isolation |
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2. Homelessness |
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Target Meeting |
Additional information |
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Overview of services available to rough sleepers / homeless people in Tamworth |
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Suggested invitation to representatives of Heart of Tamworth and/ or other relevant voluntary organisations |
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Housing Allocations Policy – post implementation review |
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Suggested invitation to Assistant Director, Neighbourhoods |
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Other suggested topics for Committee consideration |
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Green and open spaces |
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Attainment and Skills in Tamworth |
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Specific topics to feed in to Staffordshire County Council (separate from main Themes) |
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Additional information |
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Access to GP Services in Tamworth |
5 July 2021 |
Experiences locally, including barriers to access and access to Long COVID clinics |
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Wider determinants of health in Tamworth, including diet / food vulnerability / healthy eating / social prescribing |
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Extend an invitation to voluntary sector to understand current initiatives eg Community Together CIC |
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Strategic Transformation Programme (STP) |
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To tie in with County consideration when dates for County consideration known |
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Possible Working Group topics |
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Armed Forces Covenant |
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Understand the current Staffordshire wide and Tamworth position |
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Upcoming Health & Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee Meetings |
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13th July 2021 23rd September 2021 19th October 2021 20th November 2021 25th January 2022 29th March 2022
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Upcoming Relevant County Council Meetings
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Health and Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee – Staffordshire County Council
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