Agenda item

3:40

20 minutes

To receive updates from the Children’s Trust, the Health Improvement Partnership Board, the Joint Management Groups and the Integrated Strategic Delivery Board (HWB12):

(a)          Report from Children’s Trust;

(b)          Report from Better Care Fund Joint Management Group;

(c)          Report from Health Improvement Board;

(d)          Report from Adults Joint Management Group;

(e)          Report from Integrated Systems Delivery Board.

Close of meeting – 4:00 pm

The Board received updates from the Board’s Partnership Board (HWB12). The following was drawn to the attention of the Board:

Children’s Trust – Lucy Butler reported the following:

-       Oxfordshire Youth had taken the lead for the whole of the ‘be supported’ programme, the ‘Children Missing out on Education’ project had been very successful;

-       A Statement of Action for children with SEND would be submitted to a future meeting of this Board; and

-       A significant amount of thought was going into the new model family safeguarding model which would be reported in more detail at a future meeting.

Councillor Upton asked whether the £5.4m funding for children on the CAMHS programme was sufficient. Lucy Butler explained that this was a specific piece of work to support schools. She added that it had been started in Oxford City, where the greatest need was, and it was hoped it would be rolled out to the whole county.

Louise Patten added that nationally there had been an unprecedented rise in  referrals to CAMHS and demand had continued to rise. A significant amount of funding had been devoted to this.

Joint Management Groups for Adults

Ele Crichton, Lead Commissioner, reported, highlighting the following:

-       HART services – OUH was leading on the development of an improvement plan;

-       Work was taking place in relation to supporting capacity in home care; on a home care commissioning strategy; and on urgent care planning for the winter; and

-       Engagement was also taking place on the co-production of an Adults Strategy with partners. This would be brought for comment to a future meeting of this Board.

Health Improvement Board

Councillor Andrew McHugh, Chairman, highlighted the following:

-       Significant progress had been made on the production of a Domestic Violence Strategy;

-       There was concern over a drop in the take up of MMR vaccinations. As a result the HIB had requested a performance report from NHSE;

-       In relation to social prescribing, the Board was in the process of scoping a workshop on this subject.

Integrated System Delivery Board (ISDB)

Louise Patten reported that the key priorities of this officer group was to both oversee and enable any issue that prevented Chief Executives from developing an integrated agenda. She reported that it was now viewed as having an integrated agenda and also seen as an equal partner with Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. Progress had been speedy towards getting everything aligned. The next step was to develop it into an Integrated Care Partnership Board and encouraging the involvement of other people.

Professor Smith re-iterated an issue voiced by some which was that the ISDB was a ‘closed shop’. In response to this, Yvonne Rees defined it as a place where conversations took place which then enabled decisions to be made in the public domain. Officer conversations were required as part of the process, without this informed decision-making would suffer. She suggested that perhaps ‘network’ was a better description than ‘Board’.

Professor Smith suggested that engagement with staff had not been visible – and real engagement with the grass roots was required. Lou Patten responded that this took place at individual, organisational level. There was agreement that there was still more to be done, as plans were developed. Yvonne Rees agreed, adding that in order for chief executives to deliver strategies and performance indicators, buy in from staff was needed to provide assurance to those doing the work. This was part of the business as usual’ strategy.

All were thanked for their updates.

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