Councillor Mark Booty, Dr Joe McManners and Dr Mary Keenan gave oral progress
reports on the recent activity of each of the three Partnership
Boards:
Health Improvement Board – Councillor
Mark Booty reported that the Board was pleased with progress to
date but recognised that there was a great deal of work to be done.
Activity included:
- A workshop had been held in July
where participation of the voluntary sector and other partners was
welcomed. A range of affiliated projects were identified which
would help to achieve the aims of the Health Improvement
Board;
- Work was underway to identify
priorities and targets for the Board in respect of
housing/homelessness issues in the Strategy;
- The Board had recognised the value
of joint working with Trading Standards on enforcement of under age
sales legislation including alcohol and tobacco sales;
- The next steps included joint
workshops with the Adult Health & Social Care and Children & Young People Partnership
Boards;
- A joint meeting had taken place
between the district council members sitting on the
Boards to initially open up discussion
on housing, with the aim of sharing ideas across all
stakeholders
All acknowledged that Government changes to
the Welfare Benefits system would be of crucial importance to
service delivery. This will be a feature of the work of the Health
Improvement Board in their priority of preventing homelessness.
However, before issues could be tackled, the manner in which the
Supporting People programme would move forward had to be dealt
with.
Sue Butterworth pointed out positive signs of
collaboration across agencies. Furthermore, the Oxfordshire Rural
Community Council, the Oxfordshire Community & Voluntary Action
and the Oxfordshire Wheel were encouraging organisations to work
together and to look for different solutions.
Adult Health & Social Care Partnership
Board – Dr Joe McManners gave a
brief presentation on the work of the Board as follows:
- Universal credits had been the focus
of discussion at the last meeting. Discussion was to continue at
the next meeting;
- A successful workshop had been
convened as a prequel to the consultation on the launch of the
Older People Commissioning Strategy which was to take place during
December and January;
- The Board had discussed the
development of Capable Community Services;
- A flow chart of services was to be
developed to assist people to access services;
- Links were being forged with the
Safeguarding Adults Board.
Children & Young People Partnership Board
– Dr Mary Keenan reported that the Board had been busy with
the following activities:
- A workshop had been held in July to
focus on the period of transition from the Child & Adolescent
Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to the Adult Mental Health
services;
- A joint workshop had been convened
with the Children’s Board on child sexual exploitation, which
was attended by 200+ people, with the
aim of developing a Strategy and a toolkit for supporting staff.
The event featured the drama production
‘Chelsea’s Choice’ which had proved highly
innovative in tackling the issue nationally;
- The Board was also focusing on
maternity services with the aim of providing a high quality service
for all, particularly for vulnerable groups;
- Links for various vulnerable groups
were being made with Safeguarding Children’s Board; and
- Good practice was being shared with
partners on raising achievement in education.
Councillor Booty, Dr McManners and Dr Keenan were thanked for their
updates.
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