Issue - meetings

Report by Director of Public Health and Communities

The Council is to be informed on the structure and overview of content, including key messages, of the upcoming Oxfordshire County Council Director of Public Health Annual Report (2024/2025) focussed on children and young people’s mental health and economic activity.

The Council is RECOMMENDED to note the Director of Public Health’s Annual Report in Annex 1 and to take every opportunity to support actions and initiatives that will progress related work.

Recommendation approved.

Directors of Public Health have a statutory duty to publish an annual report on a subject of their choice that they feel demonstrates the state of health within their community. Council considered this report which focussed on children and young people’s mental health and economic activity.

Before the report was proposed, Council heard from two experts on climate change and the health impacts, Mina Fazel, Chair of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, and Emma Coles from Oxfordshire Inclusive Economy Partnership.

The report was proposed by Councillor Nathan Ley, Cabinet Member for Public Health, Inequalities & Community Safety and seconded by Councillor Liz Leffman, Leader of the Council.  Following discussion, the recommendations were agreed unanimously.

RESOLVED to note the Director of Public Health’s Annual Report in Annex 1 and to take every opportunity to support actions and initiatives that will progress related work.