Agenda and draft minutes

Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or affected interests in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

Any Member with an affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting.  There is no requirement to withdraw from the meeting when the interest is only an affected interest, but the Monitoring Officer should be notified of the interest, if not previously notified of it, within 28 days of the meeting.

There were no declarations of interest.

There were no Urgent Items of Business.

The minutes of the last meeting held on 10 September 2020 were approved as a correct record.

There were no matters arising from the previous minutes.

QUESTIONS: If you would like to ask a question you must arrive 15 minutes before the start of the meeting to provide the clerk with your name, address and the question you would like to ask. Alternatively, you can provide this information by email to the clerk at committee@bracknell-forest.gov.uk at least two hours ahead of a meeting. The subject matter of questions must relate to an item on the Board’s agenda for that particular meeting. The clerk can provide advice on this where requested.

PETITIONS: A petition must be submitted a minimum of seven working days before a Board meeting and must be given to the clerk by this deadline. There must be a minimum of ten signatures for a petition to be submitted to the Board. The subject matter of a petition must be about something that is within the Board’s responsibilities. This includes matters of interest to the Board as a key stakeholder in improving the health and wellbeing of communities.

There were no items for public participation.

Jane Hogg, Frimley Healthcare Foundation Trust advised that the Trust had been successful in a bid to the national NHS Charities Together fund, including around £100k to support the community and voluntary sector in Bracknell.

Fiona Slevin-Brown, Managing Director for Bracknell Forest reported on the output of a recent Health and Wellbeing workshop which had arisen from the last meeting in order to consider the current JSNA and Health and Wellbeing priorities in light of COVID.

The workshop, held in October, had come up with a shortlist of areas of focus with nuances for particular population groups.

The workshop had highlighted children and young people and mental health as two key areas of focus, and partners were discussing a third priority. Obesity and loneliness and isolation had both been proposed as potential priorities and there was support for both.

In response to questions, the following points were noted:

·        Partners expressed their support for obesity and loneliness and isolation respectively as the third priority.

·        It was noted that Bracknell Forest’s Overview and Scrutiny work included a programme on loneliness and isolation, and the Board could support any scrutiny work in this regard.

·        Partners were reminded of the interconnectivity of loneliness and obesity.

Timothy Wheadon presented on the ICS Roadmap. The Frimley ICS had been recognised nationally as a successful ICS, due to the strong relationships between partner organisations.

Partners had reviewed the performance of the ICS, and had developed a 6 point strategy of priorities which were likely to be reflected across partners’ own plans including Starting Well and Focussing on Community.

Arising from the review, partners had recognised the importance of system-wide working, collaboration, strategic commissioning, a shared financial framework, governance, and a Place-based approach to working. It was noted that a Place-based approach was easier to achieve in small Unitary Authorities.

It was suggested that the Health and Wellbeing Board could be a key link between system and local practices. Councillor Birch asked all Board members to feed their comments on the Board practices and connection to the ICS to himself.