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WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY, VOLUNTARY AND FAITH SECTOR: UPDATE REPORT

Meeting: 29/09/2021 - Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 26)

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Minutes:

The Director of Public Health introduced the report which provided an update on the approach to working with the Community, Voluntary and Faith (CVF) sector to improve health and reduce inequalities. The Health and Wellbeing Board endorsed the proposed approach at its meeting on 31 March 2021 and the report provided a further update on the work being undertaken.

 

Representatives of the CVF sector were in attendance and provided an update on the ongoing work. It was reported that the project was driven out of the work of the humanitarian cell which was set up in response to Covid-19, and that there was a desire to continue to build on that work. Conferences had been held which involved over 100 organisations in the sector, and during those conferences the sector had identified five key areas for development with task and finish groups being established to take each area forward. These were:

 

·  Increasing collaboration

·  Community, Voluntary and Faith Sector representation

·  Modernising volunteering

·  Behaviours that reflect values

·  Tackling health inequalities

 

The work coming out of these five key areas included working towards a single mechanism for communications, improving collaboration in decision making bodies across the sector and partner organisations and encouraging residents who may not have considered volunteering beforehand to do so through progressing the already modernising ways of working.

 

It was felt across the Board that the pandemic had highlighted the important role of the CVF sector in Wirral and members acknowledged the need for continued close working with the sector, particularly in the context of the proposed introduction of the Integrated Care System and the wider determinants of health such as regeneration.

 

Resolved – That the report be noted and the ongoing work programme be endorsed.