Agenda item
HEALTH AND WELLBEING STRATEGY UPDATE REPORT FOR PRIORITY AREA 3: ENSURE THE BEST START IN LIFE FOR ALL CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
- Meeting of Health and Wellbeing Board, Thursday, 18th July 2024 2.00 p.m. (Item 6.)
- View the background to item 6.
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Minutes:
The Early Childhood Team Operation Manager and the Public Health Principal presented the report of the Director of Public Health which was the third report in the rolling quarterly ‘deep dive’ session for each of the priority areas. Priority 3 focussed on ensuring the best start in life for all children and young people through the priority’s game changers ‘Best Start/Early Help and Family Help’. The priorities of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy were aligned to the ambitions of the Wirral Plan, particularly, working for brighter futures for children, young people and their families by breaking the cycle of poor outcomes and raising the aspirations of every child in Wirral, as well as working for safe and pleasant communities where our residents feel safe, and where they want to live and raise their families.
It was acknowledged that this was a dynamic and evolving programme and some of the work required further development across the system. It was highlighted that working as a multiagency team, 12 family hubs across Wirral have been created including locations in schools third sector buildings and Local Authority activity centres. The Best Start for Life programme was offered at all the family hubs and provided help for families in a child’s first 1001 days. In addition, the Family Tool Box provided a digital enhanced offer. It was reported that Wiral has been selected as one of the five Pathfinder areas in the country. This delivery of the 12 month Pathfinder programme was scheduled to commence in September 2024. This was to include reshaping the multidisciplinary work on Wirral and testing what worked and this was an excellent opportunity. It was reported that there were two new offers for children and young people. The first was around emotional health and wellbeing and was a digital portal called Branch which would provide services, information and support. Branch would be able to generate real time data. It was explained that a new Mental Health in schools team was due to go live in September 2024 and targeted at secondary schools. The second offer was the risk and resilience approach which would bring together many services in one place, such as substance misuse and sexual health services, to offer a holistic approach and to gather intelligence to add insight to the offer. It was key to link across all the game changers to have the maximum impact and the employment and worklessness game changer was explained. Audits were to be undertaken around attendances at A&E for substance misuse and mental health and attendance at A&E. The mental health data had been collected last week. This was to give a clear baseline of what the picture was when the two new initiatives for children and young people commenced.
It was clarified to members that the report covers children and young people with SEND up to the age of 25. Members asked about the definition of school readiness, the location of the satellite sites and Core 20+5. The Core 20+5 areas being looked at were mental health, obesity, diabetes, asthma and oral health. It was explained that Core 20+5 was one component of the priority 3 plan and the Health and Wellbeing Board will be able to look at the outcomes of the whole plan to give a strategic overview. The Director of Public Health agreed to ask Health to help out on the additional reporting back on priority 3.
Resolved: That
1. the implementation plan for the Priority Area 3 ‘Ensure the Best Start in Life for all Children and Young People and the associated ‘game changers’ Best Start/Early Help and Family Help’ be endorsed.
2. the strategic direction of these game changers be supported, influenced and shaped.
Supporting documents:
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HEALTH AND WELLBEING STRATEGY UPDATE REPORT FOR PRIORITY AREA 3: ENSURE THE BEST START IN LIFE FOR ALL CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, item 6.
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Attachment 1 - Components of Priority 3 implementation, item 6.
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