Agenda item

To inform members of progress to date against the priority areas and seek approval for specific areas of work.

 

a.    People - Mental Well-being

To receive a verbal update on the Mental Well-being priority.

 

Teresa Owen (Executive Director, BCU)

 

b.    Community - Community Empowerment

       i.        To receive an update on the Community Empowerment priority and to seek approval for the approach and resourcing of the weight management project. 

 

Judith Greenhalgh (Chief Executive, DCC)

 

      ii.        To receive a verbal update on the Dementia Aware Community Led programme.

 

Helen Wilkinson (Chief Executive, DVSC)

 

c.    Place - Environmental Resilience

To receive an update on the Environment Resilience priority and to seek approval for the Community Green Pledges and Environment Position Statement. 

 

Iwan Davies (Chief Executive, CCBC)

 

Questions for the Board to consider -

·         Should a regional approach be taken to the priorities? (e.g. environment)

·         Committing staff / financial resources / assigning leads

·         Who can contribute to the priorities? (e.g. representatives on each working group)

·         How is PSB work embedded in your organisation?

 

9:35am – 10:35am

 

 

a.            People - Mental Well-being

 

It was clarified that there was no major information to present since the last update.

 

It was raised that other PSB’s across Wales had been approaching mental health differently. It was suggested the PSB could liaise further with the Regional Partnership Board and Local Implementation Team (LIT) as. It would be beneficial to discuss what avenues of work were being carried out by both organisations. The landscape of the work being carried out in regards to mental health was clustered and clarity of the work being conducted would be beneficial.

 

It was agreed that the Mental Well-being would be the focus of the next PSB meeting.

 

b.         Community - Community Empowerment

 

Judith Greenhalgh – Chief Executive (JG) presented the update on the Community aspect of the PSB priority.

 

The implementation of the Weight Management project was likely to be focused in Rhyl within Denbighshire, there would be close working with the BCUHB on the project. Nominations of organisations to work on the project would be sought and returned to the PSB.

 

A dementia awareness workshop which was carried out during Dementia awareness week was commended as being a community led event, with stakeholders present. There was an impact report being produced which would be presented in the autumn; following the report being brought a joint event between DCC and CCBC would be arranged to engage with a larger demographic.

 

Dementia awareness was highlighted by the board and whether there had been correspondence with the Alzheimer Society. It was clarified that communication had not been carried out, but discussions would be carried out in the future. Welsh language within the Dementia friendly organisations was highlighted and whether there was enough work being carried out with Welsh speaking staff. Responding it was clarified that the Welsh language was taken seriously, it was noted that current vacancies within the DVSC were highlighted as Welsh essential. It was agreed the vacancies could also be advertised through DCC’s sites.

 

RESOLVED – that a progress report on dementia projects be returned to PSB in autumn, including considerations for scaling the work up and including partners.

 

c.         Place - Environmental Resilience

 

Iwan Davies Chief Executive (ID) of Conwy County Borough Council presented Community Green Pledges and Environmental Policy Statements update (previously circulated).

 

The purpose of the report was for members to note the progress with the Community Green Pledges and Environmental Policy Statements.

 

In relation to the Community Green Pledges, the Board agreed to approve this work.  The Chair proposed that any final amendments be circulated to the project officers by the end of July.  

 

The Board were informed that a communication plan is in development to launch the scheme.  Funding is being sought from the regional PSB grant to support this work.

 

In relation to the Environmental Policy Statement, it was clarified that it would be beneficial if the board would agree to focus on select number of commitments within the environmental policy statements as initial priorities.  

 

The commitments that were suggested to be focused on were the first two, which were:

 

·         To reduce our carbon and energy usage, so by 2030 we would be a carbon neutral public sector.

·         To reduce the amount of waste generated from our activities, so by 2050 there would be zero waste sent to landfill.

 

It was advised that a partnership approach towards the commitments would be beneficial; with the environmental policy especially, as all organisations within the PSB had their own approaches to deal with the carbon neutral commitment. The board was informed of a workshop to discuss climate change was organised for the 18^th September.

 

The board was informed that both DCC and CCBC had declared climate emergencies and aimed for both counties to be carbon neutral by 2030.

 

Bethan Jones (BCUHB) commended the work, and the commitments that were listed would be a challenge for the BCUHB as the size of the organisation would make it difficult to adopt the environmental policy statements.

 

The funding avenues for the commitments were being sought. The community fund with windfarm developments was a possible avenue for funding. 

 

The Board agreed that carbon and energy should be the overarching priority but the ‘commitments’ shouldn’t be limited at this stage. 

 

Members agreed to take the refreshed version of the policy statement document to their organisation to obtain views. Following the discussion the matter of the Community Green Pledges and Environmental Policy Statements would be returned for discussion at the next PSB board meeting.

 

RESOLVED that

 

1. Mental health be the focus on the next PSB meeting, including an update from the Regional Partnership Board and Local Implementation Team (LIT).
2. A progress report against the Dementia element of the community empowerment priority be presented at a future meeting.
3. The Community Green Pledges are approved, with final amendments to be sent by the end of July.
4. The policy statement is revised in line with Board discussion and circulated to the Board in order to seek views internally from Member organisations.
5. An update on the environment outputs be provided at the next meeting.