Agenda item
UPDATE ON PSB PRIORITIES
To inform members of progress to date against the priority areas and seek approval for specific areas of work.
(a) Mental Well-being
To receive a verbal update on the Mental Well-being priority by Richard Firth (Public Health Wales)
(b) Community Empowerment
To receive an update on the Community Empowerment priority by Judith Greenhalgh (Chief Executive, DCC), and Helen Wilkinson (Chief Executive, DVSC) (copy attached)
(c) Environmental Resilience
To receive an update on the Environment Resilience priority by the Chair (copy attached)
2.15 p.m. – 3.00 p.m.
Minutes:
(a) Mental Well-being
Richard Firth (Public Health Wales)
provided an update on the mental well-being priority. He confirmed work is
beginning to progress on this priority, with meetings held with BCUHB and the
Local Implementation Team (LIT) for Conwy and Denbighshire.
Looking at rural focus together with the
effect of Brexit. Libraries work was
ongoing which tied in with LIT (Local Implementation Team) and ICAN. They were setting up mental health and
suicide training and hoping to take that further. A paper was to be produced and circulated to
all PSB members.
A report is currently being drafted, with
data measurements available in approximately one week. This will provide an up
to date position on the priority and contain options for taking strand of work
forward.
The Chair requested the paper be circulated
to the Board in early January, in order for Members to consider.
It was agreed that a briefing note prior to
the meeting be supplied within the agenda pack in future.
(b) Community Empowerment
Judith Greenhalgh, Chief Executive of
Denbighshire County Council, informed the Board that cross partnership working
was working well with opportunities for joint working being explored. The sub-group will next meet in February 2020
to progress this work.
In regards Dementia Aware Community Led
programme, it was noted that a lot of community led work had taken place. In January 2020 planning for the Dementia
Friendly week which will be in May 2020 will commence. It was suggested that the PSB take a
collaborative approach to support activities during Dementia Week.
HW informed members that DVSC had been a
successful recipient of the Foundational Economy Challenge Fund to support the
reopening of Ruthin Market Hall with Denbighshire County Council. The Market Hall will be run as a Social
Enterprise to support inclusive economic growth in the area. A meeting was due
to take place in Ruthin and papers to be shared from the Welsh Government.
Work on homelessness had not been provided
due to capacity issues. It was
confirmed that before an update could be provided, issues needed to be
prioritised and further work carried out.
The National Lottery provided priority funding for homelessness schemes.
(c) Environment Resilience
Fran Lewis, Corporate Performance and
Improvement Manager (CCBC) provided an update on the community Green Pledges
and Environmental Policy Statements (previously circulated).
Following approval of the Community Pledges
in July 2019 by the Board, work has progressed with Conwy County Borough
Council’s marketing team to support the engagement of the scheme. A meeting has been arranged with the
Communications Officers from PSB partner organisations to share and seek views
on this work and discuss how partners can help promote and encourage
participation of the scheme.
The Community Pledges will be formally
launched in the New Year. In the interim
officers are using partners own
engagement activity as a soft launch for the scheme to inform groups how they
can get involvement.
The Environmental Position Statement had been
revised to focus on 2 commitment areas, Carbon and Energy and Climate Change
Adaptation.
FL informed members that draft
measures have been identified, however there are some actions where measures
had not been identified as further work was required to establish
direction. The environment sub-group
will be reconvened in the New Year to progress this work and finalise the
performance measures.
An update was presented for the
Regional Environment Programme Board by the Chair.
Following the regional environment
event which was held in September 2019, there were proposals to establish a
regional approach to the PSBs environment work.
This was taken to the North Wales Regional Leadership Board and included:
·
Establishing a North Wales Regional Environment
Programme Board
·
Establishing sub-groups for each of the themes
identified at the event (fleet, assets, procurement and land management)
·
Use the North Wales Regional Public Services
Board grant to commission a consultant to initially scope and provide
recommendations to take the Board forward.
The North Wales Regional Leadership
Board were supportive of the proposals and requested further information on
structure and proposed membership be provided at a future meeting.
Work was progressing on developing
a tender specification to commission consultant to scope and identify
gaps. It was anticipated the tendering
process would start in the New Year.
Iwan Davies informed members that
the North Wales Regional Leadership Board have identified climate change as a
priority. The Board is due to hold a
workshop in January 2020 to establish direction.
Bethan Jones informed members that
BCUHB were to hold a workshop with an environmental specialist in the New Year.
RESOLVED that
- the Board notes the PSB priorities updates.
- the mental well-being options report is circulated to Members when
available in the New Year.
- the performance measures for the environment position statement be
presented at the March 2020 meeting.
Supporting documents:
- 4b. PSB Cover Report - Community Empowerment (Dec update 19), item 4. PDF 221 KB
- 4b. Appendix A Community Empowerment Priority (December 2019 update), item 4. PDF 700 KB
- 4c. Environmental Priority update (December 2019), item 4. PDF 625 KB