Meeting documents

Agenda Item 5 - Somerset Housing Strategy

The Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board:

Endorsed the content of the Somerset Housing Strategy (SHS) (i.e. it’s Vision, Themes, Priorities and Objectives)

Supports the production of a SHS Delivery Plan that seeks to tackle the key strategic housing issues across the county.

Agenda Item 6 - Annual Public Health Report

The Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board:

Agreed to:-

1. endorse the report.
2. promote cooperation between public and third sector bodies in providing prevention and early intervention wellbeing services for children and young people in Somerset.
3. support the Prevention Concordat for Mental Health and the Prevention Framework for Somerset.
4. play host to a workshop on self-harm to discuss findings with partners.

Agenda Item – 7 - Positive Mental Health

The Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board :

1.    Accepts the contents of the report and approves the recommendation of a refocused collaborative strategy. This strategy will include a new mental health model of delivery which puts greater emphasis on prevention and early intervention and to enable individuals to move within the new model as their needs change. The model will ensure current mental health services are safe and that it provides a platform to build parity with physical health services to deliver the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.

Agenda Item 8 – Health and Care Integration

The Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board:

1.    Received an update on the proposals as part of the overarching strategy and vision work in line with the Somerset Fit for My Future engagement plans.