Meeting documents

The Board is asked to confirm the minutes are accurate.

The Chairman will allow members of the public to ask a question or make a statement about any matter on the agenda for this meeting.

To consider the report. 

The Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board considered the annual progress report and the supporting forward actions and agreed to:

·        Liaise with District Councils to consider housing need and provision in more detail at a future meeting. 

To consider the report.

The Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board agreed to:

• Acknowledge the value of The Mental Health Challenge and recognise that local authorities have a key role in improving mental health in their communities. 
• Ask District Councils to consider adopting a Mental Health Champion when appropriate.
• That the Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board, in accordance with the authority delegated to it by the County Council by unanimous decision on 29 November 2017, appoints the Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board as the Mental Health Champion for adults, and the Chair of the Scrutiny for Policies Children and Families Committee to become Mental Health Champions for children and young people for the term of twelve months, when the scheme will be reviewed. 

To consider the report.

The Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board agreed to:

• Note the contents of the paper alongside the draft 2018/19 Strategic Plan
• Continue to promote adult safeguarding across the County Council and in commissioned services
• Request that consideration be given to including a method of measuring performance in implementing the Plan.

To consider the report.

The Health and Wellbeing Board agreed to endorse the approach to the Home First discharge model and to support its continuation and exploring a health and social care funding solution for 2018/19.

To receive a verbal update.

It was agreed to defer this item to the next meeting on 24 May 2018.

To discuss any items for the work programme. To assist the discussion, attached is the Board’s current work programme.

The Board considered the work programme and agreed to add the following items:

·        Ofsted Inspection of Children’s Services (May)

·        Care Leavers update (May)

·        Empower Update (July)

·        Health & Care Strategy

The Chairman may raise any items of urgent business.