Meeting documents

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

The Health and Wellbeing Board and Integrated Care Partnership received information on the future issues to be brought before the Board and the process for doing so.

Lou Woolway, Deputy Director of Public Health who manages the work programme, advised that it was in a state of transition and there is an attempt to keep oversight of everything.  The plan for the next meeting in January includes bringing back the Integrated Care Strategy for approval, the Health Protection Report, Children’s Safeguarding, and perhaps some early work on this Board’s Terms of Reference and membership.  There is an attempt to bring system-level agenda items to this joint committee, so the Health Protection item will look at a system-wide response rather than presenting a standard report.  There will be two more meetings of this Board, one in January and one in March, before the Council moves to unitary status. 

Cllr Keen requested that at the March meeting there be a discussion about the safeguarding of children who have been excluded from school and also those who are home schooled.  Cllr Munt responded that it was uncertain if this could be done, as only children who were originally registered for school in Somerset are known, not those who moved into and out of the county; and until there is some national register tying birth certificates with the location of people, this could not be effective. 

Cllr Shearer stated that she was interested in bringing such system-wide issues to the meetings, including perhaps a discussion on preventing exclusions.  Lou Woolway noted that there had been a SEND workshop in September, for which she had sent out the recording, which had touched on exclusions in relation to children with special education needs and disabilities.