1.
PURPOSE
The purpose of the
Exeter Community Health and Wellbeing Board is to develop
strategies for securing improved health and wellbeing outcomes for
citizens. The Board will operate as an
oversight group holding each other to account on the delivery of
agreed strategies and programmes with a focus on reducing
inequalities across the City.
The Board will promote
integration and partnership working between the City Council, Devon
County Council social care, public health, NHS, voluntary services,
communities and the wider public sector.
The Board will ensure
that all key plans and policies appropriately reflect the health
and wellbeing priorities identified through the joint needs
assessment process (JSNA) and will be informed by data such as the
Integrated Care for Exeter Risk Stratification and Pathway Costing
Tool.
Where necessary the
board will establish ‘expert’ task and finish groups
where additional needs analysis or guidance on the evidence of the
effectiveness of interventions is required; and will establish
project groups where appropriate in order to effectively deliver
objectives of the Board.
2.
FUNCTION
The Board will
maintain an overall focus on encouraging citizens to become more
active and will develop and update an annual evidenced-based Exeter
Community, Health, Wellbeing and Physical Activity Strategy and
delivery plan.
The Board will
continue to have oversight of the Active Exeter Programme and the
development of the Physical Activity Vison Wheel agreed by partners
during 2017 as part of our joint work as part of the Sport England
Local Delivery Pilot programme.
The Board will provide
co-ordination and implementation for agreed strategies. The
priorities for 2018/9 will be the implementation of the Exeter
Youth Strategy (2017) and the adoption of the Exeter Community
Forum Community Strategy (2016) and asset based community
development (ABCD) approaches across the city.
The Board will act as
an oversight and advisory group for the Wellbeing Exeter Steering
Group providing feedback on the delivery of social prescribing and
community building across the City.
The Board will
facilitate an annual themed conference and networking event for
members and wider stakeholders.
2.
MEMBERSHIP
2.1
Reflecting the strategic nature of its work the proposed core
membership of the Exeter Health and Wellbeing Board will
be:
·
Exeter City Councillor
(Leader)
·
Exeter City Councillor (Portfolio Holder
for People)
·
Exeter City Councillor (Portfolio Holder
for Health and Wellbeing, Communities and Sport)
·
Exeter City Councillor
(Opposition)
·
Devon County Councillor (Chair of Health
& Adult Care Scrutiny Committee)
·
Devon County Councillor with Exeter
locus
·
Devon County Council Director of Public
Health
·
Devon County Council Officer (Communities
Team)
·
Exeter City Council Officer
(Director)
·
Exeter City Council Officer (Programme
Manager Communities)
·
Exeter City Council Officer
(Environmental Health and Licencing Manager)
·
Exeter City Community Trust
·
A representative from the Exeter
Community Safety Partnership
·
A representative of the NEW Devon
Clinical Commissioning Group Eastern Locality Forum
·
A representative from Exeter Community
Forum
·
A representative from Active
Devon
·
A representative from Wellbeing
Exeter
·
A representative from the South West
Youth Games – Chef Executive
2.2 The Board will have
the right to co-opt other members as deemed appropriate to its
priorities.
2.3 The Board will elect
a Chair and Vice-Chair on an annual basis from amongst the
group.
2.4 The Board will aim
to meet on a bi-monthly basis (i.e. every two months).
2.5 The Board will
comprise of at least 5 members to be quorate.
2.6 The Board will have
the right to appoint Associate Members to the Board as deemed
appropriate to enhance its level of understanding, and where such
an appointment would be beneficial to the composition of the Board.
Associate Members will have no voting rights.
3.
ACCOUNTABILITY AND LINKS
3.1
The Board will be accountable to the City Council but will have a
range of working/reporting relationships with other Council bodies,
e.g. People Scrutiny Committee, and external partnerships, e.g.
Devon Health and Wellbeing Board, Devon Health and Wellbeing
Scrutiny Committee, Exeter Community Safety Partnership, Active
Devon Exeter Board, Eastern Devon Locality Forum and Wellbeing
Exeter Steering Group.
4.
ENGAGEMENT
4.1 It
is recognised that whilst the Board has a strong strategic focus it
needs to engage with a wider range of local stakeholders. Therefore
the Board will hold and annual conference to share and receive
feedback on the annual health and wellbeing action plan.
4.2
The individual members of the Board are also well placed to seek
the views of the various ‘constituencies’ they
represent and feed views into and out of the cycle of meetings the
Board will hold.
4.3
The board meetings will be held in public with the exception of any
item that the Chair deems to be confidential (any such item will be
heard as a Part 2 item). Members of the public will be able to
submit questions to the Board no later than 7 days in advance of
any meeting; questions will be submitted via the Chair, who will
decide whether or not the question is tabled, and the format for
tabling that question.
4.4
Copies of these terms of reference, agenda, minutes
and reports (except those relating to a confidential part of the
meeting) will be posted on the website of the Exeter City Council
or hard copies will be available on application from Democratic
Services.
5.
SECRETARIAT
5.1
The Board will be supported by Democratic Services with
contributions from other partners, i.e. Public Health,
DCC.
6.
ALTERATIONS TO TERMS
Any
alterations or additions to these terms of reference will be agreed
by a majority of board members at any board meeting.
7.
DEPUTIES
Both core members of the Board and Associate Members
will be able to send a deputy in their stead.