Meeting
Health and Wellbeing Board - Southampton
Scheduled Time
Wednesday, 24th July 2024
5:30 PM
Wednesday, 24th July 2024
9:30 PM
Confirmed
24 Jul 2024
Conference Room 1&2
Suki Sitaram
Healthwatch
Present, as expected
Debbie Chase
Director of Public Health
Present, as expected
Dr Sarah Young
Southampton Clinical Director, HIOW Integrated Care Board
Present, as expected
James House
Southampton Place Director, HIOW Integrated Care Board
Present, as expected
Dr Michael Roe
Local Paediatrician Community
Present, as expected
Claire Edgar
Executive Director - Wellbeing and Housing
Present, as expected
Councillor Marie Finn
Cabinet Member for Adults and Health
Present, as expected
Emily Goodwin
In attendance
Vacancy
Mental Health Clinician
Expected
Rob Kurn
SVS
In attendance
Dr Tevor Smith
University Hospital Southampton
Absent
Robert Henderson
Executive Director - Wellbeing for Children and Learning
Present, as expected
- Document Minutes of Previous Meeting 12 Jul 2024
RESOLVED that the minutes of the Board meeting on 13 March 2024 be approved and signed as a correct record, subject to the amendments noted above.
- Document Childhood Obesity - Whole System Approach 12 Jul 2024
- Document Enc. 1 for Childhood Obesity - Whole System Approach 12 Jul 2024
Ravita Taheem, Senior Public Health Practitioner, Southampton City Council; Doctor Karen Malone, GP and Clinical Director at Southampton Integrated Care Board; Rob Kurn, Chief Executive Officer Southampton Voluntary Services; Councillor Kataria, Cabinet Member for Compliance and Leisure; and Councillor Bogle, Cabinet Member for Economic Development; were in attendance and with the consent of the Chair addressed the meeting.
The Board noted that the strategy identified four key drivers of childhood obesity in Southampton:
1. Time and resource poor families
2. Mixed signals
3. Public spaces are perceived a unsafe, unpleasant and off-limits
4. Local polices with competing priorities
In discussion the board noted the following:
· Systems are made of their interactive parts and together they interact and produce the output
· Interventions to date try to address the output of childhood obesity but do not address the system or any elements of the system that causes childhood obesity in the first place
· The system can only be changed by those in power, underneath that is the system design the structure the needs to be put in place to fulfil the system intent, and the next level is system feedback which is about strengthening what works and trying to slow down what doesn’t’ work.
· Action was needed at all levels to try to change the causes and drivers of childhood obesity and not just to solve the symptom of childhood obesity.
· Coventry Council were also interested in the whole systems approach to reducing childhood obesity
· The whole system approach steps away from blaming the individual and says the outcome we have on childhood obesity is due to the systems that surround communities
RESOLVED that the Board would adopt a systems approach where the sectoral and organisational leaders on the Board, with input from the Child Friendly Board and the Safe City Partnership, would collaborate across sectors and directorates to prioritise, refine, monitor and embed activities and polices to tackle the causes of childhood obesity and that the Board would request regular progress updates on how the key drivers are being incorporated in the workplan and activities of key groups and boards.
wellbeing programme; #BeeWell.
- Document #BeeWell Programme - key findings 12 Jul 2024
- Document Appendix 1 - Presentation to Board on 24 July 2024 (PowerPoint) 12 Jul 2024
- Document Appendix 2 - Headline report summarising key findings 12 Jul 2024
Natalie Madden, #BeeWell Programme Manager; Phil Lovegrove, Service Development Officer, Integrated Commissioning Unit, NHS Southampton CCG; Doctor Karen Malone, GP and Clinical Director at Southampton Integrated Care Board; Rob Kurn, Chief Executive Officer, Southampton Voluntary Services; were present and with the consent of the chair addressed the Board.
In discussion it was noted that:
· The information collected through the survey was self-reported information, that was provided through the schools that participated in the survey. In local areas where the information collected was considered to be representative of the local population schools and partners had responded quickly to the data and collaborated on making a difference to the health outcomes identified as areas to focus on improvement.
· Key issues highlighted included loneliness, vaping, discrimination, harassment and violent crime.
RESOLVED that the findings of the #BeeWell survery would be used in context with other data sources to identify opportunities to work collaboratively across the whole system to improve young people’s health and wellbeing.
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