Community Wellbeing and Older People's Board

The aim:

• The Community Wellbeing & Older Peoples board will promote and support the independence and well-being of the people of Essex.
• The board leads on the development and implementation of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment, The Community Wellbeing Strategy, The Essex Later Life Strategy and the Essex Prevention Strategy to promote wellbeing across the county. The scope of the group is wider than traditional health and social care and seeks to promote community wellbeing in all work across the county.

Objectives:

• The Community Well-being and Older People s Board will look at the wide range of issues that are important to promoting and achieving Community Well-being and supporting Older People. E.g. housing, leisure activities, travel, income, health, social needs and environment. This will be linked to policies on strong neighbourhoods.

Key elements of the board s work programme will be:

• Community health and well-being strategy
• Strategy for Later Life in Essex
• Prevention strategy
• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (please note that this group will also report directly to the other LAA blocks)

Communication:

• A communication strategy will be developed that will identify principles for communication and engagement with all stakeholders including service users. Members of the group will be responsible for ensuring two way communications with the organisation(s) they represent.

Essex Strategy and LAA objectives

The LAA Liberating Potential is the delivery mechanism for the Essex Strategy. The current LAA runs for 3 years (to 2011), and captures high level action plans through which outcomes and aims will be achieved.

The CWOP Board will be responsible for delivering;

• Priority 2:
• * Number of emergency bed days per head of weighted population (NI 134)
• * Carers receiving needs assessments or review and a specific carer's service or advice and information (NI 135)
• * of vulnerable people achieving independent living (NI 141)
• * People 65+ who say they receive the information, assistance and support to live independently (LI 5)
• Priority 3:
• * Lower mortality rate in least healthy areas (NI 120)
• * 16+ smoking rate prevalence (NI 123)
• * Number of people with mental health problems helped into employment of education (LI 7)

List of strategies, plans, contracts etc agreed by the partnership.

• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
• Essex Later Life Strategy
• Essex Prevention Strategy
• Community Health and Wellbeing Strategy
• Delivery of current LAA targets - Priority 2 & 3 (LAA2)
• Developing priorities and targets for the next LAA

Key data owned by the partnership

Each Thematic Partnership has produced an Annual Report to summarise progress over the last year as well as considering issues and risks to future delivery.

Members

People

• Loretta Sollars (Lead Officer) Contact through email.

Organisations

• Essex County Council

Working groups

No working groups