Agenda item

This report asks the Health and Wellbeing Board to approve the establishment of a Children’s and Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Programme Board as a sub-committee of the Health and Wellbeing Board.

Board members received a report asking it to approve the establishment of a Children’s and Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Programme Board as a sub-committee of the Health and Wellbeing Board. The Assistant Director - Consultant in Public Health and the Interim Director of Children’s Services were in attendance to present the report and respond to questions.

Key points raised during the presentation of the report included:

·        The Children’s and Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Programme Board would be the successor to the YorOK Board, which had a role in delivering priorities of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy, although it had not met since 2019.

·        The purpose of the new programme board was to take forward local strategic priorities and to link into new structures of the Integrated Care System.

·        There had been a number of conversations and meetings with local stakeholders around setting up the programme board, as well as a workshop. The result was the draft terms of reference attached to the report.

·        The main objectives of the new board were to have oversight of delivery of improvements to maternity, children’s and young people’s health and care in York and over transformation programmes; to set the strategic direction to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people in York; to influence the wider things that impact on health and wellbeing such as housing and poverty.

·        The principles by which the board was to work included reducing duplication of work, reducing inequalities and taking an asset based approach.

·        The suggested membership of the board was also included in the draft terms of reference.

Comments/questions from members included:

·        It was suggested that the Terms of Reference include mention of the Starting Well and Growing Well themes from the current Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy and that Director of Operations, North Yorkshire & York – Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust be included on the new board.

·        Concerns were raised that the only councillors who were members of the proposed board were to be executive members, and that opposition councillors would have no representation unlike the former YorOK Board.

·        The manager of Healthwatch requested that her organisation be allowed to send a representative to the new programme board, due to concerns around representation of volunteer groups.

·        It was suggested that colleges in York be involved in the new board due to their role in supporting Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and their links with universities in continuing to support the mental health of young people.

·        The first report from the new programme board to the HWBB was expected in September 2022 and thereafter on an annual basis.

Resolved:

i.             That the establishment of a Children and Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Programme Board as a sub-committee of the Health and Wellbeing Board be approved.

ii.            That the suggestions made by HWBB members in terms of membership of the programme board be further explored

iii.          That the Terms of Reference for the new programme board be approved subject to annual review.

Reason: To support the health and wellbeing of young people in York.