Issue - meetings

The Board is provided with information on the development of local strategic partnerships and outlines the national requirements for new partnership arrangements being introduced in April 2022 as part of legislation and guidance related to formation of Integrated Care Systems (ICS).  All relevant partners and stakeholders will be working over the coming months to ensure that the future framework of partnerships brings best value and impact in terms of improving outcomes for local communities and residents, particularly those who experience inequality and/ or who have additional or complex needs.  The report makes recommendations to strengthen relationships between the Health and Well-Being Board and relevant other partnerships and recommends that prior to the end of 2021, the Health and Well-Being Board considers and approves  a document which sets out the framework  within which all relevant strategic partnerships will work within the BCP Council and the Dorset ICS areas.

Jan Thurgood, Corporate Director presented the report on the development of the BCP Council area and Dorset Integrated Care System Strategy Partnership Framework, a copy of which had been circulated and which appears as Appendix ‘F’ to these minutes in the Minute Book.

The Corporate Director explained that the report provided information on the development of local strategic partnerships and outlined the national requirements for new partnership arrangements being introduced in April 2022 as part of legislation and guidance related to formation of Integrated Care Systems (ICS). The Board was informed that all relevant partners and stakeholders would be working over the coming months to ensure that the future framework of partnerships brings best value and impact in terms of improving outcomes for local communities and residents, particularly those who experience inequality and/or who have additional or complex needs.

The report makes recommendations to strengthen relationships between the Health and Well-Being Board and relevant other partnerships and recommends that prior to the end of 2021, the Health and Well-Being Board considers and approves a document which sets out the framework within which all relevant strategic partnerships will work within the BCP Council and the Dorset ICS areas.

The Director of Public Health highlighted the design principles for the ICS which had been published yesterday which can be provided to the Board and highlighted the importance of place-based partnership forums in bringing forward an integrated plan which looks at the improvement of outcomes for health and care services.

RESOLVED that

(a)  The Chairs of i) the Pan-Dorset Safeguarding Children Partnership; ii) the Children and Young People’s Partnership iii) the BCP Safeguarding Adults Board and iv) the BCP Community Safety Board are given an open invitation to attend Health and Well-Being Board meetings and can make requests to the Chair of the Health and Well-Being Board to put items on the Board’s agenda.*

(b)  The Health and Well-Being Board holds a development session to consider the new requirements in relation to partnerships as part of Integrated Care Systems and develops recommendations as to how the BCP Health and Well-Being Board can work most effectively in the context of Dorset ICS from April 2022.

(c)  The Health and Well-Being Board considers and approves a document which sets out a framework for the future working arrangements between relevant strategic partnerships across the BCP Council and the Dorset ICS areas before 31st December 2021.

* It was acknowledged that the Board’s terms of reference would need to be amended to take account of the decision at (a) above

Voting: Agreed