Agenda

To receive any apologies for absence from Councillors.

To receive information on any changes in the membership of the Committee.

Note – When a member of a Committee is unable to attend a meeting of a Committee or Sub-Committee, the relevant Political Group Leader (or their nominated representative) may, by notice to the Monitoring Officer (or their nominated representative) prior to the meeting, appoint a substitute member from within the same Political Group. The contact details on the front of this agenda should be used for notifications.

To confirm and sign as a correct record the minutes of the Meeting held on 9 June 2025.

Councillors are requested to declare any interests on items included in this agenda. Please refer to the workflow on the preceding page for guidance.

Declarations received will be reported at the meeting.

To receive any public questions, statements or petitions submitted in accordance with the Constitution. Further information on the requirements for submitting these is available to view at the following link:-

https://democracy.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/documents/s2305/Public%20Items%20-%20Meeting%20Procedure%20Rules.pdf 

The deadline for the submission of public questions is 12:00 noon on Tuesday 30 September.

The deadline for the submission of a statement is 12.00 noon on Friday 3 October 2025.

The deadline for the submission of a petition is Friday 19 September 2025.

The BCP Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) publishes an Annual Report each year and is required, as set out in the Care Act 2014, to present this to the Council’s Health & Wellbeing Board.
Many Councils also request that the report is presented to Scrutiny as the report enables a discussion on the work of the Safeguarding Adults Board.

The attached report is for the year April 2024 to March 2025.The report was agreed at the September meeting of the BCP Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB).

The BCP SAB has successfully worked together with the Dorset SAB with joint meetings over the year.

We publish 2 separate Annual Reports, one for each of the Boards as they are separately constituted. Throughout 24-25, BCP SAB has delivered against all priorities which are set out in the annual work plan; this Annual Report summarises what the Board has achieved.

This report for the period April 2024-March 2025 sets out that since the dissolution of the ‘Pan-Dorset Safeguarding Children Partnership’, the new BCP Safeguarding Children Partnership has focussed on implementing new arrangements to fulfil the statutory responsibilities of the three statutory safeguarding partners who have joint responsibility and accountability for the multi-agency safeguarding arrangements in the BCP geographical area.??The three statutory safeguarding partners are BCP Council, NHS Dorset ICB and Dorset Police. Within this period of significant change, partners have maintained a focus on safeguarding children and through the new arrangements have gained insights on the effectiveness of how well partners work together to safeguard local children and young people, and areas to be developed. Full details of the multi-agency safeguarding arrangements can be seen here. 

The report provides an account of: 

·       What we have done as part of our local arrangements, including any child safeguarding practice review 

·       Impact of learning from local and national reviews 

·       How we have applied independent scrutiny to review and challenge our safeguarding practice 

·       How education partners are engaged with 

·       Future improvements that can be made as to the effectiveness of local safeguarding arrangements. 

This report will be submitted to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel by 30 September 2025 and will be published on the BCP Safeguarding Children Partnership website.

This report provides an overview of the Quarter 1 Report of the Better Care Fund (BCF) for 2025-26.

The BCF is a key delivery vehicle in providing person-centred integrated care with health, social care, housing, and other public services, which is fundamental to maintaining a strong and sustainable health and care system.

The report is a part of the requirements set by the Better Care Fund 2025-26 Policy Framework. The report must be jointly agreed and signed off by the Health and Wellbeing Board as one of the planning requirements.

The Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Health and Wellbeing Board, and the Dorset Health and Wellbeing Board, are both required to publish a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) every three years. A new PNA has been developed as a single document covering both areas as agreed during transition and is scheduled for publication in October 2025.

The Steering Group reviewed current population needs, future population growth, and current pharmaceutical services. They concluded that, although there have been changes since the last PNA, these are unlikely to significantly affect access to, or the provision of, pharmaceutical services. Therefore, no gaps in pharmaceutical service provision have been identified.

The Steering Group now seeks approval from the Health and Wellbeing Board to proceed with publication of the new PNA.

A statutory consultation was carried out to support the development of the PNA. Consultation responses were considered, and where appropriate, amendments were made to the PNA (see Appendix 1).

This report and associated documents provides;

·       An update on the progress towards the development of the Health and Wellbeing Board Strategy for the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole area

·       A draft strategy for comments and considerations from the Board

·       Proposals for further stakeholder engagement on the strategy prior to finalisation

To consider the Board’s Work Plan.

For the Board to note the dates of future meetings as follows:

• 12 January 2026 at 2.00pm
• 9 March 2026 at 2.00pm