Agenda item - Chair's Communications

The Chair of the Board will start the meeting with a short update on recent developments on health and wellbeing.

58.1 The Chair gave the following communications:

At today’s board meeting we are looking at two important annual reports: the Brighton & Hove Safeguarding Children annual report and the Learning from the Lives and Deaths of People with a Learning Disability and People and Autistic People annual report. Both reports contain important learning for all the organisations represented at the board on how we need to work individually and jointly to better support our most vulnerable residents.

We also have the refreshed Food Strategy Action Plan for discussion today. This was recently agreed by the council’s Cabinet, but issues relating to food are important for much of the work undertaken by board partners and I wanted to give members the opportunity to learn more about the work being delivered by the Food Partnership.

The board has a statutory duty to oversee delivery of our local Better Care Fund, and we have a report today on Quarter 3 performance.

Finally, we have a paper and presentation on Children & Young People’s Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing. I asked for this paper because improving young people’s mental is a key objective both of our local health and wellbeing strategy and of the Sussex Integrated Care Strategy. It is important that partners work together to deliver better services and that the board has oversight of the development and delivery of this work.