Agenda item - Brighton & Hove Caring Together - June update

Verbal update from the Dr. David Supple and the Executive Director for Health and Adult Social Care.

6.1         RESOLVED: That the information given in the presentation be noted.

6.1         The Chair invited the Executive Director for Health and Adult Social Care and Dr. Supple to update the Board on the Caring Together project.

6.2         The Executive Director for Health and Adult Social Care and Dr. Supple gave a short presentation on Caring Together, (a copy of the slides can be found in the supporting papers to the meeting of the Board - ).  The Executive Director stated that the STP was now being referred to as the Sustainability and Transformation Partnership, which included East and West Sussex and part of Surrey as well as Brighton & Hove.  It meant that Brighton & Hove were part of 23 organisations that formed the partnership and it now had the opportunity to develop service provision for the City and then feed into the STP.

6.3         Dr. Supple noted that the first engagement event was scheduled for the 4^th July and that others were being planned across the city.

6.4         The Board welcomed the presentation and asked for regular updated to future meetings on the matter.  Members of the Board also welcomed the approach and stated that they felt more positive about the joint working and hoped that in having conversations across the city that they would be taken on board and information considered in relation to developing how services could be provided within the city.

6.5         The Chair noted the comments and moved that the information be noted.

6.6         RESOLVED: That the information given in the presentation be noted.