Agenda item

The Board received a report and presentation from the Chief Officer, North Durham and Durham Dales Easington & Sedgefield Clinical Commissioning Groups that presented part B (Children and Young People) of the Durham Health and Wellbeing System Plan 2019/20 (for copy see file of Minutes).

The Director of Strategy and Delivery, North Durham and DDES CCG highlighted the key areas of the plan which had been developed under the leadership of the Integrated Steering Group for Children, which included:

·         Children and Young People’s Strategy

·         The Integrated Steering Group for Children governance and work programme

·         Integrated commissioning approach for children and the priorities linked to the inspection regimes in children’s services

·         Therapy services

·         Development of place based 0-19 services

The Director of Strategy and Delivery advised of a joint development session being held on 13 June with the Adults, Wellbeing and Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee and the Health and Wellbeing Board that would discuss the development of the longerterm plan.

Councillor Gunn commented that partnership working was the key and crucial to keep improving ways of working together.  Referring to the quarter 4 presentation slide about co-production with children, young people and families, she asked how this would operate and how would engagement work.  The Director of Strategy and Delivery reported that the CCG fund an organisation to help with the co-production and that they would be going out to ask the people affected how they would like to see the services delivered.  Stakeholder groups would also be utilised to help talk to parents and carers.  Councillor Gunn added that the voice of the child ran through everything we were doing and these discussions needed to be ongoing.

The Strategic Manager, Partnerships, Durham County Council informed the board the Head of Partnerships and Community Engagement, Durham County Council was carrying out a wider piece of work in the Council and with partners to take on board the views of young people to ensure we can show what difference we are making to the lives of children and young people.

The Director of Public Health, Durham County Council added that the co-production of this area of work would also help to refresh the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy and the Corporate Director of Children and Young People’s Services, Durham County Council said that we needed to report more of the good things that we had done as a lot of positive work had already been undertaken with children and young people.  She added that an annual report would be developed about the ‘Voice of the Child’ and assured the board that children and families had been engaged with lots of different pieces of work.

The Chairman thanked officers for the report and was pleased that the board had some good positive actions adding that the child’s voice was fundamental in moving forward and capturing all the good things that were happening.

Resolved:

(i)            That the report and plan were noted.

(ii)          That the approach to the development of the long term Durham System Health and Wellbeing Plan outlined in the report be noted.