People & Communities Board

The People & Communities Board brings together work areas around children and families, community safety, health, housing, social care and stronger communities.

This new Board brings together the previous Children & Families Partnership, the Health & Wellbeing Partnership and the Safer, Stronger Partnership and has a number of statutory duties across all these work areas.

The People & Communities Board key responsibilities are to:

• Develop and implement a People & Community Strategy bringing together the Safer Partnership Plan, the new Health & Wellbeing Strategy and the Children & Families Partnership Plan
• Lead on public involvement in health provision
• Strategic coordination of safeguarding functions for adults and children
• Involvement in development of and sign off for commissioning plans as appropriate and promoting joint commissioning where possible
• Produce the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
• Oversee the delivery of performance reward grant projects

Working together the Board will achieve a range of outcomes such as:

• Improving health outcomes
• Strengthening safeguarding for children and vulnerable adults
• Improving outcomes and reducing costs of children's services by enabling early intervention and prevention
• Improving outcomes for adults by promoting independence, choice and control over services
• Working with communities to better meet local housing needs
• Enabling and supporting communities to meet their own needs
• Making our streets and communities safer
• Enabling schools to raise attainment levels

Membership

The People & Communities Board membership meets the statutory requirements laid down in the Health & Social Care Bill which will come into law in 2013, the requirements for duties placed on the Responsible Authorities Group under Community Safety legislation and the requirements for statutory duties for Children & Young People. In addition, the new Board can also invite representation from other key organisations across sectors to ensure that membership reflects the breadth of the work programme.

Board meetings are held bi monthly and the notes and papers from  previous meetings are available.