Issue - meetings

To follow.

Libby Blake presented the report on the Disabled Children’s Charter for Health and Wellbeing Boards. The report set out the analysis of the potential risks and benefits for the Board associated with the opportunity to sign up to this Charter. Appendix 2 of the report set out the relevant work the Council was currently doing. The report concluded that it would be beneficial for the Health and Wellbeing Board to sign up to the Charter, and recommended that the Board agree to do so.

·        Cllr Waters confirmed that the service had looked carefully at this issue to ensure that the Board would be signing up to something that it could deliver on, and had concluded that this was the case.

·        It was agreed that the suggestion in the report around listening to disabled children should be flagged up as a specific action to be monitored, to ensure that this point was delivered.

·        In response to a question around whether this issue had been risk-assessed, it was confirmed that this was the purpose of commissioning the report into the potential risks and benefits of signing up to the Charter. The report had concluded that the benefits of signing up outweighed the risks. It was felt that the commitments set out in the Charter were those which the Council would be seeking to make in any event and that the requirements of the Charter were a good match with the service’s existing work programme. In commissioning the report into this matter, there had been particular focus on testing the risks around resourcing, and the Board was assured that the relevant risk assessments had been undertaken in respect of this piece of work.

RESOLVED

i)             That the Board sign the Disabled Children’s Charter for Health and Wellbeing Boards.

ii)            That the Board agree that the Lead Commissioners carry out the further work as identified in Appendix 2.