O&S.62/21
Following the Council’s adoption of the Better Lives for
All Strategy in September 2021, the Committee was provided with an
update on the Community Wellbeing strand of the Better Lives for
All Strategy.
Each project, outlined in Appendix A of the attendant report,
was then reviewed in turn:
CW1.1: This item was rated as
‘amber’, ie off track but
plan in place. The officer outlined
that the rating was due to the project’s initial stage having
been very successful as they had sought to engage with a number of
potential partners, these included, but was not limited to, Devon
County Council, NHS, voluntary sector, and the Police. Other statutory partners had shown a very positive
wish to be involved and to ensure a joined up approach to issues of
rural poverty. Therefore initial
conversations were on-going, hence resulting in the amber
rating. It was noted the importance of
listening to communities and identifying what support the
communities themselves identified.
Following discussions, it was requested that Ward Members were
involved at the earliest opportunity.
It was noted that this was an ambitious and daunting project, and
that the Council would not be able to resolve all issues, but a
framework would ultimately be put in place to encourage
community/partnership working. This
would be run as a pilot project initially.
It
was then:
RESOLVED
That the Overview and Scrutiny Committee WELCOMED this initiative but NOTED it was
ambitious and the importance of local Ward Members being involved
at the earliest opportunity was recognised.
CW1.2: Following the update on this action, the
Executive Lead Member updated that Dartmouth Town Council was
exploring the possibility of building key worker properties on the
site of the old hospital to ensure that the new Health Hub had
sufficient staffing resources.
It
was then:
RESOLVED
That the Overview and Scrutiny Committee NOTED this action.
CW1.3: It was confirmed that Members would like to receive
qualitative histories of Disabled Facilities Grants at this
juncture of future reports. The budget
allocation from Devon County Council for 2021/22 was
£1,196,498.
It
was then:
RESOLVED
That the Overview and Scrutiny Committee NOTED this action and thanked the officers for achieving a
good performance alongside the astute negotiations, and that the
Committee would welcome examples of good practice to be included in
subsequent updates.
CW1.4: This item had been covered
above (minute O&S.61/21 refers).
CW1.5: Officers wished to clarify
what information Members of the Committee would like to receive in
future updates. It was reiterated that
monies available through Section 106 agreements was reported
regularly to the Executive and local Ward Members were reminded to
review this to see what monies were available to be used, and
consult with the local Parish/Town Council to see where the monies
could be best spent. It was reiterated
that South Hams District Council were the administrators of the
money but Parish and Town Councils were able to pull down the S106
monies.
It
was proposed that, in respect of CW1.5, there be ...
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