Wellbeing Strategy
The Assistant Director – Wellbeing & Housing will present the draft Wellbeing Strategy to the Committee.
Recommendation
The meeting is recommended:
1.1 To note the presentation.
Additional documents:
Decision:
Resolved
(1) That the presentation be noted.
Minutes:
The Assistant Director - Wellbeing and Housing gave a presentation outlining the proposed new Wellbeing Strategy for Cherwell for 2023 – 2027.
The Assistant Director - Wellbeing and Housing advised that the council had previously had an ‘active lives’ strategy however the Wellbeing Strategy was broader and looked at the factors that come together to give individual residents or the whole community good wellbeing.
The Strategy focused on areas for improvement where the district compared less favourably to other districts in the county or nationally. These included loneliness, diet and exercise.
The Assistant Director - Wellbeing and Housing confirmed that a public consultation and focus groups would take place after the draft Strategy had been presented to Executive in September.
Following questions from the Committee regarding the ‘happy healthy workplace’ scheme, the Assistant Director - Wellbeing and Housing advised that there had been a similar national scheme for employers, however it had been withdrawn and had not yet been relaunched. The council had decided to run its own equivalent scheme that, if successful, could be used as an example for private employers across the district to follow.
Resolved
(1) That the presentation be noted.