Issue - meetings

Report of Assistant Director – Wellbeing and Housing

Purpose of report

To present the new Wellbeing strategy for 2024 – 2028 ‘Everybody’s Wellbeing’

Recommendations

The meeting is recommended:

1.1       To approve the new Wellbeing strategy for Cherwell – Everybody’s Wellbeing 2024 – 2028.

Resolved

(1)           That the new Wellbeing Strategy for Cherwell – Everybody’s Wellbeing 2024 – 2028 (Annex to the Minutes as set out in the Minute Book) be approved.

The Assistant Director – Wellbeing and Housing submitted a report to present the new Wellbeing strategy for 2024 – 2028 ‘Everybody’s Wellbeing’.

In introducing the report, the Portfolio Holder for Healthy and Safe Communities commended the Wellbeing Team for their excellent work on the Strategy.

On behalf of Executive, the Chairman thanked the Wellbeing Team for their work on wellbeing across the district. Cherwell District Council was a frontrunner with an excellent track record of delivering a range of programmes and facilities to meet its objective of developing healthy, resilient and engaged communities. The “Everybody’s Wellbeing” strategy was ambitious and would ensure the council remained a frontrunner in this area.

The Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, which had reviewed the draft strategy, reported that the Committee had praised the Wellbeing Team for their ongoing hard work across the district.

Resolved

(1)          That the new Wellbeing Strategy for Cherwell – Everybody’s Wellbeing 2024 – 2028 (Annex to the Minutes as set out in the Minute Book) be approved.

Reasons

The strategy has been developed through insight and consultation. It celebrates the achievements Cherwell District Council has made so far and pushes delivery against 7 goals that will be measured and monitored to capture impact, allowing members to broadly consider the social return on Investment.

Alternative options

Option 1: To rely on system strategies and seek to implement them locally. 

This was rejected. An option to pursue our own strategy would be based on more detailed local knowledge and circumstance and allow us to reflect the levels of deprivation, rurality and housing growth across the district better.

The local place-based approach Everybody’s Wellbeing captures, is in step with broader Health and Wellbeing strategies but the refinement presented by a district strategy encourages better interaction with Town and Parish Councils and the strong, vibrant relationships the District has with voluntary and community sector locally.