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Following feedback from managers the format of Team Brief has changed. Team Brief items are now identified as 'essential' or 'optional'. Essential items must be delivered as part of Team Brief. Optional items can be included at the manager's discretion based on relevance to the specific team.
The source of the item is also identified in the title - Public Health (PH), Integration & Partnerships (I&P), Adult Social Care (ASC), Children & Young People (C&YP), Provider Services (PS), Education & Skills (E&S), Commissioning (C).
Contents
Why this is in Team Brief:
The Health and Wellbeing Strategy and Joint Public Health Strategy will significantly shape the work of the directorate and the wider Council over the coming years.
Expected outcomes:
Staff are aware of and able to summarise the key themes of the two new strategies.
Briefing information:
The Health and Wellbeing Strategy is a statutory document. The revised strategy, covering the period 2019-2029, was approved by the Health and Wellbeing Board on 18 April.
The strategy identifies four key themes:
- Protecting the health of the population as a whole
- Providing high quality, person centred care
- Improving health and wellbeing through the lifecourse (Starting Well, Living Well, Ageing Well, Dying Well)
- Tackling the wider determinants of health and wellbeing.
The Health and Wellbeing Strategy sets a small number of priorities under each of these themes, and these will be actively monitored and overseen by the Health and Wellbeing Board.
The Joint Public Health Strategy adds more detail to the theme of tackling the wider determinants of health. It has been formally approved by the County Council, all six District Councils and the Lake District National Park Authority.
This strategy lists key aims under five headings:
- Planet: growing our natural assets
- People: nurturing our human assets
- Participation: building social connections
- Place: improving physical assets
- Prosperity: fair and inclusive growth of our financial assets.
The Joint Public Health Strategy will be delivered through the Public Health Alliance working closely with District Council partners to identify actions and next steps.
Resources:
Health and Wellbeing Strategy
Joint Public Health Strategy
Why this is in Team Brief:
Raise awareness of the latest Active Lives survey results, showing the data achieved for Cumbria, and the district areas during the period November 2017 – November 2018
Expected outcomes:
Increased knowledge amongst staff in People of the national and county-wide picture regarding participation rates in physical activity,and also the stark differences across the district areas of Cumbria.
Briefing Information:
The latest results of Active Lives is out and it's a mixed picture again for Cumbria. Whilst figures are on par with the rest of England, there remains to be real inequalities in the levels of physical activity within the districts.
Highlights compared to the previous 12 months results show significant changes in the ‘inactive’ levels:
- Barrow-in-Furness inactive levels have increased by 3.6% to 31.6%, which is 6.5% above the national figure
- Copeland inactive levels have remained similar to 12 months ago at 27.6%, which is 2.3% above the national figure
- Eden inactive levels has been reduced by 2.2% to 21.2%, and is now better than the national figure
- South Lakeland again has the lowest inactive levels at 20.9%, which is similar to the level recorded 12 months ago, and better than the national figure
- Carlisle inactive levels have increased by 6.9% to 28.4% - 3.3% above the national figure
- Allerdale inactive levels increased slightly by 1.9% to 23% - 2.1% better than the national figure
Resources:
More information - joanna.coleman@cumbria.gov.uk
Full results - https://www.activecumbria.org/behealthybeactive/resources/
Why this is in Team Brief:
Raise awareness of the latest information arising from the Active Lives Children and Young People Survey, specifically focussing on young people’s attitudes to physical activity and sport.
Expected outcomes:
Increased knowledge amongst staff in People of the influences which affect young people’s attitudes to being physically active.
Briefing Information:
Active Lives provides comprehensive insight into how children in England are taking part in sport and physical activity both in and out of school drawing on the views of 130,000 children and young people.
A policy briefing has been prepared by Sport England highlighting what’s been learned from the findings. The full report on the Active Lives Children and Young People Survey (with links to the published data) can be found at: http://www.sportengland.org/cypattitudes
The key findings are:
- Physically literate children do twice as much activity. The more of the five elements of physical literacy - enjoyment, confidence, competence, understanding and knowledge - children have, the more active they are.
- Enjoyment is the biggest driver of activity levels. Despite the majority of children (68%) understanding that sport and activity is good for them, understanding had the least impact on activity levels.
- Children who have all five elements of physical literacy report higher levels of happiness, are more trusting of other children, and report higher levels of resilience.
- Physical literacy decreases with age. As children grow older, they report lower levels of enjoyment, confidence, competence, and understanding. Previous research from Sport England shows that activity levels drop when children reach their teenage years.
The results also reveal important inequalities among certain groups of children which must be tackled:
- Girls are less likely to say they enjoy or feel confident about doing sport and physical activity (58% of boys enjoy it, compared to 43% of girls while 47% of boys feel confident, compared to 31% of girls.) In children ages 5-7, boys are more likely to love playing sport, while girls are more likely to love being active.
- Children from the least affluent families are less likely to enjoy activity than those from the most affluent families, and previous research shows they are also far less likely to be active.
- Black children are more physically literate than other ethnic groups – driven by boys, but are less active than the population as a whole.
Resources:
More information - joanna.coleman@cumbria.gov.uk
Full results - https://www.activecumbria.org/behealthybeactive/resources/
Why this is in Team Brief:
Correspondence from MPs in relation to service users is increasing and a co-ordinated response is important.
Expected outcome:
Staff know what action to take if they receive correspondence from an MP.
Briefing information:
The Council has recently reviewed the way in which we manage enquiries from MPs. The aim is to efficiently and appropriately respond to enquiries regarding our services from MPs and their constituents.
In order for the Council to ensure MPs receive a timely response from the most appropriate person we have established a dedicated email address. This should help to centrally co-ordinate responses.
Please can staff direct contact from MPs to the mailbox: mpenquiries@cumbria.gov.uk
Resources:
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Why this is in Team Brief:
The recent Local Area SEND inspection is the first such inspection in the county and it's findings will have a significant impact on the work of the council and partners.
Expected outcomes:
Staff are aware for anticipated publication date and plans for dissemination.
Briefing Information:
We are currently being told by Ofsted/CQC that the SEND Local Area inspection report will be published on 17 May.
All staff will receive a full briefing on the day of publication.
A multi-agency working group has been convened and has begun developing a programme of work based on the verbal feedback provided following the inspection.
Resources:
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Why this is in Team Brief:
The closure will have knock on impacts for the locations of several teams.
Expected outcomes :
To inform relevant staff of the changes.
Briefing Information:
Petteril House is closing with residents being relocated to other residential homes on 7th May.
Reablement Review Officers, Supported Living and Shared Lives staff currently located in Petteril House will be relocating to 3rd Floor Cumbria House in the space currently occupied by the LSCB/Quality Improvement Team; they in turn will be relocating to the space currently occupied by School Admissions team on 2nd Floor Cumbria House, and the School Admissions Team will be moving to first floor, west wing at Park House.
All moves will take place Tuesday 7th May and telephone numbers will remain the same. Thank you to colleagues for their support with the move.
Resources – n/a
Why this is in Team Brief:
To let colleagues know about the Cumbria Safe Places Scheme.
Expected outcomes:
Staff share details of the scheme with vulnerable service users so they know where the safe places are in the event of an incident.
Briefing information:
Safe places is a national project that looks to identify places where people who need assistance at times of distress or confusion can get support from people who are willing to help. The Scheme has been around for some time and we are relaunching it in the light of concerns expressed by people with a learning disability about hate and mate crime.
Simply organisations sign up to be a safe place and put a poster in the window of their organisation, staff are offered brief training on how to respond. People can apply for a safe place card that they can show to people in the safe place. E.g. Cumbria House is a Safe Place.
Resources:
More information, the logo to look out for, and a list of safe places in Cumbria are available at: https://www.cumbria.police.uk/Advice-Centre/Personal-Safety/Safe-Places-Scheme.aspx
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