Issue - items at meetings - Chair's Communications

3.1             Cllr Rufus welcomed members to the newly constituted Health & Wellbeing Overview & Scrutiny Committee (HWOSC), in particular the co-optees from the LINk, The Older People’s Council and the Youth Council, Parent Governors and the Diecesan representatives.

3.2       The Chair also thanked Mr Robert Brown, who recently stood down as LINk co-optee on HOSC, for all the contributions he had made to the work of the committee, and wished him well in his new role as a member of the local Shadow Health & Wellbeing Board.

Status of the Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board

2.1       The Chair informed members that the Shadow Board will become a statutory Health and Wellbeing Board in April 2013.  In order to ensure that the Board was operates effectively, it will be run in a shadow form during 2012/13.  The membership of the Board was unusual in that it included councillors and officers.  Legislation states that there should be a minimum of one councillor, three statutory directors (Adult Social Services, Children’s Services and Public Health), a representative of each local Clinical Commissioning Group and a Health Watch representative.  In addition there was some flexibility given to each council to decide on the precise composition of the Board.  The Shadow Board had therefore appointed a member of the Youth Council.  

2.2       The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting and also welcomed the Chair of the Local Safeguarding Children Board and staff from the Community and Voluntary Sector Forum who were in attendance to observe the meeting.