Agenda item

Report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services.

The Board received the report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services providing Members with an overview of key updates to subjects of interest to the Board where a full report is not necessary.

The City of London, LB Hackney and LB Newham agreed to seek a single Director of Public Health (DPH) who would take the lead in the statutory DPH requirements across all three areas. A job description was being developed and discussed with the Faculty of Public Health. Once the senior management team were appointed, further consultation on the lower grade structure would commence. Members were informed that interviews for the role of the Director of Public Health would be taking place in week commencing 4^th March 2013.

The Board were informed that the Public Health team moved to the London Borough of Hackney on the 14th January and were based at the Hackney Service Centre. They were supporting both the LB Hackney and the City of London Corporation and were taking part in induction events at both organisations.

The Chairman Vicky Hobart indicated that the Public Health Senior Management team had expressed concern that the proposed new arrangements for Public Health in Hackney and the City of London would not provide sufficient capacity or professional leadership for the function locally.

Officers informed Members that work was on-going to produce a Health & Wellbeing Board Handbook. Initially, the Handbook will contain documents such as a list of Members, Terms of Reference, Statutory Duties and Responsibilities, Meeting Dates, References to the Key Partners, the Health and Wellbeing Strategy and Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). Discussions with Members would take place as part of the Board development day on the 6^th February 2013.

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