Agenda item

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

Members were provided with an overview of local developments related to the work of the Board on the following areas:

· Safer City Partnership Update

· Active Travel Update

· Square Mile Health Update

· Liaison and Diversion Service

· Mayor’s Vision for Cycling- Quietways update

· Health and Wellbeing advisory group

· Bags of Taste

· Report to Audit and Risk Management Committee on Air Quality

· Sexual Health update

Members noted that a Board Development Day had been scheduled to take place on 26 October in Guildhall. The day would include a session on reviewing the Joint Health & Wellbeing Strategy; a draft strategy would be submitted to the Health and Wellbeing Board meeting in November.

Members also noted that following the successful poster campaign encouraging smokefree playgrounds around the City, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health had requested to use the City’s campaign as a case study on World Environmental Health Day which could be documented by BBC News. A Member queried whether this campaign could include other pockets of open space across the City however, officers advised that was currently not possible due to a number of enforcement issues.

Resolved – that the update report be noted.