Issue - meetings

To provide an update on community projects relating to education, health and well-being and to ask Cabinet to endorse those projects.

a)       Cabinet endorses the projects listed above as those which will continue to be delivered in 2017/18 in support of the Council’s Corporate Plan priorities; and

b)       the currently identified health and education related projects are monitored through the Council’s Performance Plan together with future projects agreed with the Portfolio Holder for Leisure and Partnerships.

There was submitted a report by the Portfolio Holder for Leisure and Partnerships (Report A.8), which provided Cabinet with an update on community projects relating to education, health and wellbeing and also requested Cabinet to endorse those projects.

Cabinet was informed that current specific projects in relation to education were formed around the following:-

o      Teacher Recruitment & Retention

·           TeachFirst

·           North Essex Teacher Training (previously Tendring Hundred Primary SCITT – School Centred Initial Teacher Training)

·           Key Worker Housing

o      IntoUniversity

o      Wellbeing Hub pilot – Great Bentley Primary School

o      Memorandum of Understandings with local universities - Anglia Ruskin and Essex University

o      School places

Cabinet was made aware that current specific projects in relation to health and well-being were formed around the following:-

o      Public Health Improvement Coordinator

o      Making Every Contact Count (MECC)

o      Breastfeeding Welcome Scheme

o      Clacton Seafront parkrun

o      livewell branding / livewell Tendring

o      Housing and Health

o      Public Health Officer’s Group (PHOG)

o      Outdoor gym, Cliff Park, Harwich

It was reported that the projects identified above would continue to form the subject of regular updates to the Leisure and Partnerships Portfolio Holder and at Member Briefing Sessions.

Cabinet was reminded that engagement in those areas was supplemented by the work of the Community Leadership and Partnerships Committee which provided overview and scrutiny of those sectors as part of its work programme.

Having considered the information submitted within the report:

It was moved by Councillor McWilliams, seconded by Councillor G V Guglielmi and:

RESOLVED that –

a)    Cabinet endorses the projects listed above as those which will continue to be delivered in 2017/18 in support of the Council’s Corporate Plan priorities; and

b)    the currently identified health and education related projects are monitored through the Council’s Performance Plan together with future projects agreed with the Portfolio Holder for Leisure and Partnerships.