Agenda item

(1)       Mr Gibbens and Mr Lemon introduced a report which updated the Committee on progress against the eleven recommendations made by the IDeA Peer Review of healthy communities in October 2007.  The report also listed the contributions to public health and wellbeing identified by KCC Directorates. 

(2)       Members asked a number of questions which included the following:

·                  In response to a question on how this KCC compared with other County Councils on these issues, Mr Lemon replied that no other comparative reviews has been produced yet but the initial review team would be coming back in the Autumn to see what progress had been made

·                  It was emphasised by Officers that the Observatory was not an additional body but bought together and focussed information that already existed within the Authority.

·                  Page 215 - Paragraph 2.7 refers to District Councils, voluntary and community groups, it was suggested that Parish/Town Councils were also a useful source of information.

·                  It was confirmed that Healthwatch was not included within this as it was not a mainstream public health activity.  It lay within the Directorate but was not seen as a public health intervention.

(3)       RESOLVED that the progress made since the IDeA Peer Review be noted.