Issue - meetings

·         Report by the Director of Public Health

5.1       The Board considered the 2017/18 Annual Report on the East Sussex Joint Strategic Needs and Assets Assessment (JSNAA).

5.2       In response to questions from the Board about the inclusion of a JSNAA profile of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, the Director of Public Health explained that the Public Health Department would be happy to consider a specific profile for the BAME community in the St Leonard’s division as part of the development of specific profiles in the JSNAA. In adherence to the requirements of the Equalities Act 2010, the needs of all the groups with protected characteristics are currently included in a single place in the JSNAA so that their needs can be assessed against each other and against the population as a whole.

5.3       The Board RESOLVED to:

1) note the report; and

2) recommend that a specific profile of the BAME community is included in future iterations of the JSNAA.