Issue - meetings

Annual report of the Acting Director of Public Health

18.1     The Board considered a report by the Acting Director of Public Health outlining the Annual Report of the Director of Public Health 2015-16, called Strengthening Personal Resilience in East Sussex. The Board was also provided with a printed copy of the Annual Report.

18.2     It was pointed out that a robust community and voluntary sector (CVS) was vital to strengthening personal resilience in East Sussex; however, it was becoming more difficult to support the CVS via the direct funding of service provision in the current financial climate. The East Sussex Better Together (ESBT) programme includes a workstream looking at community resilience. The ESBT programme board has agreed with representatives of the CVS, through regular liaison meetings, that it will strengthen CVS engagement in the ESBT programme in order to find the best ways to deliver the objectives of the workstream in the current environment of diminishing resources.

18.3     The Board RESOLVED to note the report.