Issue - meetings

Tim Rice gave a brief update on the work of the Housing Task and Finish Group. Housing was a complex area of work with a number of challenges.

The governance arrangements needed to be right and it was important that housing authorities at District Council level should be represented at the HWB to ensure the Memorandum of Understanding can be fully implemented and issues such as homelessness were adequately understood.

Future commissioning needs should be considered to ensure effective working between housing, health and social care. There was a huge amount of data available and an information and exchange communication platform was being set up to share ideas.

Board members were keen that the right person be appointed to the Board, that they should just represent housing issues and that the appointment of the co-opted member should be reviewed in 12 months.

It was suggested that more focus should be put on the importance of housing on for care leavers.

RESOLVED that the Health and Well-being Board;

a)     Noted this first interim report; and

b)    Agreed that the governance arrangements should be strengthened and the Memorandum of Understanding should be supported, through inviting a single senior officer representative of the Local Housing Authorities to become a Co-opted member of the HWB for an initial period of 12 months when the appointment would be reviewed.