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Great Yarmouth Borough Council Locality Strategy (improvinglivesnw.org.uk)

    Chair: Councillor Jo Rust (Portfolio Holder for People and Communities)

Vice Chair: Mark Whitmore (Assistant Director – Health, Wellbeing & Public Protection)

• Health and Wellbeing Strategy
• Contact email addresses: mark.whitmore@west-norfolk.gov.uk  sarah.dennis@west-norfolk.gov.uk.

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Councillor Beth Jones

• Chair: Councillor Beth Jones (Deputy Leader of the Council)
• Vic Chair:  Helen Chamberlin – (Head of Strategy, Engagement and Culture)
• Norwich Health and Wellbeing Strategy

2022/23

For the period 2022/23, the aim of which is to facilitate the start-up of the H&WP and to address the impact of Covid-19 in the Norwich ‘place’. There were three evidence based overarching priorities agreed by the partnership for covid recovery in Norwich: 

• Health Inequalities
• Mental Health
• Domestic Abuse 

The following projects were funded and I have highlighted the projects still running through other funding or funding from 24/25etc

Project: All to Play For Lead delivery partner Active Norfolk has built a partnership with Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) and sports delivery organisations to identify, structure, and implement a physical activity intervention to address local need of improving men’s mental health through a preventative and non-clinical approach. (project still running through continued funding outlined below)

Project: Power to Change Programme. Lead delivery partner: Leeway Domestic Violence & Abuse Service: The community-based Power to Change programme is a six-week programme for female survivors (16+) of domestic abuse and coercive control. The sessions delivered empower survivors to be able to understand the patterns of controlling and coercive behaviours, identify how this may have impacted on them, how to move on with their lives, understand the impact on children and young people, identify the behaviours in future relationships and to live free from abuse.

Project: Safe Habitable Homes (self-neglect and hoarding)Lead delivery partners: Norwich CC, N&W ICB: The Safe Habitable Homes project will be an extension of the existing INTERACT (Integrated Anticipatory Care Team) service. INTERACT is a multi-agency service which was established to tackle housing issues that are negatively affecting health and wellbeing.  It is preventative and supports individuals to remain independent in their homes and reduce their risk of needing input from health, social care or other support services and to prevent the possibility of formal eviction proceedings. Due to the high number of referrals into the INTERACT service for individuals living with complex self-neglect and/or hoarding challenges, the Safe Habitable Homes project has been established to provide additional support specifically to meet the needs of this client group. (project still running)

Project: Norwich Health Justice Partnership. Lead delivery partner: NCAN: The Norwich Health Justice Partnership (NHJP) consists of an established collaboration between accredited advice providers working in the voluntary sector and embedded within Norwich communities. These partners currently deliver a collaborative Financial Inclusion consortium (FIC) for Norwich City Council that works to ensure Norwich communities can access timely, free, accredited advice around financial and social welfare issues – mainly welfare benefits, debt and housing (in recognition that these issues are usually complex and clustered) through a ‘no wrong door’ approach. 

Project: Community Connectors. Lead delivery partners: Norwich CC and Shoebox. A Community Connector Co-ordinator and Six Community Connectors employed by Shoebox Community Hub to have conversations in the community about what’s important to them.  Insights gathered will be recorded on a (already established) conversations database. This includes information on assumed demographics, topics mentioned including health, vaccines, mental health as well as more community focused topics such as family or community projects. The Connectors can undertake light touch signposting but will initially focus on community solutions rather than directing people straight into services. Target areas are Mile Cross, City Centre and surrounds, and North /West Earlham. These are all designated Reducing Inequalities Target Areas (RITAs). . (work/ project still running)

Highlights for 23/24

• Projects from CRF 22/23 set up/ operational and some still running through to end of 23/ beginning of 24 through other funding or continued funding from partnership.
• Partnership published the strategy. In consultation with communities the partnership researched key priorities and developed them into a full action plan for 23/24 and beyond. Including the endorsement of the 23/24 projects to include spend.
• Partnership appointed a coordinator. First newsletter published and distributed on Dec 2023
• INTERACT won ‘Social Prescribing Wider Determinants Collaboration of the Year’ the recent Norfolk & Waveney Integrated Care System Social Prescribing Conference. INTERACT is a multidisciplinary project involving Norwich City Council, Age UK, Norfolk Citizens Advice, Voluntary Norfolk, One Norwich Practices and an Integrated Care Coordinator from Norfolk County Council. 
• In response  to the reports of rickets in West Earlham and in line with our food equity priority an initial meeting was set up with infanct school in West Earham to establish what could be done to help the families within the school that may need extra support.Following that meeting, it was agreed that the Wellness on Wheels bus would be used to visit the school to provide direct help. Norwich is working collaboratively with children’s services, primary care and all other relevant agencies to deliver a coordinated response so that the school is not overwhelmed with multiple approaches. If the visit proves successful for families, other schools in the RITA neighbourhoods will be contacted to see if they would be interested in a similar intervention.

Projects that have been funded for 23/24 spend are detailed below.

Contact email address:  bethwall@norwich.gov.uk