Agenda item - Living Well Project Update

8.1       Joel Caines and Charlotte Overton-Hart gave an update on the Living Well Project. The Chair felt that the project showed it was possible to deliver better services for less money.

8.2       Councillor Barford was very pleased with this service and asked for the team to be thanked. She noted that members all recognised how important and challenging this issue was.

8.3       Denise D’Souza stressed that it was vital for the service to identify what is important to people. This was a collaborative project with the community and voluntary sector as well as communities themselves.

8.4       Councillor Page expressed his hope that the funding for this project be extended and expanded.

8.5       Both Councillor Norman and Councillor Penn congratulated the project and the positive co-working with the Fire Authority.

8.6       Pennie Ford welcomed the project’s focus on personal priorities and hoped that other projects would build on the work done with the Fire Authority. Denise D’Souza explained that local authorities and fire authorities were working together and spreading best practice across the South-East, co-ordinated by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS).

8.7       Joel Caine hoped that the learning from this could be used to inform other modernisation programmes, praised the Fire Service including the fire advice and help they offer through their website.

8.8       RESOLVED: That the Board agrees that opportunities through the Better Care plan are explored to mainstream the Living Well Project to enable more people to be supported.