Local Government Association

• The Cheshire and Merseyside Public Health Collaborative has been working on suicide prevention for more than a decade
• The LGA has provided support over two phases, helping the collaborative to re-shape its approach to the issue
• Lead Director of Public Health says help has given the collaborative ‘brain space’ to reflect and adapt

• LGA experts worked with the Isle of Wight Health and Wellbeing Board over a three-month period
• One-to-one interviews and workshops were held covering how the board worked, neighbourhood health and working with communities
• Director of public health reports the support helped ‘lift the gaze’ of the board as it entered a crucial new phase

• Director of Public Health requested LGA to support efforts to re-develop the health and wellbeing board after it had ‘drifted to the margins’
• A three-week intensive round of one-to-one interviews with board members and a workshop helped to pave the way for an overhaul
• Plans now being put in place to take board meetings out into community settings, refresh the membership and set up key priority workstreams

• LGA experts were brought in to review how health and wellbeing board was operating
• Board has now been overhauled with a streamlined set of priorities
• Meetings have been taken on the road in a bid to engage community

A group of organisations set out the importance of recognising the role social care plays at every level of society ahead of the 2024 General Election.

Feedback report: 5-7 March 2024

LGA Roundtable Discussion Derbyshire County Council EV Infrastructure John Kinderman, Principal Climate Change Officer, Derbyshire County Council

The focus was on promoting the shift from petrol and diesel vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs), emphasising the need for a substantial increase in EV