Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Director of Public Health.

The report provides an overview of JSNA (Joint Strategic Needs Assessment) activity in 2023/24 and the proposed work plan for the Stockport JSNA for 2024/25.

The Board is asked to consider and comment on the proposals for the 2024/25 JSNA set out above and approve priorities for the work programme for the year.

Officer contact: Eleanor Banister, 0161 474 2447, or by email at eleanor.banister@stockport.gov.uk

The Director of Public Health submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) which provided an overview of Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) activity in 2023/24 and the proposed work plan for the Stockport JSNA for 2024/25.

The following comments were made/issues raised:

·         The report was considered by the Health & Wellbeing Board on an annual basis, and summarised the work completed over the past year and set out plans for the forthcoming year. The council also had a duty to publish a pharmaceutical needs assessment, which would be published in 2025.

·         The JSNA gave the council and partners a refreshed understanding of the borough’s demographics.

·         The JSNA work had informed the Children and Young People Plan 2024-27, as well as the SEND plan. It was noted that Stockport had higher numbers of children and young people with SEND than the national average and Greater Manchester counterparts.

·         Specific priorities around frailty, inequalities and specialist housing were noted.

RESOLVED – That the proposals for the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2024/25 and priorities for the work programme for the year be approved.