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This report sets out the Council’s intended health and wellbeing strategy for 2025-2028.

Following consideration, the Committee unanimously resolved to:

(1)          Approve the draft Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2025-2028 as set out at Appendix 1 of the report.

(2)          Agree to the draft Strategy being taken to Public Consultation for a period of 6-weeks after the Committee meeting.

The Committee received a report setting out the Council’s intended health and wellbeing strategy for 2025-2028.

The Committee considered the following matters:

a)            Children’s Engagement in Daily Activity. A Member enquired as to whether the statistic stating that over 50% of children do not take part in the recommended minimum of an hour’s physical activity per day was in respect of time outside of school, i.e. evenings and weekends, or time including school hours. The Community Development Manager stated she understood that the statistic was in respect of time including school hours.

b)            Partnerships. The Committee considered the importance of building relationships with organisations such as the Integrated Care Partnership and Epsom Primary Care Network as the Council moved towards becoming part of a future unitary authority.

c)            Wording Amendment. The Committee considered that the sentence towards the end of the strategy, ‘We shall also, in line with our responsibilities to our veterans…’, could be reworded to replace ‘veterans’ with ‘Armed Forces community’.

Following consideration, the Committee unanimously resolved to:

(1)          Approve the draft Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2025-2028 as set out at Appendix 1 of the report.

(2)          Agree to the draft Strategy being taken to Public Consultation for a period of 6-weeks after the Committee meeting.