Issue - meetings

The Cabinet is requested to consider the agenda report and its appendix in the agenda supplement and to make the following resolution:

That preferred option 1, detailed in the Project Initiation Document in the appendix to the agenda report, that Chichester District Council hosts the Social Prescribing service be approved.

RESOLVED

That preferred option 1, detailed in the Project Initiation Document in the appendix to the agenda report, that Chichester District Council hosts the Social Prescribing service be approved.

The Cabinet considered the agenda report and its appendix in the agenda supplement.

This item was introduced by Mrs Lintill.

Mrs Thomas and Mr Brightmore were in attendance for this matter.

Mrs Lintill referred to the Cabinet’s approval on 9 January 2018 of the initial project proposal document for the Social Prescribing (SP) pilot scheme as summarised in section 3 of the report. She drew attention to the table of the project costs in section 7 of the appendix. The preferred option was for CDC to host this project; the alternatives and the reasons for discounting them were listed in section 6 of the report. SP was being actively and increasingly embraced by local authorities. In order to illustrate the objectives and outcomes of SP, she cited a real-life case, which was an extreme example of the sort of person who could be assisted by this project to be rehabilitated and become self-reliant. This really exciting pilot project would be overseen by a steering group and would be subject to careful monitoring and review.

Mrs Thomas and Mr Brightmore did not add to Mrs Lintill’s introduction.

On behalf of the Cabinet Mr Dignum strongly commended the SP project and pointed out the involvement of other organisations working in partnership with CDC.  

Decision

The Cabinet voted unanimously on a show of hands to make the resolution set out below. 

RESOLVED

That preferred option 1, detailed in the Project Initiation Document in the appendix to the agenda report, that Chichester District Council hosts the Social Prescribing service, be approved.