Purpose

Proposed decision

 
That
the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health approve
the adoption and implementation of the Perinatal Mental Health and
Parent Infant Relationships Strategy.
 
Reason
 
The requirement from
the Department of Education (DfE) is to ‘establish a local
perinatal and parent–infant mental health strategy (with
sustainable plans beyond the funding period), to support strategic
planning / delivery and joined-up working across the whole
system.’
 

Background

 
The
requirement to develop a co-created Perinatal mental health and
parent infant relationships strategy has provided opportunity to
bring stakeholders together from across the system, to raise
awareness of perinatal mental health, parent infant relationships
and identify where there are gaps in knowledge and in
support.  The strategy has been made
available for public consultation for a period of eight weeks
February – April 2024.
 
How
the proposed decision supports the Council’s Strategy
2022-26
 
This
service contributes to ‘Priority 1: Levelling up Kent’
of the Framing Kent’s Future Our Council Strategy 2022-2026
as providing parents/mums the support in giving their babies the
best start in life to improve the population’s health and
narrowing health inequalities. 

 

Securing Kent’s future

 
The
proposed decision aligns with Objective 3 of Securing Kent’s
Future:Policy choices and scope of Council’s
ambitions

 

 

 
 

Decision

As Cabinet Member
for Adult Social Care and Public Health, I agree to:
 

a)   
APPROVE the adoption of the co-created strategy in regard to low to moderate Perinatal Mental Health
and Parent Infant Relationships as detailed in the report and

b)   
DELEGATE authority to
the Director of Public Health, to take other necessary actions,
including but not limited to allocating resources, expenditure, and
entering into contracts and other legal agreements, as required to
implement the decision.