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Following consideration of the
officer report and discussion, the Executive agreed to note and
endorse the following recommendations:
 
1.          To
maximise opportunities to join up and integrate commissioning and
delivery of supported housing and support services to better serve
people with multiple complex needs.
 
2.         To
ensure the new Local Plans give significant attention to current
and future demographic trends and the related housing
needs.  Innovate solutions to the
development of more one and two-bedroom homes, affordable homes,
housing stability and homes built to accommodate future health
needs are required.
 
3.         That the
Council and Integrated Care Board prioritise collaborative work to
address the needs of people who experience multiple
disadvantage.
 
4.         To
recommended that the Integrated Care Board continues to develop the
Inclusion Health Service and develops an overarching Somerset
Inclusive Health Strategy.
 
5.         To
recommended that Somerset Integrated Care System adopt a
collaborative approach to reducing injuries and falls overall and
in the home, including continuing to provide support for retrofit
interventions and housing adaptations that enable people to live
safely in their homes.
 
6.         To
maintain support for approaches such as Personalised Care that seek
to wrap individualised support around a person in their current
place of residence to reduce the risk of needs
escalating.
 
7.         That a
communications plan is developed to raise awareness among the
public of the need to plan ahead for ageing in their home or moving
to a more suitable home when the time is right, to reduce the
number of people in homes in Somerset that are difficult to live in
into old age.
 
8.         That the
council commits to, and supports, the development of the Public
Health Ambassador Programme.
 
9.         That the
Council embeds the Health Determinants Research Collaborative and
its principles into the new Target Operating Model for the Council
going forwards.
 
10.      
That Somerset Council adopts a strong “health in all
policies” approach to Neighbourhood Plans, the new Local
Plans and Transport Plans, embedding consideration of local health
needs when developing and implementing the plans, and seeking to
design neighbourhoods that improve health, support community
resilience and reduce the risks and impact of climate
change.