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In responding to the recommendations within
the minutes of the Community Leadership Overview and Scrutiny
Meeting on 23 September 2025 I propose to take the following action
in respect of the Committee's lettered recommendations:-
I will ask officers to:
a)write to the Integrated Care Board identifying the link between
coastal communities and poor mental health for them to help seek to
address this.
b)highlight to the Committee what the Council is doing to seek to
address poor mental health through its Health and Wellbeing
Strategy including the interventions to address poor mental health
and its drivers; and
c)provide an update to the Committee about the actions that are
being taken by the Council to help improve aspiration.

Reasons for the decision

To respond to the recommendations of the
Community Leadership Overview and Scrutiny meeting held on 23
September 2025 which identified how poor mental health and
particularly in young people is exacerbated in coastal deprived
communities compared to similarly deprived communities
inland.
To provide the Committee with an update of what actions are being
taken in line with the Council’s Health and Wellbeing
Strategy to help deliver interventions to support improvements in
mental health and the work being undertaken to support aspiration
in young people. No actions are listed in relation to comments from
the Committee in relation developing a long term strategy to
increase diagnosis of mental health or create local targets as
neither of these are the responsibility of the Council.

Alternative options considered

To reject the Committee’s
recommendations but I did not follow that option because of the
importance of maintaining a focus on poor mental health including
in our coastal communities.