Improving health and wellbeing
Improving health and wellbeingPromoting prevention, collaboration and active lifestyles to improve health and wellbeing for everyone in Cumberland
Every aspect of life - education, childcare, housing, employment, lifestyle, the quality of the local environment, and the type of community we live in - can affect our health and wellbeing at any point through our lives. We see this through stark health inequalities in Cumberland where our different communities can have very different outcomes. Overall the health of people in Cumberland is generally worse than the national average with higher than national average rates of deaths from of those aged under 75 from preventable causes, as well as high rates of suicide, particularly in males. Smoking remains a stubborn problem in some places along with other addictions. We have an ageing population (with a growing proportion of residents aged 65+) and higher than national average rates of people with a lifelong limiting condition. At the other end of the life course, we have higher than the England average rates of obesity in children when they start school.
We have placed improving health and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do. We recognise how fundamental health and wellbeing are to everyone’s lives and life chances and want to ensure that:
- our children benefit from the best possible start in life
- our residents can live independently, age well and die well
- underlying causes of health inequalities and the wider determinants of health and wellbeing are addressed and prioritised
- regardless of age our residents lead healthy lifestyles with access to quality leisure provision and green spaces
Outcome measures
Successful delivery of the activities set out will help us make progress towards achieving our long-term aims for improving health and wellbeing in Cumberland. Alongside these activities we will track a number of outcome measures over the life cycle of the Council Plan to help us assess the impact that our work in partnership with others is having. We want to see:
- improving trends in healthy life expectancy and reductions in inequalities in healthy life expectancy
- a reduction in the percentage of children who are overweight at Year 6
- an increase in the percentage of physically active adults and children
- reducing trends in preventable deaths, in particular suicide and drug related deaths
- improvements in educational attainment and progress
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Key activity |
Target timescales |
Lead roles |
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Develop Cumberland Multi-Agency Family Wellbeing Partnership to address Early Help and Prevention and partnership Family Wellbeing Plan |
April 2024
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Director of Children and Family Wellbeing Portfolio Holder for Children, Family Wellbeing and Housing |
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Establish Early Help Service and develop EH Strategy |
March 2024 |
Director of Children and Family Wellbeing Portfolio Holder for Children, Family Wellbeing and Housing
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Produce Cared for Children Strategy Delivery Plan |
February 2024 |
Director of Children and Family Wellbeing Portfolio Holder for Children, Family Wellbeing and Housing
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Open Family Hub in Whitehaven and deliver national Family Hub pilot across Cumberland |
April 2024 |
Director of Children and Family Wellbeing Portfolio Holder for Children, Family Wellbeing and Housing |
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Delivery of Transformation Programme on Family Wellbeing (including a programme to review model of delivery of 0-19 Healthy Child programme (HCP) and the Child and Family Support Service (CFSS)
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March 2025 |
Director of Children and Family Wellbeing and Director of Public Health and Communities Portfolio Holders for: Children, Family Wellbeing and Housing; Adults and Community Health |
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Work with anchor institutions to support and fund programmes that support Family Wellbeing and the aim of ‘Giving every child the best start in life’. |
April 2025 |
Director of Children and Family Wellbeing and Assistant Chief Executive Portfolio Holder for Children, Family Wellbeing and Housing |
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Implement a programme to embed health and wellbeing thinking throughout council policy and practice |
March 2025 |
Director of Public Health and Communities Portfolio Holder for Adults and Community Health |
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Develop a population health approach as part of the Workington Health and Care Integration pilot |
March 2024 |
Director of Public Health and Communities Portfolio Holder for Adults and Community Health |
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Further develop and integrate Social Prescribing services across Cumberland |
March 2024 |
Director of Public Health and Communities Portfolio Holder for Adults and Community Health |
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Continue to deliver the Live Longer Better in Cumbria Programme |
March 2025 |
Director of Public Health and Communities Portfolio Holder for Adults and Community Health |
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Improve the reablement offer across hospital and community pathways |
June 2025 |
Director of Adult Social Care and Housing Portfolio Holder for Adults and Community Health |
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Put in place a harmonised, consistent Cumberland-wide Disabled Facilities Grant offer |
March 2025 |
Director of Adult Social Care and Housing Portfolio Holder for Adults and Community Health |
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Improve drug and alcohol preventative activities through:
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March 2024 |
Director of Public Health and Communities Portfolio Holder for Adults and Community Health |
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Tackle smoking addictions through:
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Sept 2024 |
Director of Public Health and Communities Portfolio Holder for Adults and Community Health |
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Recommission the GP and Pharmacy Outcomes Framework |
March 2024 |
Director of Public Health and Communities Portfolio Holder for Adults and Community Health |
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Recommission sexual health services |
Sept 2024 |
Director of Public Health and Communities Portfolio Holder for Adults and Community Health |
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Develop a strategic action plan for suicide prevention |
Sept 2024 |
Director of Public Health and Communities Portfolio Holder for Adults and Community Health |
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Develop a strategic action plan for mental health |
Dec 2024 |
Director of Public Health and Communities Portfolio Holder for Adults and Community Health |
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Develop a strategic partnership plan for Community Safety |
March 2024 |
Director of Public Health and Communities Portfolio Holder for Sustainable, Resilient and Connected Places |
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Develop an Active Wellbeing Strategy and service delivery approach to transition from existing traditional leisure service provision. |
March 2024 |
Director of Place, Sustainable growth and Transport and Director of Public Health and Communities Portfolio Holder for Vibrant and Healthy Places |
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Continued implementation of the Active Cumbria 5 Year plan to address inactivity and to improve participation levels for children and young people and adults. |
March 2025 |
Director of Public Health and Communities Portfolio Holder for Adults and Community Health |
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Develop an Adult Social Care Plan which includes a focus on promoting healthy lifestyles such as access to leisure, learning and employment opportunities |
March 2025 |
Director of Adult Social Care and Housing Portfolio Holder for Adults and Community Health |