Issue - meetings

To confirm the minutes of the Health and Wellbeing Board meeting of 8 February 2024 as a correct record and note any outstanding actions.

Sue Poole, Healthwatch gave an update on action taken since the previous meeting following the joint Parent/Carer Forum (PCF) and Healthwatch presentation on emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA):

1.  Val Scrase had contacted the PCF to offer assistance in getting health input at the LA led EBSA Steering Group.

2.  PCF were now signposting and advising parents to contact the School Nurse with their EBSA concerns rather than their GP.

3.  PCF had taken EBSA training into more schools and had also trained 25 members of Children’s social services (disability team)

4.  Feedback from teachers following EBSA training was that it would make a positive difference in how they responded to EBSA and also that schools /social services were now signposting parents to the PCF

5.  PCF now had 750 members having grown significantly since the work on EBSA was initiated 12+ months ago.

6.  PCF and Healthwatch proposed to undertake a follow up to the 2023 research in 12-18 months’ time to give time for the changes initiated as a result to embed. 

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of 8 February 2024 be approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.