Information for Providers

 

Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper Consultation

Central Government has launched a consultation on the new approaches it should consider around reform of the health and disability benefits system and employment support. 

The Consultation can be found here - Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper - GOV.UK

An Easy Read Guide has been produced by United Response to support the consultation - EasyRead: government changes to PIP and other disability benefits - United Response

The consultation plans to close on the 30 June 2025. 

Please can you share within your organisations and with people you support to make them aware as it could affect them in the near future depending on the decisions made. 

Exercise Solaris - Wednesday 30th July 2025

We would like to invite you to exercise Solaris taking place on 30th July from1-4pm at Little Stoke Community Centre. The exercise will be reviewing how prepared Care Homes and Adult Social Care Settings are for pandemic flu in relation to their business continuity plans. This will be a great opportunity to go through some scenarios, reflect on your current business continuity plans and give you tools to review them for future preparedness.

Please use this link to secure your space https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exercise-solaris-for-care-home-adult-social-care-businesses-tickets-1389026257929?aff=oddtdtcreator

New South Gloucestershire Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2025-29

We are pleased to advise that the South Gloucestershire Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy for 2025-29 is now available on the council website: South Gloucestershire Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2025-29

The strategy sets out a shared vision for the Health and Wellbeing Board for 2025-2029:

Vision for South Gloucestershire residents: South Gloucestershire is a healthy and inclusive place, where current and future generations feel safe, supported and empowered to lead healthy lives. 

Vision for the South Gloucestershire health and care system and partners: The Health and Wellbeing Board, its partners and local communities will work closer together to reduce inequalities and hold ourselves to account on our commitments to create a healthier and more inclusive place for all. 

To deliver these visions, there are five strategic commitments about how the Health and Wellbeing Board can use its unique role and membership to lead and advocate for health and wellbeing locally and develop ways of working.  These are:  

  • Strengthening community involvement

  • Building a programme of place-based working

  • Doing more to reduce inequalities

  • Shifting upstream with a focus on prevention

  • Strengthening our use of data & insights in decision making

Attention to these five areas is not new.  What is different about this strategy is:

  • We have agreed focused actions to progress each of our five commitments.

  • A refreshed accountability process has been developed to ensure we hold ourselves to account.

  • Each year the Health and Wellbeing Board will produce an action plan setting out up to four Annual Focus Areas for the year ahead.  These areas for collective action will be an opportunity to drive forward best practice with local partners and to deliver on strategy commitments.

The areas of focus for year 1 (2025-26) are:

  • Place-based working and Neighbourhood Health – work as a Board to develop a shared vision for place-based working and Neighbourhood Health in South Gloucestershire and support actions to implement this.

  • Healthy Weight – sign up to the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ‘Why Weight?’ Healthy weight pledge and support actions to implement it across South Gloucestershire

  • Housing and Wellbeing – work as a Board to develop a Housing and Wellbeing Strategy for South Gloucestershire and support actions to implement this.

  • Children and Young People – work with partners to develop our integrated local approach for maternity and early years to support families and carers before and during pregnancy and with children up to the age of 5 years.

If you have any queries or would like further information, please do not hesitate to email me: claire.rees@southglos.gov.uk.

 
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