Issue - meetings

Recommendations

The Executive is asked to:

i)       Note the content of the Director of Public Health Annual Report 2022-2023.

ii)      Consider the recommendations made within the report and how these relate to the whole local authority.

Considered – A report of the Director of Public Health introducing the Director of Public Health’s Annual Report 2022-2023: ‘In Our Words: a Child’s Life in North Yorkshire’

Councillor Michael Harrison introduced the report confirming it was the Council’s duty to annually publish an independent report written by the Director of Public Health.

Louise Wallace, Director of Public Health introduced the report which provided an update on the recommendations arising from the previous annual report and focussed on addressing the impact of the pandemic on children and young people across North Yorkshire.

She also drew attention to the two key themes that emerged from the initial work to develop the report i.e. the rapid onset of digitisation, and mental health and wellbeing, and the recommendations arising from the DPHAR 2021-22, ‘Learning from COVID-19’.  She went on to note her thanks to all those who had contributed to the report and highlighted the concerns, issues and opportunities it had identified.

Executive members acknowledged the work of the Public Health team and thanked the Director of Public Health and Dr Gill Kelly for an excellent and easy to read report. 

Cllr Janet Sanderson specific drew attention to the list of acknowledgments within the report recognising the team effort required to pull in such a broad representation through the ongoing partnership work across the county.  She also noted some of the disparities between the statistics across specific areas of the County which she suggested required further consideration.

Resolved – That the following be noted:

i)       The content of the Director of Public Health Annual Report 2022-2023.

ii)      The recommendations made within the report and how they related to the whole local authority.