The Solihull Health & Wellbeing Board is scheduled to meet on Tuesday 30 September 2025. The agenda includes a spotlight session on improving the health and wellbeing of young people by addressing unemployment, a progress report from the Solihull Place Committee, and routine updates on the Ageing Well Dashboard, Better Care Fund, and the Board's work plan. The meeting will also include a verbal update on changes at the Integrated Care Board¹ (ICB).

Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Young People

A spotlight session is scheduled to focus on actions to address unemployment, particularly among young people in the borough. The report pack includes a report from Neeraj Malhotra, Deputy Director for Public Health, and Natalie Goulding, Head of Employment and Skills, SMBC, which notes that tackling youth employment and economic activity is a critical part of supporting the economic and inclusive growth of the borough.

The Health and Wellbeing Board is asked to:

• Note the data around unemployment, economic activity and those Not in Education, Employment or Training² (NEETs).
• Note the progress made to join up employment and health related activity.
• Consider how board members can support integration of employment support into health settings.
• Request an update from the Employment and Skills Team and health partners in 12 months' time.

The report pack highlights that Solihull has a strong labour market with above average employment and low levels of unemployment, but also notes that rates of 18-24 claimant unemployment remain relatively high.

The report pack also notes some current projects which address health and employment, and introduces WorkWell, a joint work and health pilot led by the ICB.

The report pack asks the board to consider how they can lead by example in Inclusive Recruitment, and use business networks to encourage other organisations to do the same.

Solihull Place Committee Progress

The Health and Wellbeing Board is scheduled to receive an update on the future of the Solihull Place Committee, as outlined in the Solihull Place Committee Progress Report. The Solihull Place Committee was established in late 2022 as a formal sub-committee of the ICB, to ensure that health and care was integrated and meeting the needs of local communities.

The report pack notes that with the publication of the new 10-year health plan, the shift towards a more strategic commissioning role for the ICB, and the strengthening role of the Collaboratives, it was agreed that a reset of arrangements was needed.

The report pack outlines a number of achievements of the Solihull's Place Committee over the last 2 years, including:

• Building on the previous Solihull Together partnership
• Leading the development of a Place Commissioning Group
• Overseeing the delivery of Solihull's Fairer Futures Fund
• Overseeing the development of the Solihull Outcomes Framework
• Enabling joint work at local level to support the development of the Community Care Collaborative/ Locality Partnership and the Mental Health Collaborative at 'place'
• Enhancing the role of the VCFSE sectors³

The report pack notes that the BSOL and Black Country ICB cluster will focus on strategic commissioning across a larger footprint, and that the 10 Year Health Plan outlines 3 radical shifts, from hospital to community, analogue to digital and sickness to prevention.

The report pack also notes that there is a need to further streamline governance at local level including the Health and Wellbeing Board and other boards which are overseeing Place Committee priorities.

The report pack outlines that a new Joint Commissioning Board will be led by the local authority and accountable to the HWBB and through ICB and SMBC internal governance.

The report pack notes that Solihull's Place Committee endorsed proposals to stand down the current Place Committee, implement a revised Place Joint Commissioning Board and put in place a biannual partnership conference.

Ageing Well Dashboard

The Health and Wellbeing Board is scheduled to receive the latest version of the Solihull Ageing Well Dashboard for information. The dashboard contains a number of metrics, including:

• Outcomes from Early Response Service (ERS) - % of people admitted to hospital
• Percentage of 2 hour Urgent Community Response (UCR) referrals seen within the month
• Total referrals to UCR service
• Emergency admissions to hospital for people aged 65+ per 100,000 population
• Proportion of adult patients discharged from acute hospitals on their discharge ready date
• For those adult patients not discharged on DRD, average number of days from DRD to discharge
• Number of emergency hospital admissions due to falls in people aged 65 and over
• Number of citizens newly diagnosed with dementia - Primary Care Dementia Data (PCDD)
• Number of patients registered with a Learning Disability who have received an annual health check
• Percentage of patients aged 65+ years discharged down the D2A pathways⁴
• % of people readmitted to hospital from Pathway 2 (P2)
• % of people discharged home from Pathway 2 (P2)
• Long-term support needs of older people (aged 65 and over) met by admission to residential and nursing care homes, per 100,000 population
• % of people discharged to 'no long-term care' from Pathway 1 (P1)

Better Care Fund

The Health and Wellbeing Board is scheduled to receive the Better Care Fund 2025/26 Quarter 1 Return for information. The report pack includes a report from Jenny Wood, Director of Adult Social Care and Deputy Chief Executive, and Paul Athey, Chief Finance Officer, Birmingham and Solihull ICB, which notes that the Quarter 1 Reporting Template was approved for submission by the chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board in advance of the meeting.

The report pack notes that the BCF has two national core objectives for 2025/26:

• To support the shift from sickness to prevention
• To support people living independently and the shift from hospital to home.

The report pack includes the Quarter 1 Reporting Template in which the details performance against the 2025/26 national BCF metrics and a summary of actual expenditure to date.

Health and Wellbeing Board Work Plan

The Health and Wellbeing Board is scheduled to receive the latest version of the Health and Wellbeing Board Work Plan for information. The work plan includes the following themes:

• Improve the health of pregnant women, babies and children
• Improve the health and wellbeing of young people
• Improve the health and wellbeing of working-age adults
• Support healthy ageing
• Improve end of life care
• Improve mental health for all ages

The work plan includes a number of key documents, including:

• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
• Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy
• Solihull Local Outcomes Framework
• Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment
• Better Care Fund
• Local Safeguarding Children's Board Annual Report
• Solihull Safeguarding Adults Board Annual Report
• Annual Public Health Report

The work plan also includes a number of Integrated Care System documents, including:

• Integrated Care System Ten Year Strategy
• Integrated Care System Five Year Joint Forward Plan
• Integrated Care Board Annual Report