Health and Wellbeing Forum for voluntary and community sector organisations

22 February 2016

Written by: Valerie Dinsmore, Lambeth Health and Wellbeing Board

Health and Wellbeing - News and announcements

Voluntary and community groups across Lambeth are invited to come to the Health and Wellbeing Forum on Tuesday 23 February.

Health and Wellbeing Forum for voluntary and community sector organisations

Taking early action

Last year, Lambeth’s Health and Wellbeing Board worked with Southwark to establish the Southwark and Lambeth Early Action Commission. This was set up to find ways of taking early action at local level to prevent problems that reduce people’s quality of life and generate needs for public services

Although much wider in scope than the voluntary and community sector, some of the key recommendations of the Commission focus on the role that the VCS can play in supporting early action.

Other developments

Alongside the Early Action Commission, other developments across health and social care, and the wider wellbeing agenda, have highlighted the need for a strong voluntary and community sector, able to contribute to the changing needs of individuals and to the changing structures of service provision.

These developments include local care networks, changes in the Care Act, work to develop resourceful communities, strengthening of integrated care, and the need for preventative services.

In addition, some of the voluntary and community sector have told us about things that matter to them, including networking and knowledge sharing, sustainability, and being better linked into health and social care changes.

We know that local groups have ideas and plans that can support developments across health and wellbeing, and we want to create opportunities for that to happen.