Health and Wellbeing Strategy

This Strategy provides a framework for using the powers and influence the Councils have, to bring about positive change and enable our communities to thrive and prosper, be healthier and more resilient. We want to see the golden thread of health and wellbeing running through all that we do and that we use this to influence our levers of change - in planning, in our green spaces and in our decisions.

The Strategy recognises that both Councils have limited resources, and so we need to target those resources to people experiencing the greatest inequality of health and wellbeing so they can bounce back quickly and not get left behind. It recognises the extraordinary work of people helping their own community; we want to build on these assets and give people the health and wellbeing tools to help themselves, and work with them to unlock the potential in our communities.