Decision details

The Cabinet Member for Health and Communities:

1)       Approved the utilisation of £0.071m received from the Integrated Care Board to strengthen the Covid-19 Community Champion and forum work in Derbyshire localities until 31 December 2023 and to approve the allocation of part of the funding as follows:

1a)     a grant award of £23,666 to Links CVS for the Derbyshire BAME Forum activity

1b)     a grant award of £23,666 to Our Vision Our Future (OVOF) for work with adults with a learning disability and/or autism.

2)       Note the intention (subject to the necessary approvals being obtained in accordance with the Council’s Financial Regulations) to transfer £23,666 to Adult Social Care to be allocated to the Dementia Support Service for work with adults with dementia and their carers/support.

Derbyshire Public Health have funded the Community Messaging project since March 2021. The additional funding will provide an opportunity to widen the membership of the forum to include community groups who are aligned to the following areas’:

•         BAME communities,

•         People from deprived communities,

•         People with a learning disability and/or autism,

•         Deaf people, those with hearing loss or visual impairment

•         People with a prior diagnosis of dementia

•         People with Serious Mental Illness (SMI)

•         Homelessness people

•         Refugees and Asylum Seekers

•         Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Communities

•         Individuals living with a substance misuse

•         Individuals from the Criminal Justice System

Alternative option 1: Do not use the funding received from Derby and Derbyshire ICB:

This is not a preferred option. The funding will provide an opportunity to widen the membership of the Community Forum and strengthen understanding of, and messaging to, communities’ groups representing those that experience additional health inequalities.