Westminster Kensington and Chelsea Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2022-2032

Westminster Kensington and Chelsea Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2022-2032

Health and Wellbeing Board and Strategy Health and Wellbeing Board Health and wellbeing boards are statutory bodies bringing together local partners to promote integrated health and social care to improve residents health and wellbeing. Partners (e.g. Fire Service) NHS Resident Voice Local Authorities VCS Health and Wellbeing Strategy The health and wellbeing strategy outlines the priority areas and how we would like to work together to help people improve their health and reduce health inequalities that exist in our boroughs. Approach to developing a Health and Wellbeing Strategy Bi-borough and place based works in the context of the Integrated Care System and focuses on the whole system, not organisations. 10 years long term to tackle the big issues. Will lead to 2 year work programmes. Prevention based tackle the wider determinants of health and wellbeing (e.g. environment, education and employment) to avoid ill health. Residents voice focus on what is important to residents.

Whats important to you? What does good health and wellbeing mean for you? What is important for you to live a good and healthy life?

Our thoughts so far focus areas and ambitions Physical Wellbeing Mental Wellbeing Healthy Places Healthy Partnerships Opportunities We are all treated fairer and able to shape the decisions that affect us by all who care for us. We all have a good quality home. Our children have the best start in their lives so they can feel safe and happy. We will are all financially stable have with access to good jobs We are supported to look after our mental wellbeing Our boroughs are healthy places. People and We will be cared for by the best people and have access to the best services where and when we need them. Communities can work together to for a fairer society by being active and living healthy lifestyles. We are be able to be supported to live as independently as possible. We are all part of a community and feel safe.

Draft Vision/Mission Statement Our boroughs will be safe, green, vibrant places that support people to have the best quality of life by building on their strengths. We will continue to work with our communities, intensifying approaches within communities that have the most to gain so all people can equitably have the best possible mental and physical health outcomes. Vision 1 We want to reduce health inequalities across our boroughs so everyone has the opportunities and life chances to live their lives to the fullest, healthily and happily. This means we will focus our efforts on supporting people who are affected by avoidable, unfair and systematic causes of health inequalities, by helping them to build their capabilities. Vision 2

Ambition Statements We all have a good quality home We all have a good quality home Key points: Our homes are an important place of shelter, but poor quality housing can negatively affect health and wellbeing Key points are tackling homelessness, improving housing quality in our own stock and the PRS and increasing the availability of affordable housing. Working with communities to make sure that developments contribute to local health and wellbeing. Homes are an important place of shelter and comfort yet can also present a risk to health and wellbeing, particularly around excess cold and falls. Overcrowding, poor quality and unaffordable homes impact on health and can impact negatively on the establishment of strong social, economic, and cultural ties in the community. Westminster is a global city at the heart of the nation s capital and home to a highly diverse resident population of around 261,000 people. Whilst homelessness was prevented or relieved for 447 households (132 of which were families) in 2021, 172 people were still threatened with homelessness and 24% of residents live in one person households. Kensington and Chelsea is also home to a highly diverse resident population of around 153,000 people. Whilst homelessness was prevented or relieved for 560 households (104 of which were families), in 2021 109 people continued to be threatened with homelessness. Our aim is to ensure that our residents have a decent place to live that supports a healthy standard of living. We will provide more of the right kind of homes, in suitable locations and for local people. This means well-designed homes that meet people s needs and are genuinely affordable. We will invest in our existing council homes to make sure they provide safe, secure, and efficient homes for future generations. We will address the Government s inclusive growth agenda and see the delivery of 4,500 new homes across the Boroughs in the next ten years. We will also take action to create high-quality homes, working together with local organisations and communities to design, deliver and maintain good homes in a quality place. We will enhance the supply of high-quality housing for those in receipt of residential care, or that enables independence at home. We will address homelessness and rough sleeping wherever possible, supporting people to find suitable settled accommodation. We will integrate specialist advice, including mental health support, within existing outreach services. We will do this by collaborating with our residents and communities, agents and developers. We want our residents, tenants, leaseholders, and partners to feel that our services are there to help them and are actively involved in the design and delivery of developing our homes and neighbourhoods.