Issue - meetings

The Chair of the Social Care & Health Scrutiny Committee presented, for the Executive Board’s consideration, that Committee’s Task & Finish Group Report 2018/19 ‘A review of the impact of loneliness in Carmarthenshire’, and the following four recommendations detailed therein which had been formulated by the Group following the consideration of a range of evidence over a series of meetings held between June 2018 and April 2019:

·       Take a strategic approach to loneliness;

·       Address loneliness as an important shared priority;

·       Focus on building and supporting community assets;

·       Directly address barriers to connection.

The Task and Finish Group and the officers who had assisted were thanked for the excellent work undertaken.

The Board was reminded that the issues of loneliness and isolation had also been highlighted in the findings of the Carmarthenshire Rural Affairs Task Group, Minute 6 of the meeting of the Executive Board held on the 1^st July 2019 refers, where lack of transport, both public and private, was also seen as a contributory factor.

UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVED that the report and recommendations be endorsed for further consideration.