Issue - decisions

The Cabinet Member for Adults and Health along with the Chief Legal Office submitted a joint report asking Cabinet to note the Swindon findings from the Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire (BSW) report considered Health and Wellbeing Board held on 9^th October 2019, endorse the recommendations and adopt the BSW Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention

Strategy 2019 -2023.

Councillor Brian Ford introduced the joint report and drew Members’ attention to the wide range of actions being proposed that would help to reduce the incidence of suicide further. Councillor Dale Heenan, Cabinet Member for the Town Centre welcomed the training that was being provided to Cabinet Members to promote awareness. Councillor Ford gave an undertaking that this was available to all Members and at one of the scheduled Member Training Sessions, which he hoped would be supported by the political Party Groups. 

Resolved –That Cabinet note the Swindon findings, endorse the Health and Wellbeing Board’s recommendations of 9^th October 2019, and adopt the BSW Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention Strategy 2019 -2023.

The reasons for the decision and alternative options are as set out in the report to the meeting.