Decision details
Progress report of the Loneliness Taskforce
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
The purpose of the report is to share the work
of the loneliness programme to date including insights into the
impact of loneliness in Tower Hamlets, progress on delivery of the
action plan that has been put in place and how this will proceed as
conditions recover. It also discusses the impact of the Covid-19
emergency social distancing measures and the positive community
mobilisation that has resulted. This provides a significant
opportunity to sustain and embed strengthened community networks
and increased levels of volunteering and neighbourliness through
the Council`s recovery and reconstitution programme and our work
with partners in Tower Hamlets Together, the community sector and
the wider community.
The report will make a number of recommendations that prioritise
tackling loneliness and isolation as a strategic issue, a focus for
service areas and an important theme in the Council`s work with key
partners.
Decision:
DECISION
1. To reconfirm that tackling loneliness and isolation is a strategic issue that the Council as a whole must address involving all service areas and resources.
2. To support the continued building of an alliance to tackle loneliness including our partners in Tower Hamlets Together, faith groups, the voluntary and community sector and the wider community.
3. To endorse the importance of highlighting the impact of loneliness and the inspiring response of our local communities in the Council`s post Covid-19 communications planning.
4. To mandate that tackling loneliness continues to be a key thread in the council`s community engagement strategy building on the community mobilisation that has been generated through the Covid-19 emergency.
5. To support the urgent consideration of how the digital exclusion and digital poverty of people in our community can be systematically addressed to ensure that everyone has access to digital tools to access the services they need as well as to keep in touch with friends and family.
6. To note the specific equalities considerations as set out in the report.
Action by:
CORPORATE DIRECTOR, HEALTH, ADULTS AND COMMUNITY (D. RADLEY)
(Director of Public Health (S. Banerjee)
(Programme Lead – Commissioning (K. Williams)
Report author: Keith Williams
Publication date: 31/07/2020
Date of decision: 29/07/2020
Decided at meeting: 29/07/2020 - Cabinet
Accompanying Documents:
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