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Every council has a scrutiny function and within Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council I sit on the Social Scrutiny Panel. This provides me with plenty of opportunities to take part in working groups. I have been on several working groups since being elected and they are all important but the Health Inequalities Working Group that I am currently contributing to particularly interesting because Barpool Ward is in the top quartile of Super Output Areas in the country on many areas and the top ten percent in some.
Within the council and with our partner agencies we often talk about narrowing the gaps between standards in the North and South of the county. I have seen plenty of evidence in scrutiny meetings to show that the gaps are substantial. Not that there is any cause for complacency anywhere.
There is only a small amount of money available to the working group and we are to take action to target a specific (as yet undecided) area of the borough as a test area. While carrying out the work we will record evidence of improvements for use as supporting evidence for funding applications to expand on the success and develop further actions.
This may all sound too non-specific and pie in the sky for some but it is through the accurate mapping and consultation with health partners that we are undertaking at the moment that good community projects are born.
I personally have a feeling that something good will come of this work.
