Sheffield’s Health and
Wellbeing Board is a group of local GPs, local councillors, a
representative of Sheffield citizens, and senior managers in the
NHS and the local authority, all of whom seek to make local
government and local health services better for local people and to
deliver a single approach to improving the health and wellbeing of
Sheffield residents.
The
Board has a formal public meeting, normally four times per year,
interspersed with engagement events and
strategy development meetings.
Attending Meetings/Public
Questions
There is an opportunity for members of the
public to ask questions of the Board under the agenda item
‘Public Questions’.
The arrangements for dealing with questions
and petitions at meetings of the Board are as follows:-
- If you wish to ask a question or
present a petition at the meeting, you must submit the
question/petition in writing at least 2 clear days in advance of
the date of the meeting, by email to the following
address: committee@sheffield.gov.uk.
For meetings held on a Thursday, questions/petitions will need to
be received by 9.00 a.m. on the Tuesday of that week.
- The Chair of the meeting has
discretion as to how questions and petitions are presented at the
meeting and as to whether you are invited to ask your question, or
whether they are read out at the meeting. A response to the
question or petition will be given by the appropriate Board
Member. If you are not able to attend the meeting, your
question/petition may be referred to the appropriate Board Member,
and an answer/response will be provided to you.
- Where a submitted question or petition cannot be
answered if time does not allow, or where a Board Member undertakes
to provide a written answer/response, the written answer/response
will be provided to you and will be published on the
Council’s website.
Please note that the Chair of the meeting may
not accept petitions or questions which relate to:-
(i) matters not
being within the responsibility of the Local Authority or which
affects the City or its inhabitants;
(ii) judicial or
quasi-judicial matters;
(iii) individual
planning/licence/grant applications or appeals;
(iv) named officers
or Members of the Council;
(v) confidential
matters of the type referred to in Schedule 12A to the Local
Government Act, 1972; or
(vi) matters of an
irrelevant, repetitious, defamatory, frivolous or offensive nature
or a general misuse of the opportunity.
Recording is allowed at meetings of the Board
under the direction of the Chair of the meeting. The
protocol on audio/visual recording and photography provides
further information.
**PLEASE NOTE: Meetings of Health and
Wellbeing Board have to be held as physical meetings. Social
distancing restrictions and other public health safety measures
still apply. The Council Chamber can accommodate all Co-operative
Executive Members, plus officers, and a limited number of members
of the public within a safe indoor environment. However, if you
would like to attend the meeting, you must register to attend by
emailing committee@sheffield.gov.uk
2 clear days in advance of the date of the meeting. This is
necessary to facilitate the management of attendance at the meeting
to maintain social distancing. In order to ensure safe access and
to protect all attendees, you will be required to wear a face
covering (unless you have an exemption) at all times when moving
about within the venue. It is also recommended that you undertake a
Covid-19 Rapid Lateral Flow Test within two days of the meeting.
You can order tests online to be delivered to your home address, or
you can collect tests from a local pharmacy. Further details of
these tests and how to obtain them can be accessed here - Order
coronavirus (COVID-19) rapid lateral flow tests - GOV.UK
(www.gov.uk). We are unable to
guarantee entrance to observers, as priority will be given to
registered speakers. To observe the meeting as a member of the
public, please click on the ‘view the webcast’ link
provided on the meeting page of the website.
