Health and Wellbeing Boards > Local authorities must ensure they are > Health and Wellbeing Boards should fully operating in accordance with the most recent incorporate and prioritise prevention in their version of the Care and Support Statutory joint health and wellbeing strategies. A well- Guidance. rounded understanding of prevention should > Local authorities should commit to shifting be clearly emphasised throughout the strategy a percentage of their resources towards and across the life course and pathology of a prevention. In doing so, they may find the range of conditions or illnesses mentioned. recommendations set out in the Southwark > Health and Wellbeing Boards should pay and Lambeth Early Action Commission’s special attention to explicitly recognising the report, ‘Local early action: how to make it value of tertiary preventative interventions. happen’, useful. > Health and Wellbeing Boards should update > Local authorities (and Health and Wellbeing their joint health and wellbeing strategies Boards) can use Local Government Information regularly so that they include key policy and Unit’s toolkit to track and better understand practice developments. their preventative spend. > Health and Wellbeing Boards should incorporate the Care Act’s triple definition of Areas devolving or integrating health prevention into their joint health and wellbeing and social care: strategies. > Devolved areas should seize the opportunity > Health and Wellbeing Boards are encouraged to eradicate the false distinction between to look to define ‘wellbeing’ using the Care Act’s people’s clinical and social needs, and to definition set out in Section 1 of the Care Act. return prevention savings to a single integrated budget. Local authorities: > Local leaders should ensure prevention > Local authorities should clearly distinguish (in all its forms) is a key aspect of all health and between their separate duties to provide social care devolution deals going forward. information and advice and to provide > Leaders within Greater Manchester and preventative services within their local plans other devolved areas should ensure strategic and strategies. plans for the integration of health and social > Local authorities must be mindful that many care fully incorporate and prioritise prevention. adults and older people do not have the basic skills to use the internet. Voluntary and community sectors, > Those local authorities yet to do so should including the British Red Cross: develop a local approach to prevention. > The voluntary and community sectors > Those local authorities yet to do so should should continue to raise awareness of both develop a commissioning strategy for prevention people’s social care entitlements and local or at least update their existing commissioning authorities’ adult social care duties. strategies to reflect the changes made through the Care Act. These should clearly specify and include a range of examples of all three types of prevention. > Despite budget constraints, local authorities should continue to look for ways to invest in ‘a broad range of (preventative) interventions, as one size will not fit all’. While reinvesting in services previously seed-funded by Government (such as telecare and handypersons services) is welcome, local authorities should seek to realise the Care Act ambition of developing ‘truly innovative’ services. British Red Cross Prevention in action [email protected] 26 l l