How we will work together to deliver the Bradford District Strategy

Principles

The delivery of the district’s ambitions is underpinned by key shared principles. These principles are the foundation of everything that we do and are drivers in delivering our organisational and partnership priorities. These are:

• Moving to effective prevention
• Locality based delivery closer to communities
• Focusing on sustainability
• Maximising innovation and use of technology

Effective Prevention. Too many people in the Bradford District die early from preventable diseases or need emergency care and crisis interventions. All services and agencies work with people who would have benefited from help earlier. This impacts negatively on individuals and families. It also results in more financial pressures. We must work together to change the dial on this position, to focus on wellbeing and prevention services instead of needing to put all the resources into longer term and urgent care. Good quality stable work, higher incomes, a good education and access to green space and leisure are all part of preventing people needing high need services.

Locality Based Delivery. We know from people in the district that they want to access some services closer to where they live. Access to good quality housing and green space; a thriving VCSE sector and access to services that help people to stay well. People do not want to visit lots of different places for help and work out who they need to talk to. We are committed to working together as partners to offer joined up services within communities so that people are supported to the services they need and signposted to the right offer.

Sustainability. The national and international impact of global climate change is increasing. Addressing sustainability is one of the key principles of how the partnership approaches all of its work. Sustainable approaches to food, transport, housing, nature, and the economic development of the district are essential drivers of future success. Everything that we do as a partnership is linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In introducing the Clean Air Zone in 2022 Bradford has shown the power of sustainability action in improving the lives of residents. The national impact of climate change impacts is increasing. This is a climate emergency and interventions at a local level need to be our third big obsession, underpin all of the decision making and planning that all the partners undertake.

Maximising innovation is essential in a place where need is high and resources are stretched. Finding new ways to offer services, empowering individuals including through digital and improving processes through automation are all important. We have an advantage with the largest AI department in the country at Bradford University along with a world class reputation for Med Tech and we need to maximise this advantage.

Delivery

The District Strategy has been developed by the Health and Wellbeing Board (HWBB) Partners in Bradford District. The Wellbeing Board is made up of organisations who work together to improve the lives of people in the district. Governance has been reviewed to be clear about the four thematic partnerships that feed into the HWBB in Bradford.

Each of these partnerships has a set of shared priorities and projects- those things that need many partners to achieve the change that the district needs. These are set out in a delivery plan for each thematic partnership. These plans are separate documents and form “Chapters” of the District Strategy and set out in detail how we will work together to achieve our priorities. There are many things that organisations do as standalone activities that contribute to achieving the shared priorities, and all partners have agreed to use them as a frame in development their own plans. The District Strategy provides the frame for the things that partners do in their organisational plans, and also and sets out the things that we will do together.

The District Strategy will be owned and championed by the HWBB who will receive annual updates on the full set of the priorities and outcomes. Every year each of the partnerships will report on their “Chapter” of the Plan to the HWBB where there will be a more detailed discussion and scrutiny of the priorities in the plan and the wider work by the thematic partnership.