Issue - meetings

Background:

This report provided an overview of the development of the Kent and Medway Integrated Work and Health Strategy developed between May 2024 and June 2025. It sets out the process, engagement and feedback.

The Strategy had the aim of integrating and improving support for people and employers with the goal of helping people with long-term health conditions and disabilities to start, stay and succeed in work.

The development of the Strategy started with an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) workshop focused on work and health. This workshop brought together a number of stakeholders, including Medway Council. Themes explored included skills development, employer perspectives, mental health, community support and in-work support for people and employers.

A Diversity Impact Assessment was set out at Appendix 4 to the report.

The report had been previously considered by the Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 20 August 2025, the comments of which were set out in an addendum report within Supplementary Agenda Number 2.

Reasons:

The Kent and Medway Integrated Work and Health Strategy has been developed collaboratively by partners in Medway Council, Kent County Council and NHS Kent and Medway ICB in conjunction with a wider range of partners across the Kent and Medway Integrated Care System (ICS). It is a key contributor to national policy of supporting people into meaningful work which plays an important part in good physical and mental health and wellbeing along with being key to economic development in Kent and Medway.