Reductions to Obesity funding (S09)
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Futures Fund
This cut may not get implemented in full because there are proposals to include the service within the futures fund. Please visit the futures fund proposal to find out more.
Preventing & reducing obesity adults & children No direct intervention or prevention programmes for adults or children in Darlington. This will mean that: there will no longer be:-
- Healthy Darlington Hub, based in the Dolphin Centre and wider community.
- Move More Team
- School Sports Partnership Programme, This will have a direct effect on the provision of opportunities for people to change their lifestyles to improve their health, provision of opportunities to engage in an active and sporting lifestyle, and facilitating access into mainstream sports clubs and leisure activities at Eastbourne Sports Complex and the Dolphin Centre. In addition this will significantly affect partnership work with Sport England in bringing in external funding to Darlington to support sport and physical activity. This has totalled £1.22M between Sept 2012-Sept 2015. A recent award from the Football Foundation of £420,000 would be at risk as there is a Community Football Development Programme to be delivered as part of that agreement, which would be carried out by the Sports Development Team, which is part of Healthy Darlington. Furthermore this grant will underpin the revenue model for Eastbourne Sports Complex moving forward. In addition, a number of the posts are externally funded from Sport England and without the management resource to support the programme, funding would have to be returned. There will be a direct impact of £86,560 on the Dolphin Centre budget as the Healthy Darlington budget covers a number of the operating costs for the Healthy Hub and both direct and indirect staffing costs associated with the Dolphin Centre.
Individuals and families will be signposted to resources provided by other agencies including voluntary and private sector organisations, web based information, telephone support or self-help groups.
The mandatory National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) will continue. In line with national guidance the height & weight of all reception and year six pupils in school in Darlington will be measured, recorded and reported to the national surveillance system. Parents/carers will be notified of the outcome of the measurement and as to whether the child is categorised as underweight, healthy weight, overweight or obese however the removal of services means no intervention programmes means children identified as overweight or obese will not have access to any public health commissioned support.
There would be no capacity to undertake local campaigns and limited capacity to support national or regional campaigns in Darlington. Obesity specific services will only be available for adults who are morbidly obese and the only option will be direct referral by the GP to NHS Clinical Services. Funding to Healthy Darlington £509,172.
Related FAQs
What will be the impact on voluntary organisations such as Citizen’s Advice, Age UK, GADD? What happens if they close?
We fully support the work of our voluntary sector partners and hope to continue to work with them in the future. However, the financial situation is such that the Council is not able to continue funding these organisations at current levels. The likely impact of the budget proposals on these organisations is currently being identified, following discussions with the organisations most affected. We hope that they are able to continue their work by looking at where they can make further cost and efficiency savings, but we appreciate that in some cases this may not be possible and it will therefore mean a reduction in the support they can offer to the residents of Darlington. It could lead to the closure of organisations if they are unable to make the necessary changes for them to be sustainable, which will be very regrettable. We want to avoid this happening and we will support organisations making grant applications where we can. We will also be undertaking work to understand the impact of any reductions in service on individuals accessing them.
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