EAST LONDON HEALTHIER CHILDREN, HEALTHIER PLACE:

1. EAST LONDON HEALTHIER CHILDREN, HEALTHIER PLACE: Local authority self–assesment toolkit for reviewing whole systems approaches to tackling childhood obesity

2. Programme background 2009 – 2012 History of East London “olympic” boroughs working together to secure a health legacy from the Games – the Host/Growth Boroughs 2012 – 2014 Health Legacy programme delivered Healthmakers volunteer training, Healthy Urban Planning Checklist, primary care employment support pilot, healthy workplace interventions, and Active People, Active Park 2014 New mandate independent of the Growth Borough, single focus on shifting the culture and environment that drive an obesogenic environment through a whole systems approach to childhood obesity 2015 East London Healthier Children, Healthier Place, expanding partnership, collaborative working, driven by DsPH offering dedicated programme management; shared learning and best practice events; information exchange and peer support; building the evidence base; links to pan-London networks and programmes

3. Background to the self-assessment toolkit • Public Health teams needed a mechanism to prioritise “what to do” about child obesity • Programme Board wanted to evaluate or capture process change, as outcomes longer term • Self-assessment model seemed promising • Opportunity to build on the work for the London Health Improvement Board towards an obesity framework

4. What the toolkit aims to do • Maps an organisations whole systems approach to tackling obesity • Strengths • Gaps against the evidence base • What’s deliverable • Determines local priorities • Should • Be easy to use, facilitates rapid review • Support engaging broad base of partners • Inform understanding of whole system approach to childhood obesity • Be bespoke to local conditions

5. Using the toolkit • An assessment of 13 key areas of focus of the childhood obesity system…how are you progressing against these, what are you doing? What are you not doing? What more could you do? Is any of it realistic? What appear to be your priorities? What are your actual priorities? • Look through each in detail (promoted by suggested interventions within each) and what level of work you’re doing (or not doing) to deliver on those areas • Summary and Action Pan for each area of focus to reflect what is going well, what needs more attention and where there are real gaps • Action Plan then matched against a ‘reality check’ with resulting score on deliverability • All areas of focus ranked according to score, informing priorities for forthcoming period (e.g. year ahead) • Priority table setting out key areas of focus for your organisation

6. Assessing themes

7. Action Plan per theme

8. Reality Check

9. Summary

10. Priorities for year ahead

11. Reflections… • Does it feel right? • Is it asking the right questions? • Will it reflect all areas of the ‘system’? • Does the scoring highlight areas that need attention? • What’s missing? • Feedback welcome… • More info on East London Healthier Children, Healthier Place, forward programme, Knowledge Hub group, to join and sign MOU… • Matt Creamer • Matt.creamer@royalgreenwich.gov.uk • 020 8921 6625