Public Involvement and Engagement Advisory Committee
In March 2025, the board agreed to disestablish the Public Involvement and Engagement Advisory Committee (PIEAC). At the point in establishing the PIEAC in July 2022 there was a need to develop and establish mechanisms for listening, engaging and involving local people for the ICB. The committee has had an advisory role to the Board in supporting the ICB to deliver against the principles and approaches set out in the ICB strategy for working in partnership with people and communities. This includes successfully developing a range of mechanisms for the way the ICB engages and involves local people and ensuring the voice of local people and residents is actively embedded and valued in decision making of the ICB and at all levels of the system, particularly in relation to inequalities and those who are seldom heard.
In relation to the review of ICB governance presented to Board in March 2025, it has become clear that as engagement and involvement mechanisms have become more mature across the ICB, and more regular updates will be presented at the ICB Board in relation to engagement, involvement and communications either as separate reports or within individual agenda items.
To support this, and to provide assurance to the board of the arrangements to discharge its duty for public involvement and consultation the following arrangements were agreed by the Board in March 2025:
- quarterly insight reports to be presented to the board in relation to engagement, involvement and communications.
- the ICB continues to work in partnership with local Healthwatch and voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sectors through regular partnership meetings.
- Oversight of engagement, involvement and communications strategy and approaches to support service change and consultation will be overseen by the ICB executive management team and assurance and/or recommendations will be provided to the Board on such proposals.
- a representative from the communications and engagement team would attend the Quality and Outcomes Committee to contribute insight from engagement and involvement activity to support the quality and outcomes improvement agenda.
- Previous agenda, papers and minutes of the PIEAC can be viewed below.
A link to engagement and insights reports are available here: LSC Integrated Care Board :: Insight gathered