The Board will receive an Update on the Alcohol Dashboard.

The Board received the Alcohol Dashboard (attached) presented by Ruth Harrell, Interim Director for Public Health, Plymouth City Council;

The Board heard that;

a)    confidence around the figures was high;

b)    the role of the Board was to seek assurance that the work around alcohol use and misuse use was progressing and the Interim director would welcome to opportunity to return to the Board in 6 months to report progress;

c)    incidents involving domestic violence were not included in some data. This was because there had been a drive to increase the reporting of domestic violence and therefore it was appropriate to report that data separately as a rise was seen as a positive indicator.

The Board noted the report and recommended that scrutiny consider the Alcohol Dashboard.