Councillor Janet Clowes - Health and Wellbeing Portfolio
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Health and Wellbeing
Councillor Janet Clowes is the ward member for
Wybunbury and has lived in Hunsterson for 23 years. Janet
became a Councillor in May 2011 and served as Cabinet support
member for health and well-being for six months before becoming the
Cabinet member for health and wellbeing in January 2012.
Janet is married to Nick, an NHS Consultant,
and they have three sons. She trained as a nurse and later
completed her degree and teaching qualifications in order to become
a lecturer in health and social care at South Cheshire College in
Crewe. She went on to complete her masters degree at Keele
University and was appointed to University College, Chester, as
under-graduate lecturer in health studies and later as
post-graduate programme leader in public health.
Prior to standing as the Conservative
Parliamentary Candidate in Wythenshawe and Sale East during the
2010 General Election, Councillor Clowes worked for Stoke-on-Trent
City Council’s children’s services and the Pre-School Learning
Alliance introducing the Portage Home Visiting service for families
with children under 5 years with additional needs.
Janet served as a governor at Shavington High
School for 10 years and now serves as parish councillor for
Hunsterson.
Portfolio
This includes:
- Liaison with borough-wide partners involved in developing and
delivering services that are essential to promoting the health and
well-being of those who live and work in Cheshire East.
- Ensuring that each service area within the Cheshire East
corporate body is aware of its duties and responsibilities in
identifying and delivering services that proactively promote health
and well-being.
What are your priorities within this portfolio?
I want to develop strong, working
relationships with our partners who include: clinical commissioning
groups; public health teams; third sector organisations; local
hospitals; hospices; and residential and care homes. Through these
partnerships we can ensure that all Cheshire East residents have
access to good quality, integrated health and social care when they
need it.
We are currently going through a period of
dynamic service change and big financial challenges. It is
therefore vital that we try and maintain the continuity of
effective and high-quality services at this time.
It is also important that the Council’s
resources and services can be accessed by residents in ways that
promote their wellbeing and enhance their physical and mental
health.
We need to ensure that
Cheshire East resources and services in all sectors of local
government, can be accessed appropriately by residents in ways that
actively promote their well-being and enhance their physical and
mental health.
There is also work to do in
identifying, supporting and promoting the valuable “assets” within
our local communities for example; carers, charitable projects, the
work of voluntary organisations, Church groups, Parish Councils,
the W.I. that all directly and indirectly enhance the health and
well-being of individuals and groups.
What will present the greatest challenges within your
portfolio?
The greatest challenge is
designing and implementing cross-partner strategies that will, over
time, eradicate health inequalities and improve the life chances of
all residents across the Borough.
This is reliant on successful
partnership working, in particular, developing an effective Health
and Well-Being Board that will inform the commissioning of public
health and health improvement initiatives for the benefit of all
those living in Cheshire East.
How can people contact you?
By e-mail janet.clowes@cheshireeast.gov.uk
by phone 01270 520327.
