What we’ll cover• Local authority elected member contact programme• Briefing materials and new ready reckoner• National tackling tobacco conference and breakfast

meeting, Manchester 11 October 2011

Local elected member engagement - aims

• Demonstrate the scale of the harm locally caused by tobacco use and the contribution this makes to health inequalities

• Demonstrate the cost to local communities, local economies and service providers

• Demonstrate the evidence of effectiveness of local action on tobacco and health

• Demonstrate the evidence of effectiveness of collaborative action to tackle tobacco use at local population level

Local elected member engagement - how

• Working with DsPH and tobacco leads to identify key local authority elected members (e.g.Leaders, portfolio holders)

• Discuss best ways to engage them (e.g. individual meetings, health committee or commission meetings)

• Use materials and tools generated through joint work with ASH, Faculty of Public Health, smokefree teams in NW, NE, SW

• Ready reckoner gives scale of health and wider societal costs

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Example slide

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Example from ready reckoner

Local elected member engagement - events• Local Government Group conference, Manchester Town Hall,

11 October 2011: ‘Tackling tobacco in your communities. A compelling business case for action’

• Encourage your council leaders, porfolio holders, executive members for health, DsPH, TC coordinators, EHO & TS chiefs to attend

• Smokefree North West organising a breakfast meeting before the conference

• Theme will be ‘tackling tobacco – opportunities for local authorities in the North West’