Wandworth Local Health and Care Plan - October 2019

31 The voluntary and community sectors present us with some of the greatest untapped potential resource to meet local health and wellbeing challenges, as part of joined up health and care system, through prevention and coproduction. We recognise voluntary and community sector organisations: • Play an increasingly important role in the Health and Care Plan. • Understand local needs and local solutions. They can engage with communities which statutory organisations struggle to reach. • Have a growing appetite to work collaboratively not only with each other but with our commissioning bodies and providers. • Can provide added value through local knowledge and intelligence, involving volunteers, attracting additional external funding and utilising local venues. We recognise that statutory and voluntary/community sector stakeholders have a shared responsibility to ensure our social care, community, wellbeing and hospital services are as joined up as possible so we can collectively tackle the causes of health and wellb.eing issues. Investment in infrastructure to support the development of the voluntary and community sector potential is already underway. Creating the right environment The Voluntary and Community Sector