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Of our four priority areas of activity, health and wellbeing is the key underpinning offer of our service, both supporting and supported by the other areas of focus – for instance, thinking about known health benefits of reading for our reading offer. We also have a focus on the development of our children’s and young people’s offer, in particular the role of libraries in supporting the Early Years agenda.


Challenges


We are an ambitious service, excited about the many opportunities that we can see over the next few years. We have recently implemented a new staffing structure – we have a young, talented and dynamic staff team working towards clear service priorities. And we have some strong programmes of activity and are developing some exciting new partnerships particularly


with health partners and partners in children and families and innovation.


A key challenge for the service will be responding to the financial challenge. However, we hope to use the examples of our current work and activity as a platform to showcase libraries as part of the solution to the financial challenges, supporting the Local Authority and other partners in health and innovation to do more through better utilisation of an existing asset.


As an example, we are working with Health partners to create a network of Wellbeing Pods in libraries that will enable the delivery of those health services that would benefit from a community based service delivery model (e.g. maternity services) while also introducing residents to those library offers that can support their longer term health and wellbeing.


We are an ambitious service, excited about the many opportunities that we can see over the next few years.


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