The VCSE Healthy Communities Alliance is the recognised governance structure through which the Staffordshire and Stoke-on Trent Integrated Care System (ICS), including the Integrated Care Board (ICB), Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) and Place-based Partnerships (PbPs) have agreed to engage, consult and empower VCSE organisations and networks to be involved in our health and care system on an ongoing basis.

The current component forums that make up the Alliance currently include three place forums (North, Southwest and Southeast) plus thematic groups:

• Community Mental Health
• Children, Young People and Families
• Social Prescribing Advisory Group