Download PaCC Steering Group Meeting – 7h November 2012 Attendees

PaCC Steering Group Meeting – 7h November 2012
Attendees:
Amanda (Chair), Tim (minutes), Debbie, Rachel, Nicky, Emma, Sharon, Jill, Martin, Marion, Lore Reidel
Apologies: Sam, Carrie, Susmitha
Agenda:
1. Welcome, New Members and Apologies (Amanda)
2. Minutes of Last Meeting
3. Feedback from Boards and Groups
4. Strategy Away Latest (Tim)
5. Lore Reidel - Integrated Child Development and Disability Services - Social Care
6. Growing the Steering Group and New Board Reps (Debbie)
7. Health Report Latest and Follow Up Event (Amanda)
8. Awards Panel Selection and Latest News (Tim)
9. Amaze AGM and Award Nomination Requests (Debbie)
10. Calendar Update (Jill)
11. Amaze Outreach Update (Amanda)
12. AOB
Action items agreed:
Person
Responsible
Date
Completed
Minutes accuracy – approved
Matters arising:
Action: Sue Couloris to write a brief update on Keyworking for Amaze newsletter.
– Not yet received, Debbie to chase.
Debbie
Debbie has approached Sav re: joining the Steering Group but unfortunately Sav
has declined.
Debbie
7/11/12
Amanda has placed advert in the most recent PaCC bulletin for new members.
Amanda
7/11/12
Health Overview Scrutiny Committee – Amanda has managed to put the PaCC
Talk Health Report on the committee agenda.
Feedback from reps/boards Sam
Amanda
7/11/12
DCSPB Sam (mainstream) and Amanda (Special) are the reps.
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Ruby has been “offered up” as wheelchair service champion. Suggestion to
resurrect the wheelchair and equipment group and invite Ann Dyson. Possibility
of web based triage for serving of equipment, SE7 keen to get behind this. PaCC
should get on board with this. Wheelchair services to be audited by Partnership
Charter next year. Not a reflection on Ann Dyson ‘s ability, she is new to the post.
Action: Ruby to co-ordinate wheelchair and equipment activities.
Ruby
CYPC – Rachel has asked for a breakdown by SEN of exclusions. Exclusions is a
major priority.
Action: Has the breakdown been provided?
Rachel
HOWSC – Presented health report and silenced the meeting with the personal
story. Debbie and Amanda were fabulous in their hour long slot with the
councillors. The councillors are now championing the report and have demanded
a response from all the groups detailing action plans to resolve the issues raised.
Need to keep the pressure up with forthcoming meetings.
Carrie recommends getting on the strategic boards as a voting parent
representative member for forthcoming activities.
Individual Budgets (Emma) Pilot for transport will start at the beginning of
November. Three families piloting their own transport to school and working
well. Some confusion over who is eligible. (Aim to get people off buses?)
At present Individual Budgets only cover transport and not education.
Twelve schools are working on single plan with thirty nine families and with a
good range of situations. Some plans have been signed off already.
Action: Emma to speak to Lalli Howell to obtain a signed off plan to help with
training.
Emma
Approach needs to be funded to cover everyone not just until the pot runs out
Patient Consultative Group going really well
Carrie - Code of practice is target. Local offer, what needs to be in there and how
it is to be monitored. Not just tribunal end but with mediation at the front end
between providers and between commissioners and providers.
Martin – data closing group – focus on p scales not diagnosis. Question mark
over giving children just one p scale when a range might be more appropriate.
Have a discussion on p scales at the next steering group meeting?
Rachel congratulated everyone on the amount of work covered by the board
representation.
Strategy Away Day
Action: Tim to write up notes, update the plan and present back ideas for
prioritisation discussion.
Lore Reidel - Notes and structure chart to be sent to Debbie. (See attachments)
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Tim
Small team of 20 looks after 287 children.
Strict criteria for access to team.
Three workstreams – Child Protection, Looked After Children (60+ days looked
after in a year), Children In Need.
Would be nice to see Social Care piggy back on SEN reviews.
Action: Transition should be based on the school year. Debbie to email Lore to
raise it.
Debbie
Action: Lore to provide a brief summary for inclusion in the next
bulletin/newsletter. Tim to chase.
Tim
Would be useful to know proportion of children on compass database that do
not meet the social care criteria.
Growing the Steering Group
Three new steering group members nominated and approved – Fiona England,
Sophie Gove, Reza Atai.
Mentors will be provided for them. Intention to meet before and after steering
group meetings, go through the handbook and provide the link to the “odd
bunch” (Debbie’s words not mine – Ed.)
Health Report Latest
There will be a follow up meeting in March.
Action: Need to put item on agenda for the January Meeting to discuss.
Tim
Get views on what worked and didn’t work for the education follow up event.
Awards Panel
Publish information on the Facebook page.
Action: Martin suggested that the we ask the new steering group members to
judge the awards.
Tim
Everyone to drum up nominations at AGM.
Amaze AGM
Martin and Gill volunteered to help set up, man the stall, and get “hot topics”
from people for focus groups etc.
Action: Tim to produce a form to record “Hot Topics”
Calendar Update
Meeting Thursday to finalise.
Line on back with permission from Juliette re: Sean
Possibility of using word cloud
3
Tim
Amaze Outreach
Amanda working on pilot outreach project in key areas in Brighton, targeting
children who claim DLA but are not on the compass database so therefore not
known to Amaze. Moulscombe and Hangleton & Knoll initially.
So far five people from Moulscombe and seventeen from Hangleton & Knoll have
signed up
Good for building relationships. Parent’s like Amaze going to them and keeping it
local.
Really positive door knocking experience.
Danger of being perceived as a social worker role. Issues of confidentiality.
Need to keep reinforcing relationship building over time.
No protocol in place to cope with families identified during outreach who need
further support and may not even be known to Social Care.
Letter writing and appointments are difficult and stressful for many people.
Need Insiders Guide courses run in the local community.
Caroline from Lore’s team can deliver safeguarding training.
Need to get the back end process sorted soon. People need to know what will
happen to any information before they divulge it.
Action: Amanda, Debbie and Rachel need to resolve these process issues to
safeguard all involved.
Amanda,
Debbie and
Rachel
AOB
1. Action: Debbie to circulate a letter in response to the pre-legislative
scrutiny, Pathfinder and Next Steps work.
2. Pathfinder extended until Sept 2014 with subsequent delay in legislation.
Impact on Brighton and Hove not yet assessed.
3. SE7 holding a review meeting on Monday in London.
4. Transport focus group – Amaze deluged with complaints so the first focus
group held with 21 parents, Gil Sweetenham (Strategic Commissioner Planning and Contracts), and Councillor Sue Shanks (Chair of the Children
& Young People Committee). There will be a further working group with
a smaller number of parents. Parents that came will be asked to
volunteer for smaller group.
Action: Publicise email address in bulletin and set up opportunity to log
experiences.
5. Action: Xmas do on Friday 11th Jan. Venue to be confirmed. Martin to
investigate venue.
6. Action: Add talking about the PaCC ethos at the next meeting.
Next meeting – 30th January
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Debbie
Tim
Martin
Tim