Notes
Bournemouth Learning Disability
Partnership Board
Monday 19 May 2014, Learning Centre, 2.00 pm - 4.30 pm
Who came?
Amanda Frost
Andy Sharp
Co-Chair, Bournemouth People First
Co-Chair, Service Director
Integrated Team Manager
Service Manager for Mental Health and
Learning Disability Services
Principal Community Development Officer
Linda McGuire
Jenni Collis-Heavens Service Manager, Provider Services
Kellie Salter
Hayley Seymour
Sally Baxter
Bournemouth and Poole College
Anna Braczek
Dorset Race Equality Council and HealthWatch
Jen Lea
Mark Harris
Gary Billen
Clinical Commissioning Group
Jo O’Connell
Principal Officer Joint Commissioning
Alyson Evans
Runs Dorset Learning Disability Partnership
Board
Head of Learning Disability Services Dorset
Healthcare
Amanda Parsons Bournemouth People First
Time Keeper, Bournemouth People First
Anthony Giles
Bournemouth People First
Emily Snelling
Debbie Barnfield Bournemouth People First
Bournemouth People First
Daniel Murray
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Who could not come?
Apologies from:
Helen Holland
Louise Bate
Councillor Blair Crawford
Val Roach
Amanda Frost, Co-Chair, welcomed everyone to the
meeting at the Learning Centre.
Everyone introduced themselves
Everyone agreed the notes of the last meeting after
they had checked the actions.
Kellie to reply to
Bournemouth People First’s questions about the team
champions. Anna H to send Kellie the questions
again.
- Kellie has now received the questions.
Kate Cuthbertson has resonded this morning by email.
Bournemouth People First to invite Carole Aspden to a
Partnership Board meeting.
- it has been agreed that Sonia Colton is
going to be the best person to come to the meeting.
Sonia Colton has been added to the Agenda for May.
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Sonia has invited Bournemouth People First to an
event.
this has been done.
Andy S, to
arrange a meeting about the Transitions Sub Group
after the March Partnership Board meeting.
Bournemouth People First have received
an email from Tim Branson, who is now arranging for
the group to meet.
Gary Billen to give Jo O’Connell the name of the
Equality contact person in Health. This was to do with
the Council and Health leading by good example as
employers.
- Gary to pass name to Jo.
this has been done.
- Kellie to get some information about
the answers to the review questions and how they
relate to the recommendations of the Citizen Checker
report.
- This has not been done yet.
to be carried forward
Work in progress
- Andy S,
Brian Langridge and Bournemouth People First to
arrange a meeting to talk about the future of Citizen
Checker, with the Clinical Commissioning Group.
- The meeting is being arranged.
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Big Plan to go onto next agenda as it has been
updated.
- Jo O’Connell to give an update at this
meeting.
(continued) Debbie
Hyde provides information and services for all and any
carers.
Andy agrees there is a need for a Carers Group, but
that there is a need. Also what
we need to
support is needed.
Jo to speak to Debbie again and to
Ivor Cawthorne from Commissioning.
-
Bournemouth People
First to invite someone from the Winterbourne View
Joint Improvement Programme to a Partnership Board
meeting.
Angela Ellis, from the Joint Improvement
Programme will come to the July Partnership Board
meeting.
It is the Health Champions (not Citizen Checkers) to
give the presentation to the Health and Wellbeing
Board has been arranged and will go ahead.
Bournemouth People First to ask Val Cope what
happens to the report from the hospital.
The report has now been finished and
passed over to Debbie Hopper and Val Cope.
- carry forward. Find out what happens
to the report now.
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Jo to talk about a launch event for the new Housing
Choices booklet at the next Where We Live Group
meeting.
: this was discussed at the recent ‘Where we
Live Group’ meeting.
Kellie and Jo to talk about ideas for
an information day / Community Event.
Kellie and Jo are due to meet later this
week to discuss this idea further.
Amanda P gave an update on the Where we Live
group; Lorraine Mealing is now Co-Chair of the group.
Lorraine has previously Co-Chaired the group, and has
also made an Easy Read Housing Plan in the past.
Kellie gave a correction about the information /
community event. It will be planned for lots of different
things and services, not just the Housing Choices
Booklet.
. Not all organisations
which are involved in Direct Payments have easy read
information.
Amanda P to follow up with Enham
about their Easy Read information.
Amanda has contacted Enham (and other
organisations too). She has not heard anything back
yet. She will keep trying.
- Bournemouth People First to
continue to contact Direct Payment providers about
their Easy Read Information.
Bournemouth People First to find out if what used to
be the old Malvern Centre still has an accessible toilet
available.
It is not a changing places toilet, but
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It is still available. There is a café there and the Artisan
Studio with lots of art activities being run. For the local
community, but some focus on learning disability,
mental health, physical disability.
Bournemouth People First to send out
information with minutes.
- Day services update to go on
agenda for May Partnership Board.
- Done.
- Changing Places newspaper article
link to be sent out with minutes.
- Done.
- Bournemouth People First to send out
the proposed Year Planner / agenda for the
Partnership Board meetings to the members.
This has not been sent out yet, but
Bournemouth People First have bought copies to the
meeting for everyone to look at and agree.
- Year Planner to be sent out to
members of the Partnership Board for information.
Amanda P and Dan gave the update as current
Co-Chairs of the group.
- Action plan to go out with minutes.
We looked at some of the action plan points.
– the group
is finding out what is available locally and nationally.
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The group are looking at how the information about
the resources and training will be stored / arranged.
This will be an ongoing piece of work.
There will be no speed dating this time.
It is a joint event with People First Dorset, and Poole
Forum. We are keeping it simple for now, for the 1st
new event, to see how it goes.
There maybe a quiet area for sexual health advice
and information available, there are some volunteers
from the Sexual Health team.
The Council are looking at updating their policy. There
will be another separate meeting for this. They will
make an Easy Read plan. They will also inform people
where they can go to find information / support. The
1st draft was shown at the Relationships Group.
Jo asked if there needs to be an information event
about the action Plan. The relationships group has
always been driven by people by a learning disability
(more so than other groups).
The group need to make sure that it really is looking at
what information members / parents / families want
or need.
: Bournemouth People First to send out
Lovin’ Feeling report with minutes to Board members.
Lots of the action plan came from the report.
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Voicing Family Rights is a protocol (how we work with
parents with a learning disability and their children)
written by Dorset Advocacy.
Dorset Advocacy want Dorset, Poole and Bournemouth
Councils to sign up and agree to the protocol.
Bournemouth People First have tried to contact lead
person on this work, but have had no response.
Bournemouth Childrens Services were unaware of this
piece of work.
Jo to follow up and contact Mike Pochin
and ask that draft is sent out and consulted on. This
may help people to sign up.
Emily suggested Dorset Advocacy could be invited to
a future Board meeting. Not everyone knows enough
about it yet.
- Ask Mike Pochin from Dorset Advocacy
to come to the next Board Meeting in July.
Keeping Safe sub group update (Les sends apologies
so Amanda F to give update with Andy.)
- Presentation to go out with minutes.
Bournemouth People First, Bournemouth
Council, Police and Crime Commissioner, Yellow Buses,
Bournemouth YMCA (Chatterboxes) are all involved.
The partnership is being extended and more
organisations being involved.
67 places trained to offer support with
Safe Places in Bournemouth. There are 103 including
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The Safe Places are not highly used, but the fact that
they are there gives people more confidence to be out
and about and going to new places.
Amanda P noted that a local Safe Place recently
contacted Paul following concerns about a member,
this is another way they are used.
Out Right handouts include information on accessibility,
and also Safe Places. This information is also available
on the Out Right website www.outright.co.uk .
Chatterboxes have done some good mystery
shopping recently.
Yellow Buses driver training are involving
people with learning disabilities, and use their
feedback forms to report problems.
Last year there was a training session at Streetwise.
It is possible that there maybe another event later this
year; this may include Dorset Fire and Rescue.
This is still in use. The
Police are becoming more involved and an Equality
Champion from the Police will attend a Keeping Safe
meeting soon.
95 referrals since beginning of the
scheme; over half of which have gone to court.
Previous to the scheme prosecutions would probably
have been dropped as witnesses unable to give
evidence without the support provided.
Keeping Safe in the Community is a lot
of work, but to link into Keeping Safe in the home is
something that is being worked on.
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Dorset Healthcare are doing some work
around offenders that have mental health and
learning disabilities (Steve Fletcher is the lead nurse).
Keeping Safe sub group are linking with this.
Government update on their Hate Crime
Action Plan (easy read version of available).
Andy W to send link to Bournemouth
People First to be sent out with meeting minutes.
Mark Harris asked about Safe Place scheme, and if
Paul checks the support they need and get (if staff
move on etc)
with Paul.
: Bournemouth People First to check this
Jo asked about the
Speaking Out campaign hate crime app by Dorset
Police.
It is not an easy read format, but it is quite user friendly
and has some good information on it. It is aimed at a
younger student population, but is available to anyone
who maybe interested.
Hayley Seymour said that
she thought that it would be a stronger position for
everyone involved if the Keeping Safe group were joint
between Poole and Bournemouth.
Jo commented that there were 2 new joint groups
(Work and Education and Relationships sub groups),
and that these could be used as a learning curve for
future plans – how to do it and when would be the
right time. Both areas face similar challenges.
Amanda P said that the other difference was that the
other groups were completely new, and they were still
having problems with co-chairs.
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Keeping Safe is an established sub group, and there
are co-chairs already in place. Jo said that there was
not a Safeguarding representative in the Bournemouth
Keeping Safe group (which there is in Poole); all
agreed that this could be looked at as needed.
- Andy Sharp to contact Phil Hornsby,
Co-Chair of the Keeping Safe group in Poole, about
joining the Bournemouth and Poole groups together.
Jenni Collis-Heavens gave a presentation.
- Presentation to go out with minutes.
Day services are changing. This is part 2 of the
changes.
On the 30th April 2014 Bournemouth Borough Council
Cabinet members agreed:
●To go ahead and get more information about
for
setting up a
Adult Social Care services in Bournemouth. This
information will then be put in a report for the
Cabinet to look at in
.
Cabinet will then decide if this is something they
want to do.
●To change the way they deliver services like this:
Enablement Service (All ages / disabilities), Boscombe
Resource centre.
Specialist Dementia Service, Northbourne Day Centre.
Specialist Learning Disability Service, Wallisdown
Heights Day Centre.
Specialist Mental Health Services, Alumhurst Day
Centre.
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The changes to the services will happen between May
and September 2014.
There is
to the agreed number of
sessions/days as part of these proposals.
to the amount people will have to pay to
attend the Centre / come to the service.
They want to co-produce how the services will work
and have started Working Groups (everyone working
together).
Jenni Collis-Heavens answered some questions about
her presentation.
Amanda P asked about First Point Plus as part of the
changes. Andy said that these changes had not been
part of the main engagement and consultation.
Emily said that Bournemouth People First have been
attending the working groups and will be supporting
the changes, particularly around Culture Change and
Community Connecting.
Emily was slightly concerned that although the working
groups were working well, there needed to be more
people who use the service consulted. She said that
Bournemouth People First would be happy to send
their template for activity choices which could be used
for consultation.
Anja.
Bournemouth People First to send to
Jenni agreed this would be useful and they would use
the template.
Amanda F wanted a clearer understanding on what
enablement means.
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Sonia Colton gave a presentation.
minutes.
- Handout to be sent out with the
Sonia said that the information from the Government is
changing all the time, so she tries to keep people up
to date.
There is a Special Education Needs and Disability
Reform. This will involve:
●
This means having all the information on local
education, health and care services for 0 - 25 years
on one website.
There is a group looking at how the Local Offer
Website will look. Amanda P asked if it would be Easy
Read. Sonia said that Bournemouth People First could
be part of the group.
- Sonia to invite Bournemouth People
First to the working group about easy read for the
website.
●
These will replace Special Educational Needs
Statements.
Young people with these plans will offered Personal
Budgets so they have more choice over their
Education, Health and Care Support.
●
Education, Health and Social Care will need to plan
and pay for services together.
They will need to check with young people and
their families that they are getting the right support,
and also the right amount of support.
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Extra items to be added to the next agenda had been
discussed during the meeting. These included in
addition to the planned updates, already on the draft
agenda for July:
●Mike Pochin on the Voicing Family Rights protocol.
●Engagement and Winterbourne View Joint
Improvement Programme.
Jo suggested that it might be useful for the Board
members to be able to read through the year
planner for the Partnership Board meetings.
- Amanda P agreed that this could be sent
out to everyone.
Date:
Time:
Place:
Monday 28th July 2014
2 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.
Bournemouth Learning Centre, Ensbury Avenue
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