Learning Disability Partnership Board - Minutes - 5 May 2005

1 Introductions

2 Ground rules

3 Workshops: Social Care - Green Paper new plan from the government “Independence, well-being and choice”.

Members of the Board introduced themselves.

The ground rules were explained.

Keith Martin explained that for the last two years the government has been talking to people about how it needs to develop social care across the country. The government is looking at how services for adults need to change and have brought out a Green Paper (consultation document – deadline for responses 28.7.05) which details the sort of things they think should happen.

Notes from the workshop to be circulated and brought back to the 30.6.05 Partnership Board meeting. These will be adopted as our response to the consultation.

Individual responses can be made if desired.

Following consultation the government will then produce the White Paper to change the legislation surrounding social care.

4 Minutes of meeting held on 10.3.05

5 Matters arising from meeting 10.3.05

5a Workshop: Profound and Multiple Learning Disability (PMLD)

These minutes were agreed as accurate.

A small group of representatives from the LDPB on 10.3.05 met to agree an action plan.

Using the check list provided by the Valuing People Support Team the group started looking at how it is delivering for people with profound and multi needs. Further meeting to take place to complete the work. Notes will be sent out, comments will be invited and will be sent out to the sub groups for them to consider.

Kevin Wybrant,

Julie Clark,

Karen Gray and

Hugh Lundberg

5b Learning Disability Capital Development Fund. £41,000 to develop service. Leisure service.

£24K for a vehicle.

The day services are purchasing a vehicle for use on the Isle of Axholme.

The remaining money is being used for Leisure Services. Maureen will pull a meeting together shortly and hopefully we will be able to identify where the money will be used in Leisure facilities.

Two bids have come forward.

£10,000 to be spent on the purchase and provision of two special hoists for the swimming pools at Riddings and Baysgarth Leisure Centre.

5c This year’s recurrent Learning Disability Development Fund (£121,000). How is the additional allocation not yet committed to be spent?

The Partnership Board is required to put ideas to the Service Board on 25.5.05 and the Service Board will then consider how we can spend the money. Some money already committed.

Ideas to be costed out and brought back to the Service Board. Suggestions were:

advocacy, employment, training for travel to employment, facilities for Person Centred Planning.

Di Troop to be asked to put together a bid to go to the 25.5.05 Service Board re advocacy Julie Clark and Julie Green to put bid re employment, Kevin Wybrant re the Person Centred Planning facilitators.

Di Troop,

Julie Clark,

Julie Green and Kevin Wybrant

For Service Board on 23.05.05

5d Black and Ethnic groups issues. Feedback from planning meeting.

Planning meeting held to decide how to present to the community panels.

5e Specialist Mental Health Services (report on bid success)

Sub group set up. The Primary Care Trust were successful in their bid for funding for a specialist psychiatrist, jointly with Mental Health colleagues.

No link into Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

We will now complete the “Green Light” document with Mental Health colleagues.

Continuing Care Tool Kit out for trial in the next few weeks. Dual diagnosis and challenging behaviour issues still being refined.

Angela to set up meeting of the sub group

5f Rethink/Time for Action Group. What is happening?

Rethink are in the process on recruiting to replace Tony Deighton and Julie Johnson.

We are very concerned about the lack of an advocacy service from Rethink.

We will address this through the Contracts Officer (JohnSpicer) and ask that he specifically follows up the contract and finds out from Rethink what they are doing and what is their recovery plan.

Joanne Robinson

Mike Briggs /John Spicer

5g Mental Health Capacity Bill – feedback from recent seminar.

We cannot progress having a workshop about this Bill until we have an advocacy service.

Joanne Robinson to look at peer advocacy to support the Person Centred Partnership Day with John O’Brien.

Joanne Robinson

5h “Northern Centre for inclusion - update

As subscribers we will be invited to an advisory group meeting from which we will need clear outcomes.

6 Advocacy Framework – update

An action plan has been written and some tasks have already been completed.

Joanne Robinson to meet with Di Troop to progress further.

Kevin/Lynn to meet with the service users. By the next Partnership Board we should have an action plan on what we want from Advocacy.

Joanne Robinson

Kevin Wybrant

By Part-nership Board meeting on 30.06.05

7 Co-Chairing of Partnership Board – review of current arrangements

Views were sought from this Board: has it worked? do we want to change it? Steven felt that he was doing a good job but recognised that experience in public speaking would be helpful.

It was agreed that we will carry on with the co-chairing. Hugh is happy to continue to co-chair.

It is 4 years since this Board was set up and we need to celebrate and publicise our achievements.

This will be discussed at an extraordinary meeting to be set up in September.

Steven to talk to Job Clubs, telling them who he is and what he does on the Partnership Board.

Steve to possibly become involved on the service user group with KevinWybrant and his work on Person Centred Planning.

Concerns regarding none attendance of family carers - we will use the next Partnership Board meeting to plan towards an extraordinary meeting in September and Colleen Smith is to extend an open invitation to engage carers on the Board.

Colleen to continue attending the Partnership Board meetings and feedback to carers.

We need people that are committed to the Board and people are to be asked to sign up to this.

Julie Green to arrange.

Colleen Smith

8 Person Centred Planning

• Commissioning Strategy
• Workbooks for Care Management
• Feedback from Person Centred Planning Sub-Group

Deferred.

The deadline for feedback was 1.4.05. Kevin Wybrant tabled “Guidelines for self advocates and families re Person Centred Care Management” (see attached) that lists questions that care managers should ask at review meetings.

Kevin Wybrant tabled a report “Person Centred Planning – Report April 2005 for the Valuing People Partnership Board”. (see attached).

Kevin has set actions for the next few months.

At the next meeting he will open this up for questions and discussion.

Kevin Wybrant

30.6.05

9 Planning for the next meeting

Performance Review meeting

Julie Clark has the outcomes that have been measured by the different groups.

Information is required from the various groups so that planning for the next meeting can take place.

Julie Clark

10 Any other business

• Disabled access at the Ancholme Leisure Centre and Bottesford Sports Hall is going ahead.
• Disability Awareness Training for Leisure Services staff is taking place.
• Fitness and Health Club

An out of school club has been set up at St Hugh’s school, named “Fitness and Health Club” by the children of StHughs.

2 x 6 week taster sessions – multi sports (1 for the less disabled and 1 for the more disabled) taking place in the summer term.

Funding for transport (Heartwell)

Funding for staff and equipment (North Lincs Council)

Sustainable through:

FOSH bid for:

• Local Network Fund
• Awards for All

10 Any other business (continued)

• National survey carried out on access to leisure facilities for people with a learning disability.
• National Communication Network meeting to be held in York 27.5.05.
• Election – Campaigning for Success
• A vote of thanks on behalf of all members of the board was given to KeithMartin who leaves North Lincolnshire Council on 3.6.05.

Please see attached the results for the North Lincolnshire area.

Hugh Lundberg had the details if anyone was interested in attending.(See attached)

11 Date and times of future meetings

30 June 2005

9.15 am to 12.30 pm Kingsway Centre

This will be combined with the Quality Performance Review or How well are we doing?

8 September 2005

9.15 am to 12.30 pm Kingsway Centre

3 November 2005

9.15 am to 12.30 pm Kingsway Centre