ACTION

1.

Welcome and Apologies

Nick Payne welcomed everyone to the meeting and gave introductions especially for any new members.

2.

Notes of the Last Meeting

The Notes of the previous meeting were approved as a true and correct record.

3.

Matters Arising

LSP Seminars (Pg2)

Jim Clifton asked if there was any feedback as yet regarding the Seminars.  Awaiting the information from the Government Office.  The priorities will remain the same as for 2004 and Nick is not expecting these to change for the next 5 – 10 years.

Cardio Vascular Disease (Pg3)

Steve Singleton questioned what had happened with the transitional funding.  Mandy explained that the feeling had been positive and supportive.  The evaluation was now complete for Bolsover Wellness and will be discussed at the next meeting on 16th January 2006.

CAB Evaluation (Pg4)

Phil gave a brief update on the CAB Service.  The service is predominantly home visits with over 1000 enquiries which has turned into over 400 actual cases.

55% benefits

15% debt

7% employment

6% housing

At present the service are looking for more funding to assist with debt matters.

6 New volunteers in Bolsover have been trained and have held discussions around a full-time service in Bolsover.

Also in the not too distant future Phil hopes that the triage service will be up and running with a dedicated phone system which will enable people to talk to an experience case worker.

Working with Health Teams in Bolsover and Deincourt school with a Young People’s advice worker.

Work has also been carried out with additional funding from Social Services for a Family Liaison Worker, working alongside The Department of Work and Pensions with older people.

Phil passed the North East Derbyshire CAB newsletter for Sam to distribute with the minutes.

5 a day (Pg5)

Steve Singleton asked if we knew how much additional funding for 5 a day.   Mandy agreed that we would find out and put in the notes.

Sam Preston

GB/MC

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5.

Action Plan and Priorities/

Commissioning of Activities 2006/2007

Nick explained about the meeting dividing into 3 work groups to discuss the projects and the best way to achieve the priorities.

Mandy explained that the NRF was still in an underspend situation and this would be discussed at the ESG Meeting later in the week.

The three groups were decided as

1. Older People and transport
2. Physical Activity, young people, wellness and healthy choices.
3. Parenting and advice.

Group 1 :Jim Clifton, Jill Meads, Bridget Smithson, Cathy Sims, Steve Bidwell

Group 2 : Mandy Chambers, Sam Preston, Craig Barnes, Steve Singleton, Ann Syrett, Tina Wilkinson.

Group 3 : Janice Cooper, Joanna Livingstone, Phil Morris, John Harshaw, Phil Bryan, Natalie Price.

Group 1 Feedback

This group had 7 different projects, one of which had a transport theme, which was felt that without this a lot of the other projects would be lost.  They discussed that the funding was for providing drivers rather than capital for the vehicles.  £75K

Community Matron Scheme, the group agreed that this must still happen as is part of Choosing Health.  £53K

COPD Workers, due to local conditions of the area this sits very high on all the targets.   £35K

Carers Sitting Service this is a high demand project but can support itself in sitters but does require admin support.  £15K

The Carers Support Group has been mainstreamed.

Whitwell Community Project, which is a bathing service offered to people in their homes who are unable to do this themselves.  The project could do with a revamp  £24K plus £10K for administration.

Hillstown Elderly Luncheon Club, this is a small figure but the group were unsure where it fitted with the current mainstream. It was agreed that the agencies needed to discuss and see how it fits and whether its compliments any other services, possibly may require revamping.  £20K

This was acceptable to the meeting.

Group 2 Feedback

The group proceeded to look at existing provision (Bolsover Wellness) and new submissions, such as the Schools which is based on the Tibshelf project.   The new project would involve the Health Service, GP Practices, schools basically the whole community.  The overall conclusion was that the model of Bolsover Wellness worked excellently and this model to be used to take forward the work, with one bid to develop in schools with young people and a Community Safety Officer.   The Management Group of Bolsover Wellness is excellent with community, voluntary and statutory sectors involved and this was agreed to be the best way forward possibly with sub groups from this.

Steve Singleton had put together a paper which is attached.

With this project it will involve expanding not just leisure but social, e.g. lifestyles and will improve secondary schools in the District.

Natalie Price questioned whether this project would also fit into other LSP Action Groups such as Community Safety and Education and Mandy explained that services would be commissioned with the appropriate service providers.

This was acceptable to the meeting.

Group 3 Feedback

This group split their projects into CAB, GP Outreach and Release £85K and Living with Teenagers, Young Mum’s and Bumps £60K and Road Safety and casualty reduction.

The CAB project is the larger project with Release being the smaller project of debt counselling services.  The group could see benefits of combining the two groups therefore able to offer more than the smaller groups.  The group were concerned with staff not losing the skills of people already trained.  The CAB service would be able to provide extra training for Release staff and are able to accommodate more volunteers which is beneficial for all areas.

LWT is supporting parents but different ages of the children and could feed into Young Mum’s and Bumps.  The group felt it was very much a case of equity of service for people and standardising the service provided..  This will also feed into the other theme groups e.g. Education.

ACTIONS

In advance of the meeting the commissioning process notes need to be sent the Executive Support Group.

Tina Wilkinson to forward her paperwork to the group.

6.

Any Other Business

Mandy explained that there was underspend this year and could members please start thinking about what they could spend this on as a group, most possibly capital projects which would spend the money well, wisely and quickly.

Cathy Sims suggested Message in a Bottle as it is quick and easy and not a high cost.

Also the Bathing Project whish is unfunded from January and could go forward for contingency.

Steve Singleton suggested projects which could be tagged onto Bolsover Wellness, for example floodlighting at Frederick Gent school and a joint scheme at Whaley Thorns.

Sam to email to members who had not attended the meeting about the additional meeting on Tuesday 7th February 2006.

Frank Revell was concerned with the amount of unused medicines that people had in their homes.   This item is to be agenda’d for the next meeting in March.  Mandy to discuss with the Medications Review Team as there is a worker specifically designated for the Bolsover and may be available to speak to the next meeting.   Nick thanked Frank for raising this issue.

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Date of Next Meeting

Tuesday 7th February, 2.30pm at Sherwood Lodge.

Tuesday 7th March, 2.00pm at Sherwood Lodge.