People who were Present - Lambeth Council

LLDPB 6 November 2003
Lambeth Learning Disabilities Partnership Board
6 November 2003 at Lambeth Accord
People who were Present
Member’s of the Board
Linden Rowley, Director of Community Renewal (Co chair)
Neil Burton, Service User rep (Co chair)
Leroy Boyles, Lambeth Education
Debbie Burgess, User Development Worker (Lambeth Mencap)
Geraldine Abrahams, Lambeth PCT
Mary Wells, Carer rep
Boz Borowy, Lambeth Mencap
Keith Posner, Mencap Pathway (Employment Champion)
Rhys Price, People First
Sydney Cort, Carer rep
Chris Knaggs, Lambeth Housing
Margaret Eynon, Service User rep
Councillor Roger Geiss, Lambeth Council Executive Member
Anne Bowman, Learning Disability Register (Merton & Sutton PCT)
Manny Oraka, Service User rep
Harry Tuck, Children and Families
Aly Bingham, Supporting People Team
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Supporting the Board
Frances Pitcher, Learning Disabilities, Contracts and Commissioning
Hannah Rapport, Lambeth Social Services
Hedy Ditchfield, SLAM
Thomas Cullen, Learning Disabilities, Contracts and Commissioning
Anne Worthington, Learning Disabilities
Other attendees
Billy Williams, Lambeth Service User
Martin Ward, Lambeth Service User
Alison Hand, Care Manager Learning Disabilities
John Cam, BSEC
Joan Smith, BSEC
Pauline Pepperrell, Heath Team
Gill Breathen, Health Team
Derek Hill, Lambeth Carer
Bernie Ward, Learning disabilities team
Irene Bezzina, Lambeth service user
Maria Day, Care Manager Learning Disabilities
Vanessa Stearn, Health Team
Beverley Brown, Lambeth Walk
Beatrice B, Lambeth carer
Margaret Barrett, Service User rep
Flo Granthan, Lambeth carer
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1. Welcomes
Neil and Linden welcomed everyone to the September Partnership
Board meeting.
2. Apologies
Denis O’Rouke, Lambeth PCT
Christine Donovan, Lambeth College
Averil Ledsham, Connexions
Steve Cody, Lambeth Social Services
Dr Louise Michell, Lambeth GP
Robert Nicholls, Lambeth Social Services (Learning Disabilities)
Andrew Preston, Provider Forum rep
Mark Allen, SLAM
Graham Griffin, Lambeth Education
3. Voluntary Sector Grants and Fair
Access to Care (FACS) Prevention
Strategy
This item was moved forward in the agenda as Cllr Roger Giess
could only attend the meeting briefly.
The council fund voluntary organisations for a range of services.
The Council is moving from grant aiding to commissioning
services.
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There is currently a process which aims to establish which
voluntary organisations provide which particular service.
There are specific services, which the Council would like to
prioritise as areas of improvement.
All voluntary sector providers are being asked to submit bids. This
will be a legal contract of guaranteed funding for three years.
Voluntary sector providers should submit expressions of interest
by Friday 14 th November 2003; further proposals will be needed by
February. This will enable the council to establish which
organisations provide which specific service.
Consultants have devised Fair Access to Care (FACS) Prevention
Strategy in draft form. The prevention strategy is for those people
that do not meet the FACS eligibility criteria to receive a service
from Social Services.
Voluntary Sector Providers feed into the FACS prevention strategy
as people who do not meet the eligibility criteria could be provided
prevent ional services from voluntary sector providers.
Voluntary Sector providers have been sent copies of the 1 st
prevention strategy draft and should feed back to Fran Pitcher.
It was agreed that the subject had been brought to the board far to
late and Roger Giess made the point that stronger links between
all Partnership Boards within the Council could highlight such
areas in the future.
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4. Minutes of the July meeting
Amendment made in Item 6.
Hedy Ditchfield stated that she would
contact the Liverpool Health Team
not Social Services.
Action Points
The Board went through the action points from the last meeting.
Particular note was given to:
Action point 2 – Day Service Modernisation
A number of people have written to Robert about Day Service
Modernisation. Also the User Forum has given their comments.
ACTION POINT 1 – The board agreed that all comments
should be included in the report that goes to the Executive
Committee.
Linda Jordan has the day Service Modernisation report but is yet
to comment.
Action point 4 – Service user seeking asylum
The Department of Health (DoH) responded to Linden’s letter
asking if the person in question was a minor. There has been no
further response from the DoH as yet.
Action point 5 – Prevention Strategy
This has been deferred to the next meeting in January.
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5. Questions
Neil went through the question from
Margaret Eynon of the User Friendly
group.
Q. Why are the flats boarded up on Broadmore Gardens?
A. Chris Knaggs – Housing Manager from Lambeth Housing has
not been able to establish who owns these properties and
therefore cannot comment why the flats are boarded up. Chris will
pass the information to the empty homes officer.
Q. Manny Oraka asked why there are so many rough sleepers
people in Lambeth.
A. Linden stated that rough sleeper figures in Lambeth had
actually gone down recently.
Have your say!
If you have a question you would like to ask the board please
send, email or telephone questions to:
Thomas Cullen
Email: tcullen@lambeth.gov.uk
Mary Seacole House
91 Clapham High Street
Telephone: 020 7926 4625
London
SW4 7TF
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6. Health Action Plans (HAP)
Irene Bezzina, Pauline Pepperrell and Gillian Bretherton presented
slide show overheads about what HAPs are, how they can help
you and how to get one.
A Health Action Plan writes what needs
to be done to help the person to stay
healthy. It also writes what support the
person may need to do this.
A health facilitator helps you make your
HAP. A Health facilitator can be a friend or a family member or
even yourself.
The targets of ‘Valuing People’ are that all people with a learning
disability should have a Health Action Plan by June 2005.
There is to be a HAP steering group set up soon, so decisions can
be made on how to let people know about HAP.
GP’s have been informed and the PCT
have training schemes for GP’s in
January and February.
PCP and HAP do have links but it was stated that each has a
purpose within its own right. One could work in tandem with the
other. Register services were highlighted as a good way to let
people know about HAP and PCP.
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For more information contact:
Gillian Bretherton or Pauline Pepperrell
340 Brixton Road
London
SW9 7AA
Telephone: 020 7411 2960
Fax: 020 7411 2989
Gillian.Bretherton@slam.nhs.uk
ACTION POINT 2 – The Partnership Board endorses HAPs and
it was also agreed that a progress report would be needed.
Gillian will report back as she is also working on the strategy.
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7. Housing Strategy
Frances Pitcher presented the
Housing Strategy to the board with
a slide show.
Frances went through –
• What is a Housing Strategy?
• What does the government say?
• What do Lambeth know already?
• What has been done so far?
• What do we want to do?
• What will people need in the future?
ACTION POINT 3 – Please get comments to Frances or Alison
Hand by the end of November. Decision to endorse strategy
to be made at the next meeting.
For more information contact:
Frances Pitcher
Mary Seacole House
4 th Floor 91 Clapham High Street
London
SW4 7TF
Telephone: 020 7926 4687 or 020 7926 4619
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8. Fair for all
This item is to be presented at the next partnership Board in
January.
In the mean time there is an article on Fair for all in the 5 th edition
of the Partnership Newsletter.
9. Evaluation of the Partnership Board
This item was moved to the next meeting. There is a
questionnaire, which asks:
1. How are the Partnership Board
meetings?
2. How effective are we?
3. What are the priorities of the
Partnership Board over the next year?
ACTION POINT 4 – Linden to work with Rhys to make
Questionnaire more accessible.
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10. Any Other Business
Rhys made the Partnership Board aware
that the Communications Project paper is
completed and available. We will get this
online as soon as possible for people to
view.
11. Next meeting
Thursday 8 January 2004
Room 8 on the ground floor in the Town Hall
Meeting will run from 10.00 – 12.30
Items:
1. Budget 2004/05
2. Housing Strategy-approval
3. Quality Framework
4. Fair for All
5. Day Services Update
6. Valuing People ”How are we doing”
7. Proposed Partnership Arrangements
8. Community Plan
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