Area Coordination Management Meeting
Ashton

Time: 10.00am – 12.00pm
Date: 12th March 2009
Venue: YOT Team meeting Room, 31 Clarence Arcades

Present:

Tracy Wood  -  Area Co-ordinator
Kim McInerney  -  Youth Service PAYP
Donna Vickers  -  Youth Service PAYP
Lucy Gash  -  Community Development Coordinator
Christine Redmond  -  Ashton Family Support
Pam Chadwick -  TMBC Youth Service
Robin Elms  -  Dale Grove School
Julie Waterhouse  -  SEWO –TMBC
Annie O’Malley -  Connexions
Carl Kelsall  - SPY

Note taker: Lindsay Patchett

Item 1: Welcome

Annie welcomed everyone to the meeting and introductions were made around the table.

Item 2: Apologies

Anne Okwei Penny King Jane Dufty

Item 3: Notes of last meeting and matter arising

Item 3.3.7 – Tracy to attend PIP training on Friday 13th March

Item 3.10 – Robin has responded with some changes – however the practitioners handbook may suffice

Item 4 – Consultancy due to feedback to CLT

Item 5 - Shielding  David Hoyle shared brief breakdown with Area Co-ordinators with details of which groups of children had been shielded – Tracy to email breakdown to group.

JASPER Stats – Annie informed to group that the aim is to get the stats on a quarterly basis with a breakdown of which practitioners had inputted information during that quarter.

Item 6 – CYPP coming together – different groups have worked on the document – the document is at draft stage. 31st March is the deadline

Item 7 - Restructure – Areas other than Claire’s, are having job descriptions written at this time. Different opportunities arising.

Item 4: Domestic Violence Support Group

Kim McInerney and Donna Vickers gave a verbal presentation surrounding their service.

• The group has been running for approximately 18 months
• The age range is 11-19
• Referrals coming from schools mainly
• 11 young people aged 13-16 attending at the moment
• Offer the young people anger management/counselling courses
• Held at Duke Street Centre, Denton
• Young people attend the group dependent upon their needs
• Intense work with Off the Record
• Secured funding to allow 1:1 counselling
• Good results from programmes – good feedback from schools, parents etc.
• Can be 1:1 or straight into the group

Information distributed to the group with regards to what PAYP do

Item 5: Teenage Pregnancy update - Tracy

Tracy gave presentation on teenage pregnancy update for the Ashton area, hand outs distributed.

A discussion took place surrounding Teenage Pregnancy, suggested causes and ways in which to reduce the current rates of teenage pregnancy.

Item 6: Community Strategy – Lucy Gash

Lucy gave a verbal presentation on the Community Development Strategy

The main aim of the Community Strategy is to improve the lives of people within the community

• To bring communities together
• Building aspirations
• Encourage volunteering through volunteer recruitment and retention plan
• Bringing together whole families to work together in planning community based activities
• Acknowledging and celebrating successes

Next Step:

• Discussions taking place between users of centres
• Lots of activity at Senior Management level
  

Item 7 : Common Processes

•  JASPER/CAF stats – January/February figures not too good for Ashton, but March is looking better
  • Managers should be pushing the use of JASPER
  • Figures produced quarterly can show which practitioners are using JASPER
• School Action & School Action + - a discussion as to whether the group felt that all children on school action, school action plus or with statements should be record on JASPER as having information to share was held. Ot was agreed that those with statements or those on SA+ should but that it was probably of little value to include those on SA as issues such as in this category would be addressed within the school. All children with statements should already be on JASPER as having information to share – David Hoyle to confirm.

Item 8: YOL Survey

At the next meeting Tim Grahamslaw will present a piece of work on Youth Online Survey with respect to the Ashton schools

Item 9: AOB

Nil

Date & time of next meeting: 14th May – Waterloo Children’s Centre