Area Co-ordination Management Meeting

Stalybridge, Dukinfield & Mossley

Time: 2.00pm
Date: Thursday 12th November 2009
Venue: Mossley Youth Base

Present:

Bob Shaw Area Co-ordinator
Karen Chan ATM Children’s Social Care
Maurice Chadwick Youth Services
Bernadette Hyland Connexions
Sue Collins Arlies School
Linda Sidebottom New Charter 
Rosemary Seeley PCT

Note taker: Bob Shaw

Item 1: Welcome

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

Item 2: Apologies

Christina Wills, Pauline Daniels, Anne Short, Liz Price, Craig Stone,

Item 3: Notes of last meeting and matter arising

Notes of the last meeting were agreed as a true record of the meeting and there were no matters arising not on today’s agenda

Item 4: Common Processes

Summary sheets were available for members and the emerging patterns of use of common processes by practitioners were discussed. The full data is available in the embedded document.

Item 5: Early Intervention and Prevention Teams: update

The meeting discussed the very recent paper produced by Sinead Brophy consultants. This is available now at www.tameside.gov.uk/cypp/earlyintervention along with a draft Service Specification. The latter was not available to the meeting.

• Members would like to see clarity on the structure – how, what and where – the nuts and bolts.
• There is a need to develop a sense of the relationship between existing team leaders and the new team leaders but specifically to enable problem solving around
  • Supervision of professional staff in integrated teams
  • Who manages who
  • Early conflict resolution between TL
• Message from schools – keep it simple; keep bureaucracy out of it!
• The arrival of the new teams heightens the role of common processes. Is there not a need for everyone to be sensitive to what common processes offers as a means by which we can be all become clear about the processes/systems we are following? Do we need to re-launch/re-badge common processes as the script we all follow? This could coincide with ContactPoint implementation.
• Members felt that there would remain issues about thresholds for intervention between EI teams and Safeguarding Services and this will need clarifying.
• Consider creating space for managers and practitioners to meet – maybe a team leader/managers group; and/or a ‘practitioners not in an EI team’ group. This need only be six monthly and would serve to support reviews of implementation 

Item 6: Grow and Eat project: update

Linda presented the team with an update of the project:
Key points include:

• An open event with consultation on what kind of things groups wanted to grow has been held and will be built into the project as a regular feature.
• Groundwork have been commissioned to work with the group to develop the plot and leave the growers in a position that will enable them to become sustainable. They are bringing some extra delivery on container and small garden planting to the project. We all hope this project will continue after the funding, but the residents need to be trained to take this on board.
• Visits to other plots have been arranged by Groundwork to show the residents group different aspects of multi access users.
• Design for the plots is well on the way, we hope to have the growing plots on the ground this winter ready for spring planting. So although nothing planted in the ground yet there has been a focus on set up
• Partners meeting held to sort out SLA/permission for use from Youth Service/access for groups. (ongoing –end Nov)
• The group have delivered seed sowing sessions with Youth Base, Children’s Centre and community. The horticulturalist, Anestasea, discussed soil types and how to plant seeds.
• A Water outlet developed at the Youth Base
• A data base interested families has been started.
• Cook and Eat sessions held October:
• Children Centre – pumpkin muffins and Young People made buns for the Halloween Party. They were enjoyed by all.
• One of the issues has been setting up costs. Some items need to be purchased and can’t be done via invoice. Receipts are obtained for everything, but the residents do not have surplus cash in their pockets. MERA are using their residents’ group funds to support initial costs.
  
  

Item 7: Health Profile

Bob provided, for the information of the team, a health profile for Tameside produced by the NW Public Health Observatory.

Item 8: AOB

Bob thanked members for their attendance.

There was no other business

Item 7: Date of next meeting

No further meetings