Area Coordination Management Meeting

Denton, Droylsden and Audenshaw

Time: 10.00am
Date: Friday 16 January 2009
Venue: Greenside Children’s Centre

Present:

Bob Shaw Area  - Co-ordinator & Chair
Chris Harris  -  Connexions
Diane King  -  Youth Service
Lynn Barber  -  Area Children’s Centre Manager
Phil Massey  -  St. Stephens 
Tracy Rowe  -  Social Care (Assessment and Family Support Service) 
Lorna Grennan - PCT 
John Rogers  - Greenside Lane
Maureen Wallis  - EWS
Sally Dickin - YOT
Malcolm Knight -  LA 
Adrian Acres Consultant    

Note taker: Lindsay Patchett

Item 1: Welcome

Bob welcomed everyone to the meeting and thanked them for their attendance.
Introductions were made around the table.

Item 2: Apologies

Apologies received from Catherine Robertson, Sue Lennie

Item 3: Major Item: Early Intervention and Prevention

Adrian Acres introduced himself and gave details of his role as a consultant employed by the council to report on Early Intervention and Prevention.

Phase 1:

• Is information gathering and monitoring
• Mapping of services
• Gathering views regarding the kind of needs
• Looking at gaps
• Ideas around Prevention and Early Intervention

Adrian stressed that all discussions were confidential.

A discussion took place surrounding the subject of Early Intervention and Prevention. As this discussion and comments were confidential no notes were recorded on these minutes.

A questionnaire was completed by all members of the meeting and handed to Adrian Acres.

Item 4: Notes of last meeting and matter arising

Minutes of last meeting agreed as accurate.

Matters arising:

SID – Kath Astley is more than happy to give demonstrations of SID to any teams. Contact Kath direct to arrange.
Under the new structure SID and FIS sit together.

Item 7: Family Learning Proposal – No outcome known as yet.

Item 5: School Health Service Modernisation 2: Presentation

Deferred to next meeting.

Item 6: Common Processes

Bob distributed copies of Common Processes data and a discussion took place. The main points as follows:

• Most interesting is the number of people using JASPER to share information in December, which was higher this month the previous months - a marked increase.
• YOT team commenced inputting on JASPER in December after training so this could have affected the numbers
• Maureen reported that they were pushing the use of JASPER and making use of the management date from JASPER that is now available on request
• Chris also stated that Connexions were using management information on JASPER and had obtained printouts to show which practitioners were using JASPER. Consequently, Connexions were re-evaluating the use of JASPER and were able to address the use of JASPER with practitioners individually.
• There was a continuing mis-match in numbers between CAFs undertaken and those recorded on JASPER
• It is planned to continue the Common Processes workshops in local areas – feedback from managers would be most welcome.
• Maureen commented that new staff found the training useful, but more experienced staff felt that training was going over old ground
• Perhaps therefore training could be structured dependent upon experience
• Bob asked everyone to remind practitioners that completed CAFs should be forwarded to Jane-Ann Birkitt
• Do we tell parents we are submitting CAFs to Jane-Ann? - Bob confirmed that we should be informing parents
• It has emerged from the CAF workshops that whilst professionals know what’s going on, parents quite often don’t. This occurs when a CAF is not undertaken before the Child and Family meeting. The general rule is that common assessments should be undertaken before convening a child and family meeting.
• It was noted that some parents won’t engage until the Child and Family meeting.
  

Item 7: Reporting back on local networks

Deferred

Item 8: Dates of future meetings

27 March 2009 – 10am
Greenside Children’s Centre, Droylsden

Item 11: Any Other Business

None