Area Coordination Management Meeting

Ashton

Minutes

Time: 10.00am - 12.00noon 
Date: Thursday 19th July 2007
Venue: Portland Centre, Ashton

Present:

• Sue Wilson - Primary Schools Rep
• Mary Clowrey - Education Welfare Service
• Jane-Ann Birkett - Secondary Schools Rep & Chair
• Annie O'Malley - Connexions
• Susan Garnett - Area Coordinator
• Julie Lord - Area Coordinator

Note Taker: Julie Lord

Item 1: Welcome

Jane welcomed everyone to the meeting

Item 2: Apologies

• Pam Chadwick - Youth Service
• Jane Dufty - Inclusive Services

Item 3: Notes of last meeting and matter arising

CAF Wall Chart

A slight amendment is to be made so the wall chart is nearly ready to be distributed.

Jasper Training

Jane had attended the training and gave positive feedback.

CAF

Information as being collated about the use. Connexions are now using Jasper.

Change for Children meetings

It has been suggested from the other AC groups that two meetings in each area at different times of the day in the Autumn term may be appropriate. Sports Development & Children's Centres will be doing presentations at the meetings.

Action from the last minutes: Julie to contact Pam Chadwick re feedback from voluntary agencies.

Item 4: Progress of Action Plan

Discussion: Sue went through the progress which has been made on the area action plan. It was agreed that in future progress would be typed in italics and the document distributed to members with the minutes.

The group had a discussion re the publicising of activities.

Conclusions: There was agreement in the group that coordination of publicity was an issue.

Item 5: Integrated Services for Schools-Stamford High School

Discussion: The aim is to look at all the different services going into school and identify which services are working with each young person. Jane has identified a list of agencies (13) that go into Stamford . There are a number of agencies working with the same young person and it was felt it would be useful to map this in some kind of way.

There was also a discussion about having a common referral process which could be used pre CAF. Sue said that Area Coordinators have been looking at different referral systems with a view to progressing a common referral system.

Item 6: JAR Feedback

Discussion: Julie informed the group of the main points from the JAR feedback.

Conclusions: The group commented it would have been useful for C&YP's files to be looked at as part of the mock JAR.

Item 7: AOB

Staff Directory

Discussion: The template from the Staff Directory has not been completed by some of the schools and services. There was a request for members of the group to remind colleagues to complete.

Children's Social Care

Issues regarding Young People aged 15: There is an issue in some areas that cases are being closed for some young people (who are not looked after) before their 16 th birthday, or referrals are not being taken. It has also been noted that Children's Social Care staff are not attending some C&F meetings in areas. Nina Chaudhry had responded to the issues and Susan read the responses. The group were asked to contact individual managers or Nina if there are any issues. Nina had requested some information about these scenarios, so that she could look into it. Susan reiterated the need for good communication and relationships.

Conclusions: Annie said that Connexions were receiving 2-3 young people per year from these circumstances. The group agreed that the pilot at Stamford may be a good way of communicating when cases were being referred on or in some cases closed

Parent Support Strategy

Julie informed that the draft strategy has been written and will be out for consultation soon.

Children's Fund

There has been an announcement that C.F. will receive funding for a further three years. As the funding is now part of the Local Area Agreement there will a be commissioning process for this funding and existing projects will not automatically get further funding.

Item 8: Date of next meeting

27th September 2007 - 10.00-12.00 - St Peters Children's Centre

Conclusions: Some members had Rosehill as the venue for this meeting.

Glossary

• ACMT - Area Co-ordination Management Team
• APIR (profile) - Assessment, Planning, Implement and Review
• BEST - Behaviour and Education Support Team
• BIP - Behaviour Improvement Programme
• CAF - Common Assessment Framework
• CAMHS - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
• CF - Children's Fund
• CLASS
• COLT - Consolidation of Learning Team
• CYP - Children and Young People
• CYPSP - Children and Young People Strategic Partnership
• DfES - Department for Education and Skills
• E2E
• EAL - English as an Additional Language
• EBSD - Emotional, Behavioural and Social Difficulties
• ECM - Every Child Matters
• EMA - Education Maintenance Allowance
• EWO - Education Welfare Officer
• EWS - Education Welfare Service
• GONW - Government Office for the North West
• NEET - Not in Education, Employment or Training
• PA(s) - Persistent Absence (in Education Welfare)
• PCT - Primary Care Trust
• PRU - Pupil Referral Unit
• SEN - Special Educational Needs
• SID - Service Information Directory
• T3SC - Tameside Third Sector Coalition
• TRASST - Traveller, Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support Team
• VCF - Voluntary, Community, Faith
• YOT - Youth Offending Team