Area Coordination Management Meeting
Ashton

Time: 10.00am – 12.00pm
Date: 14th May 2009
Venue: YOT Team meeting Room, 31 Clarence Arcades

Present:

Tracy Wood -  Area Co-ordinator
Chris Thean  -  Neighbourhood Co-ordinator
Julie Waterhouse  -  SEWO
Pam Chadwick  -  Youth Service

Note taker:  Lindsay Patchett

Item 1: Welcome

Tracy welcomed all to the meeting

 Item 2: Apologies

Annie O’Malley, Penny King, Jane Dufty, Carl Kelsall, Robin Elms

Item 3: Notes of last meeting and matter arising

Item 7:

• Tracy secondment ends of the 18th November and she will be returning to the PCT.
• Bob Shaw – no formal job title as yet, due to job evaluation process
• Ameena Ahmed now in her new role
• Julie Lord’s secondment finished and she has now returned to Action for Children
• Jane-Ann Birkitt’s secondment ends 31st October 2009
• Kath Astley (SID) has moved to Ryecroft House
• Nick Ellwood has now joined the Commissioning Team

Item 4: Presentation – Children’s services provided by PCT

Deferred due to illness. Item to be rescheduled for next meeting

Item 5: Common Processes

Tracy briefly went through the current CAF figures

• Figures showed the usual August dip in CAFs carried out
• Overall trend – is slowly increasing
• Activity increasing – particularly in schools
• Jane-Ann has done an breakdown of reasons that the CAFs she has received where undertaken
  • Majority due to drugs/alcohol, domestic violence, adults with LDD
  • High number of special needs
  • 1/3 have 3 or more presenting issues
    

Item 6: Area Intervention Teams

• Feedback from Sinead Brophy to SMT on 14/09/09
• Several issues raised about report format – revisions are being made prior to formal publication
• Final report will be available mid/end October/generally available in November
• Jim is aiming for the initial members of the teams to be in place by January
• Teams will be small – certainly initially only willing volunteers will be included
• Seconded staff make up the teams – there will be a planned rotation for staff rather than long term secondments
• 4 teams – one in each area
• Team members will not be ‘case holders’ but have more of a sign-posting function
• Report under 6 headings

1. Implementation Group – a core team of Claire Bibby, Judith Grigg, Pat McKelvey, Catherine McKay and Lisa Lees will be charged with ‘putting the meat on the bones’ and developing an action plan
2. Locality Engagement
3. Local branding
4. Commissioning Approach
5. Operationalising teams – action plan to address this
6. Development programme for staff

Item 7 Children & Young People Plan

A discussion took place within the group. Tracy will summarise this and report the issues back to Ameena once those present agree the summary.

Item 8 Connexions Data

The team briefly looked at the connexions data – in Annie’s absence this will be carried forward for a more detailed discussion at the next meeting.

The borough figure for the end of July 2009 = EET 86.2%, NEET 9.8% and Unknown 4.2%

Item 9: Any Other Business

Chris Thean distributed summary of Tameside Regeneration Survey 2009 (St Peter’s Ward only). A copy of the Smallshaw Hurst summary will be sent out when available

Item 10 Date of next meeting

Thursday 19th November 2009 – Banyon room, St Peter’s Children’s Centre, Ashton.