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Disclosures of Personal & Prejudicial Interests. Minutes: In accordance with the Code of Conduct adopted by the City & County of Swansea, no interests were declared. |
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To approve & sign the Minutes of the previous meeting(s) as a correct record. Minutes: Resolved that the Minutes of the People Policy Development Committee held on 16 January 2019 be approved and signed as a correct record. |
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Supported Living - Current Arrangements to Engage Community Including Ward Members. (Presentation) Minutes: The Principal Officer Mental Health and Learning Disabilities supported by the Principal Officer – Prevention, Wellbeing & Commissioning provided a presentation on “Supported Living – Current Arrangements to Engage Community Including Ward Members”. The presentation outlined: · Supported Living and current arrangements to engage community including ward members; · The Supported Living development process; · Funding; · The minimum standards from care providers when dealing with neighbours and other members of the community; · How to deal with complaints; · Proposed future engagement. The Committee asked various questions, which the officers responded to accordingly. Topics centred around the following: · The current arrangements for engaging with the community (the arrangements for privately owned properties was unknown); · Clients with learning disabilities form the highest proportion of clients in Supported Living; · Whether risk assessments were undertaken; · Ward Members required sufficient information in order to allay residents’ fears at an early stage in order to manage the situation; · Planning restrictions / permission requirements including the planning restrictions for HMO’s; · The level of information that Ward Members require, eg address or location of property/premises, number of clients/residents, name of provider and contact details of Manager, broad outline of clients personal needs; · Members not to be involved in the initial process and no specific personal details of clients/residents would be divulged. The Chair thanked the Officer for the presentation. Resolved that: 1) The presentation be noted: 2) Final details for future engagement arrangements be presented at the next meeting. |
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Work Plan 2018-2019. PDF 94 KB Minutes: The Chair outlined the Work Plan for 2018-2019. Resolved that the Work Plan be noted. |