Agenda and minutes

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Disclosure of interests – Chris Holley.

The Panel agreed the notes as an accurate record of the meeting.

Alex Williams, Head of Adult Services and Steve Porter / Jane Harries, Housing

 

Alex Williams, Head of Adult Services outlined the approach to Prevention.  Steve Porter from Housing also attended for this item to answer questions on Supporting People.

 

Information, Advice and Assistance Strategy

 

Discussion points:

 

·         Concern about access to Social Services pages from front page of Council website

·         Panel would like to know more about the DEWIS information platform

 

Actions:

 

·         Letter to be sent to Cabinet Member for Service Transformation and Business Operations concerning access to Social Services pages on the website

·         Brief presentation on DEWIS platform to be scheduled for a future meeting.

 

Local Area Coordination

 

Discussion points:

 

·         Risk to the sustainability of the approach due to time limited partnership funding

·         Performance data to be developed to show the contribution of Local Area Coordinators.  Panel to be kept informed on progress.

 

Adult Family Group Conferencing

 

Agreed:

 

·         Panel would like more detail on this change in approach and how it works.

 

Actions:

 

·         Alex Williams to provide a copy of the Safeguarding Member Induction Training for the 2 co-optees for information

·         Alex Williams to provide more detail to the Panel on section 6 of the Prevention report, particularly 6.4 and 6.5

·         Alex Williams to provide some scenarios to help the Panel understand Adult Family Group Conferencing.

 

 

Commissioning Strategy

 

Discussion points:

Commissioning Strategy to be developed after Prevention Strategy agreed.  Work on the Commissioning Strategy will commence early in the new year.

Financial Implications

 

Discussion points:

 

The Panel feels it would be useful to use a pilot approach when shifting resource from more formal forms of care to a more prevention/early intervention approach.

 

 

 

 

Presentation by Sara Harvey, Programme Director

 

This item was postponed to a future meeting. 

 

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Actions:

 

·         Reschedule ‘Overview of Western Bay Programme’ to meeting on 21 November 2017.  Include ‘Governance’ as part of the item

·         Add ‘Presentation on DEWIS platform’ to future work programme.  (Provisionally added to 16 January 2018 meeting)

·         Send letter to Cabinet Member following the meeting for information.