LEARNING DISABILITY DELIVERY PARTNERSHIP Notes of the Meeting: 21st March 2014 1 Welcome: Attendance attached. Apologies: Nicky Kynoch, Michelle Bradley, Karen Mangold, Terry Dorman, Elspeth Clayton, Sue Lee, Emily White, Ken Harvey, Chris Treacey 2 Minutes of the meeting held on 21st November 2013 All papers from meetings are on Internet - Minutes agreed. http://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/health-and-socialcare/adult-care/default.aspx The minutes were read and agreed as accurate. 3 Reports from:  Learning Disability Service feedback Sarah Cahill presented Transition’s Team project update.  To develop a new ‘Single Plan’ transitions pathway in line with new legislation.  It will include anyone who may be involved in a young person’s life from age 14 to 25 to ensure education & health work together to give a joinedup service to young people.  Council will publicise Local Offer  Working with young people pilot launched – feedback to be provided in September. Lucinda Moore informed:  Chris Treacey is working on reconfiguring employment services for people with learning disabilities.  Joint project with Groundworks and Housing has started.  Volunteering and work with Center Parcs, Groundworks, Mixed bag and The Hub Cafe  Job Centre Plus is planning a ‘Two Ticks’ employment forum in April to discuss how to improve employment for people with learning disabilities, employers with ‘Two Ticks’ will be showcasing – feedback at the next meeting.  Central Bedfordshire Voice groups Sandra Pearce gave update on Voice group meetings:  People have been talking about safeguarding, keeping safe and staying healthy.  People talked about Winterbourne View care home report.  POhWER had a ‘Keep Well, Keep Safe Keep Healthy’ conference on the 11th March in Dunstable, 1200 people went to it and everyone enjoyed themselves with nice food, dancing and shows.  It was a fun day, but there were some important messages to give everyone.  More people now want to join the Voice Groups after going to the conference.  Robin went to the Eastern Region Forum  Right Track  Martin and Annie went through their presentation (see the presentation)  Right Track was very shocked and sad to have to inform everyone at the meeting that Teresa Ring had died recently.  Teresa was there when Right Track started in 2006, and she was a friend and a director with Right Track and will be sadly missed by all.  Elizabeth Saunders suggested sending flowers.  The funeral will be on 1st April at All Nations Church Centre, Brickhill Drive, Bedford.  Annie and Sandra said that they would stay at the end of the meeting if anyone wanted to chat about Teresa. 3 4 Draft Learning Disability Specification Paul Groom gave an update on the proposed changes to service provider’s contracts which were made to ensure that service users had the best service from providers. Learning disability service providers provide really good service across East of England. Providers need to make sure that everybody’s voice heard. Paul suggested that the Voice Groups looked at the changes and gave feedback. Kaysie Conroy from Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (BCCG) gave an update regarding Winterbourne. The Winterbourne View Joint Improvement Programme that has been set up to make sure local areas get the right support and information, so that more people can live the lives that are right for them. The programme is paid for by the government through the Department of Health. The work is then led by the Local Government Association and NHS England. They report to the Winterbourne View Joint Improvement Programme Board. The 3 key areas of work were identified to improve the lives and services for people with learning disabilities and /or autism and behaviour that challenge services are:  Funding - Making sure your area understands what money is available to meet the needs of local people and what is available to develop the right services now, and in the future.  Commissioning - Making sure your area understands what services will be needed locally to meet the needs of People with a learning disability and/or autism with behaviour that challenges services. This is for people of all ages including children and young people, so that people can live locally.  Meet the June 2014 deadline to make sure that “everyone inappropriately in hospital will move to community-based support as quickly as possible and no later than 1 June 2014” (Transforming Care, Department of Health). 5 Health update: Community Dental Services Smile Award programme 2014 – update Outcomes from Keep Healthy stand at the POhWER Voice conference event on 11th March 50 people visited the Keep Healthy stall at the POhWER event on the 11th March. The Smile Award is a unique programme aiming to improve the oral health of adults with learning disabilities. The award is not a ‘one off’ but rather recognises the year on year achievement of promoting optimum oral health. There is the option of training only to equip people with the essential knowledge in oral health care to best support your residents and service users. Or people can participate in the full award programme where people are required to meet six - seven standards. At the end of the year people are then accredited with a certificate. The dates for the Oral Health Training are:  9th April 2pm to 4pm at Flitwick Health Centre  16th April 10am to 12am at Bedford Heights The Flitwick training session is a bigger venue and will have room to fit more people who want to come. The award is available to care homes in Bedfordshire and Luton including day centres, respite care homes and supported living and 22 settings achieved the Smile award last year. The main areas of the award focus on:  Policy implementation  Snacks  Individual oral health care  Raising awareness to staff, service users and their families If people would like to comment about any aspect of the service, please contact each clinic directly. If people would like further information please contact: The Dental Services Manager Community Dental Services Telephone: 01234 310244 5 6 Right Track recap Martin Hopewell and Annie Lawton from Right Track presented an update on work the group have done since the last meeting.  12 Right Track Volunteers worked about 400 hours with about 100 people.  Martin and Amelia worked with XBX – a group of people who use services and train social work students.  Denise found out what care homes are like for people who live in them.  6 volunteers are nearly ready to open a café 1 day a week in Houghton Regis.  Look at The Right Track website: www.righttrack.org.uk 7 Local Account for 2013/14 Local Account helps people to find out what we do in Social Care, how the money is spent, and who is using the service. The priorities set for the coming year are:  Building and securing the adult social care market  Strengthen customer focus, through improved professional standards and practice  Determine and deliver the Council's housing offer.  Prepare for future changes and the transformation of adult social care, housing and localised health provision, including the Care and Support Bill and Welfare Reform. These priorities are centred on the Council’s Medium Term Plan to “Promote health and wellbeing and protect the vulnerable” and include the following targets: 6  A zero tolerance approach to those who abuse vulnerable adults and we will continue to report our involvement in safeguarding activity  Provide an additional 50 extra care flats by 2014  Maintain the decent homes standard at 100% for the Council’s Landlord Services  30 (100% coverage) Village Care Schemes in operation by 2014  60% of Council commissioned dementia care should be of ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ by 2014  To offer everyone the choice of a personal budget Health Facilitation Service for adult social care support (100%) Please see the questionnaire attached and return it either: By email to [email protected] or by post to Liz Cray, Communications and Development Officer, Central Bedfordshire Council, Houghton Lodge, Houghton Close, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, MK Patricia Coker and her team will circulate A Local Account of Adult Social Care Services in Central Bedfordshire 2013. Elizabeth Saunders (Chair) requested that an easy-read version of the questionnaire be produced with Right Track for circulation to the LDDP and an extraordinary meeting be convened to present this. 8 Any questions or other business Nichola Keer, Lead Learning Disability Liaison Nurse will be leaving her job but will remain at Bedford Hospital. Another Liaison Nurse will be recruited. Stuart Webb passed on an invitation to the Health Facilitation Service event at the Rufus Centre on the 25th March 2014. People and their carers can hear about the work done this year around making sure everybody is included in the Health Screening Programmes. Health Facilitation Service telephone: 01234 310595. People agreed that Bedford Hospital does a very good job. James Gleave will be leaving Central Bedfordshire 7 Council soon and his replacement will attend future meetings to give updates around transport. A meeting regarding transport is to be arranged in May. People will talk about train stations and East-West bus routes, new bus stops with information regarding buses. People with disabilities do not need to book help for using trains. 9 Date of next meeting Tuesday 24th June 2014 10:30-12:30. Venue: Council Chamber, Priory House, Chicksands, SG17 5TQ Notes and papers from the Learning Disability Delivery Partnership meetings can be found at: http://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/healthand-social-care/adult-care/default.aspx 8