SDC - Stratford-on-Avon District Council

Action Plan : Social Inclusion Statement (SDC)
Priority 1: Education, employment and training
Intervention
Task
By when
Resources
Maybird and
Bishopton
Gather information
from frontline
professionals & local
anecdotal intelligence.
January 2015
SDC
Orbit Employment
Support Officer
DWP
Deliver services
education,
employment and
training opportunities.
July 2015
Gather information
from frontline
professionals & local
anecdotal intelligence.
Deliver services to
improve education,
employment and
training opportunities.
Lighthorne
Heath
Potential
Funding
Resources
Partnership
Resources
Lead Partner
Measureable
outcome
Orbit and SDC
Report identifying
services required
to deliver
education,
employment and
training
opportunities.
SDC
Orbit Employment
Support Officer
Partnership
Resources
Orbit and SDC
Report and case
studies to SIP of
successful
interventions.
January 2015
SDC
Orbit Employment
Support Officer
DWP
Partnership
Resources
Orbit and SDC
Report identifying
services required
to deliver
education,
employment and
training
opportunities.
July 2015
SDC
Orbit Employment
support Officer
Partnership
Resources
Orbit and SDC
Report and case
studies to SIP of
successful
interventions.
Priority 2: Income and Debt work
Intervention
Task
By when
Resources
Alcester and
Henley-inArden
Expand CAB Reach Out
and Help (ROAH) to
relevant LSOA’s.
November
2014
ROAH
Southam and
Lighthorne
Heath
Expand CAB Reach Out
and Help to relevant
LSOA’s.
November
2015
ROAH
Potential
Funding
Resources
SDC
Orbit Community
Investment Grants
& External Grant
Funders
SDC
Orbit Community
Investment Grants
& External Grant
Funders
Lead Partner
Measureable
outcome
CAB, Orbit and
SDC
Presentation to
partnership from
CAB on ROAH
achievements.
CAB, Orbit and
SDC
Presentation to
partnership from
CAB on ROAH
achievements.
Priority 3: Social Isolation within Stratford-upon-Avon town
Intervention
Task
By when
Resources
Isolation and
wellbeing
work with
older
members of
the
community.
Understanding profile,
and identifying the
issues of older
residents and the
impact of isolation.
March 2015
Use community
feedback to help
design service to
reduce isolation (if
required).
June 2015
Deliver services/
interventions that
reduce isolation (either
directly, or indirectly).
September
2015
SDC
CAB ROAH
Age UK Warwickshire
Contact the Elderly
Municipal Charities
Orbit Housing
Public health/WCC *
Campaign to End
Loneliness- research
Health & Wellbeing
Board
Warks Observatory
Stratford SCAN
University of the 3rd
Age (U3A) - Heart of
England and Shottery
groups
Age UK befriending
project
Mens Shed, Stratford
SDC Citizen’s Panel
SDC
Age UK
Orbit Housing
Potential
Funding
Resources
Partnership
Resources
Lead Partner
Measureable
outcome
SDC
Report identifying
key facets
contributing to
social isolation of
older people
within Stratfordupon- Avon town
and the impact
upon health &
wellbeing.
Partnership
Resources
SDC
Report identifying
services/interventi
ons required to
reduce social
isolation of OP in
the defined
geographical area.
Stratford Town
Trust grant
application
Healthy Stratford
Grant
Orbit Community
Investment Grants
SDC
Report and case
studies to SIP of
successful
interventions/
services
* Work on ‘Tackling the Health Burden of Social Isolation and Loneliness’ – Lead officers Dr Charlotte Gath , Kate Ray and Claire
Hall
Priority 4: Monitoring, impact measurement and creating greater understanding
Intervention
Task
By when
Resources
Develop a
core group of
partners to
monitor the
progress of SI
work and
monitor the
impact.
Establish Stratford-onAvon District Social
Inclusion Partnership.
July 2014
Monitor progress of
SIS Action Plan.
Research
impact or
rural isolation
and options
for targeted
work to
reduce this.
Design and
commission research
into rural isolation.
Potential
Funding
Resources
Lead Partner
Measureable
outcome
SDC and Partners
SDC
Annually on
anniversary of
adoption by
SDC.
SDC and Partners
SDC
Prepare
research brief
for Sept 2015.
SIP
Group of key local
partners
established and
TOR agreed.
Annual report on
performance
against targets in
SIS Action Plan
and impact of
each intervention.
Brief completed
and agreed by
SIP.
Partnership
Resources
SIP
Prepare summary of
initiatives to reduce
rural isolation.
Carry out
research and
report on
findings Jan
2016.
Report by May
2016.
SDC
SDC
Research
completed.
SDC
Healthy Stratford
Grant
Warwickshire
Rural Community
Council
WREP
SDC
SIP agree report
and
recommendations.
Priority 5: Boosting the alternatives to high cost credit
Intervention
Task
By when
Resources
Support to
credit unions
to
re-establish
accessible
financial
services into
the District.
Attend WFIP and
influence Countywide
agenda on credit union
development.
Ongoing
SDC
WCC
Develop proposal to
SIP and SDC Members
on preferred approach
to boosting
alternatives to high
cost credit.
March 2015
SDC
Potential
Funding
Resources
Partnership
Resources
& External Grant
Funding
Financial Inclusion
Partnership grant
bid
Partnership
Resources
Lead Partner
Measureable
outcome
SDC
Report identifying
current coverage
by credit unions
and suggested
model for county
SDC
Brief completed
and agreed by SIP
Priority 6: Current initiatives
Area
Task
Working alongside
older people and
associated
organisations/
community groups
across the District,
to identify need
and provide
information,
support and
services.
Work in
partnership
to create
accredited
dementia friendly
environments
within
SDC and identified
locations across
the
district.
By when
September 2015
Resources
SDC Dementia
friendly task &
finish group
Warks. CC
dementia team
Alzheimer’s
Society
Dementia cafes
NHS
Guideposts Trust
Local businesses
Potential funding
resources:
Healthy Stratford
grant
Town Councils
Potential
Funding
Resources
Lead Partner (s)
Measureable
outcome
SDC
WCC
NHS
SDC formally
accredited as a
dementia friendly
organisation.
Shipston-on-Stour
formally
accredited as a
dementia friendly
town
Alcester formally
accredited as a
dementia friendly
town.
To work alongside
the six Senior
Citizen’s Action
Networks (SCAN)
to develop the
existing network
and to increase
membership and
opportunities for
older people to
influence local
provision.
June 2015
SDC
SCAN
WCC- area team
Town Trust
Warks Older
People’s Forum
(WOPF)
Older People in
Action, Warwick
District (OPA)
West Midlands
Later Life Forum
(WMLLF)
Age UK Warks.
To work with
partners to
develop and
enhance the new
community
transport service,
UBUS, operating
across the district,
with a focus upon
vulnerable
communities.
June 2015
To work within the
community to
identify gaps in
existing provision
for local older
people and to
enable action to
be taken and/or to
share good
practice and
initiatives.
June 2015
(NB In addition
to Priority 3)
WMLLF
Age UK
Town Trust
Comic Relief
SDC
Presentation to
SIP,
in co-operation
with SCAN
members, to
highlight
successful
interventions and
opportunities to
improve social
inclusion of older
residents.
SDC
WCC
Linc. CC
Town Trust
SDC
Presentation/
report to SIP to
evaluate the
progress of the
service one year
after
commencement.
SDC and partners
SDC
Report and case
studies to SIP of
successful
interventions.