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Archive for November, 2009

Cornwall Strategic Partnership Executive Board, 25th Nov

Nov 30

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Mark Richardson attended the meeting at the Primary Care Trust, Sedgemoor Building, St Austell.  The main areas of discussion were:

  • Renaming the new ‘Public Services Group’ as the ’Public Sector Board’
  • Input from ‘Design of the Times’ Cornwall
  • Input from Cornwall Council’s Strategic Intelligence Unit
  • Local Area Agreement, Year 3 funding allocations
  • Comprehensive Area Assement report
  • Initial report from the new CSP priorties task group
  • Proposals about climate and energy partnership structures

Contributions were as follows:

  • Have now established remit and purpose of new ‘Public Sector Board’ to which it is clear we will not be invited
  • Sector is well represented on new Priorities task group and is influencing the emerging proposals (e.g. the inclusion of resilience)
  • I will be sector’s representative on the Finance task group that will make decisions on the LAA year 3 spending.

Forthcoming items:

  • Final report of Priorities task group and decision by CSP board
  • CSP constitution review
  • Decisions of Finance task group

Children’s Trust Board(CTB)-November 26th 2009

Nov 26

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Main areas of discussion

  • Ofsted improvement action plan:- Richard Hubbard, Interim Director Children’s services authority (DCSA), comments that issues around lack of clarity, poor communication and variable compliance need to be addressed. One of the first actions has been to re-align the line-management arrangements for acute & complex services to ensure there is a direct line to the DCSA. The improvement action plan will be monitored by an Improvement board which will be independently chaired by someone appointed by the DCSF. Ofsted will review safeguarding in March but ‘Mystery Shopper’ activity will take place prior to the review.
  • LAA (Local Area Agreement)funding:- Board agree to proposal for continuation funding for children’s block of the area based grant for 2010/11. A task group from the CTB has been set up to look at the Performance reward grant element of the LAA funding to develop sound proposals around spend linked to improvement plan.
  • Serious Case Review (SCR) feedback:- A SCR is held when a child or vulnerable adult dies or suffers serious harm as a result of abuse or neglect. The SCR is to identify whether there are any lessons to be learned and to feed back their findings. The most recent SCR, identified common themes. - losing focus on child/vulnerable adult, - poor assessment and analysis of risk of harm, -issues around thresholds, -poor information sharing, -not following child protection procedures. 

Information items

  • Building schools for the future
  • Child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) up-date

Issues the voluntary sector need to respond to are ;

  • how well is the common assessment framework  understood?

Environment Kernow November 13th 2009

Nov 13

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Ian Jones attended.

Main areas of discussion were:

• Agree final Terms of Reference
• Project Group for LAA reward funding
• Environmental Skills Network
• Climate/Energy Resilience Structure
• Anaerobic Digestion on Farms

Issues for the next meeting include:

• Work Plan
• Climate/Energy Resilience Group
• Cornwall environmental strategy
• LAA outcomes

Issues the VCS need to respond to are:

• Ensure VCS are involved delivering LAA outcomes delivered in 2010