HEALTH, SOCIAL CARE & WELL-BEING PLANNING

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Health, Social Care & Well-being Network Event

16th October 2008

10:00 am - 2:pm

'Funding and commissioning'

The next Network Event is being planned for 16th October 2008, where Sarah Williams, Director of Primary CAre Commissioning, Pembs LHB, and Mark Lewis, Director of Finance, PCC, will attend to give us an update from our Statutory partners regarding funding and commissioning for the coming year.

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Health, Social Care & Well-being Network Event

8th July 2008

Haverfordwest Cricket Club

10:00am - 2:00pm

'Showcasing the Voluntary Sector'

A very successful Network Event iwas held on 8th July, with the intention of promoting the Voluntary Sector to our Statutory Partners. The day focussed on 4 fairly short voluntary sector presentations to officers from the County Council (including Jon Skone, Director of Social Care and Housing), Local Health Board and NHS Trust, with the intention of educating them about the diversity and capability of the sector. There was also a Keynote address from Jon Skone, who gave us an update on what is happening within his Directorate.

Click on the links below to access the Powerpoint presentations given on the day.

Investing in Volunteers - James Pollock, Age Concern Pembrokeshire

Delivering public services - Sue Leonard, Chief Officer, PAVS

Jon Skone,Director, Social Care and Housing, PCC

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Request for help

Theatr Fforwm Cymru are looking for new premises, probably in the Haverfordwest area and are interested to hear from any organisation who might be interested in sharing facilities. Ideally, the set up would be individual offices but a shared meeting room/kitchen.

If any group is currently looking for premises or knows anyone who maybe in a similar position, please contact Theatr Fforwm directly on 01348 873805 or by email info@theatrfforwmcymru.org.uk

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Health, Social Care & Well-being Network Event

24th April 2008

Havefordwest Cricket Club

10:00am - 2:00pm

'Health & Social Care'

At this event Ian Scale, NPHS, introduced the plans to implement the new Health, Social Care & Well-being Strategy 2008 - 11(on behalf of Pam Owen, Health Challenge Pembrokeshire).  We also found out about Pembrokeshire's plans for Unscheduled Care within the county from the Local Health Board. It was a very well attended Event, and a full synopsis will be provided within the Network Newsletter, and copies of the presentations made are available to download below.

Health Challenge Pembrokeshire - Presentation by Ian Scale (NPHS) on the new Health, Social Care and WellbeingStrategy 2008-2011.

Unscheduled Care Pembrokeshire- Presentation by Iain Robertson-Steel (Pembrokeshire Local Health Board)

We are currently looking for nominations for Representatives from the Voluntary Sector, if you are interested in becoming a representative please view the nomination form and details on the link below:

Nomination form & details

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Substance Misuse Strategy for Wales 2008-18

A copy of the Substance Misue Strategy for Wales can be found on the link below:

http://new.wales.gov.uk/topics/housingandcommunity/consultation/workingtogether/?lang=en

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Health & Social Care Ministerial Meetings

The Welsh Assembly Government’s Voluntary Sector Scheme makes provision for twice yearly meetings between representatives of the relevant voluntary sector networks and each of the Cabinet Ministers covering their areas of responsibility.

Dates of last meetings    10th December 2007 & 17th April 2008

Date of next meeting - available soon.  

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Minister's focus on public services.

Andrew Davies, the Minister for Finance and Public Service, had his first meeting with the third sector networks under the auspices of the National Assembly Voluntary Sector Scheme in January.  The meeting focussed on the 3rd Sector's contribution to the public service reform agenda, with particular reference to its role in citizen engagement, partnerships and commissioning, service delivery and scrutiny. 

The next half yearly meeting will focus on how the actions relating to third sector involvement in public services will be implemented. 

The next meeting date is yet to be announced.

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Health, Social Care & Well-being Network Event

'Representation'

The first network event of the calendar year was held in the Bloomfield Centre on 24th January 2008.  The theme for the day was ‘Representation’.  Fiona Walder from PAVS gave us an enlightening talk on ‘The Bigger Picture of Representation’ - looking at the background, how we arrived at our current position and concluding with her thoughts for the future.  Sally Davies and Lee Hind gave us an insight into the support and training available to representatives through PAVS and in the workshops we looked at how these services can be developed to better suit our users’ needs. 

The audit of current reps is available on the link below.  The process of re-election of strategic / planning group representatives will begin in March 2008, full details will be included in the February edition of our ‘Network News’ newsletter.

Audit of Reps

If you have any queries or are interested in becoming a network representative then please contact Michelle at PAVS on 01437 769 422 or email:

michelle.copeman@pavs.org.uk

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PCC & LHB Small Grants Programme 2007- 08

For those interested in smaller amounts of funding, information on the joint Local Health Board /Pembrokeshire County Council Social Care & Housing Small Grants Scheme will be made available from PAVS on a yearly basis.

This year the joint agency gave priority to applications for funding under the scheme which supported some of the core business elements. Including:

• Supporting hospital discharge
• Supporting prevention of admission to hospital
• Supporting carers
• Supporting people to be independent
• Supporting people to live in their own homes
• Supporting people to be responsible for own health

The closing date for the applications was the 15th February 2008.

Details of the 2008/ 2009 funding will be posted here as soon as they are available.

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Community Care Commissioning Plan

In line with WAG guidance, PCC Social Care and Housing has recently developed a Commissioning Plan for Older Persons Services. In order to meet the requirements of the NSF for Older People, this plan now needs to be developed into a Partnership Plan. Through the Adult Coordinating Group, comments have been requested from all partner agencies.

To view or download the Plan in full, please click here

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Building Strong Partnerships Event

A successful event was held at Pembrokeshire College on 3rd July, almost 50 people attended to hear a number of excellent speakers.

The speakers have kindly agreed to have the presentations placed here online for those who missed the event, or for any participants who did not want to take a paper copy of the presentations.

Keynote speaker John Pepin - Presentation and Collaboration Paper

John is an accomplished non-profit Chief Executive, Board Member and consultant with significant experience in the voluntary sector. John has developed his approach to partnership working through years of practical experience, combined with extensive research on collaborative working in the third sector.

Information Sharing Eira Owen-Frazer

Eira was originally seconded from the South Wales Police to work as the Information Sharing Officer for Cardiff Children & Young People’s Partnership. In that role, she succeeded in working with partners across all sectors to establish and implement practical information sharing protocols. More recently, she has advised on information governance as part of the Care First initiative. Her presentation will look at the key barriers to information sharing and how these can be overcome.

Case Studies

Age Concern Swansea - Presentation

Age Concern Swansea are delivering an exemplar Hospital Discharge Service in partnership with the Local Authority and Health Trust

DAWN Partnership - Presentation

The DAWN Partnership is a multi-agency and cross-sector partnership in North Wales set up to prevent re-offending by providing an integrated package of support and training to their clients

All presentations are saved as a powerpoint, the Collaboration Paper is a PDF document.

If anyone would like a paper copy of any of the above please email Louise Walters on training@pavs.org.uk

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BUILDING STRONG BRIDGES

In October 2000 the Minister for Health and Social Services announced a £3m programme over 3 years to meet the cost of employing health and social care facilitators in all County Voluntary Councils (CVCs) in Wales.
The Health and Social Care Facilitator working in PAVS provides support to the Voluntary Sector to develop and sustain strong partnerships within the sector and strengthen links with statutory providers.
The Health and Social Care Facilitator is employed to promote joined up thinking, acting as a bridge that links together the Assembly, Welsh Council for Voluntary Action, PAVS, Local Health Board, Local Authority, Health Trust and the Voluntary Sector. This will help to produce more effective strategies and so more responsive services to the community.

The post will help enhance the voice of the voluntary sector as equal partners in the development of local health strategies and partnership working in Pembrokeshire.

The aim of the post is to:

• Increase participation of voluntary sector with the Local Health Board
• Provide support to the voluntary sector and carer representative on the Local Health Board.
• Work with new and existing health based alliances
• Develop and support local Health and Social Care networks
• Promote the role and contribution of the voluntary sector to other Health and Social Care agencies
• Identify local training needs
• Support partnership working to assess and address local health and social care needs