HEALTH, SOCIAL CARE & WELL-BEING PLANNING

For all information regarding the voluntary sector Health, Social Care and Well Being and various special interest networks, please go to the new Pembrokeshire Networking Website.

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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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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