Minutes of Meeting
Wednesday 25th May 2016
People who were there: Ophelia Matthias, Emma Denton, Tanya Hawthorne, Rita and Albert Kinsey, Patricia Officer, Jo Seviour, Carrie Voyle, Zoe Donelan, Jill Honeybun, Teresa Faris, Shelley McCubbin, Stuart Outterside, Maria cook, Kym Anderson, Richard Creighton, Martin Lenaerts, Robert White, William Baker, Mark Handley, Dawn Harris, Teresa Burnage, Tracey Carus, Louise Osborne, Michelle Stickland, Madeleine Durie (chairing meeting) Florence Garland
Apologies: Jan Mills, Becky at Winward, Judith Clayton, Anna Lamerton, Tim Bryant
Minutes of the last meeting and matters arising
Page: money comes from District councils, not central government.
LIG communication money 2015/2016:
Opening balance: £2407.00
Closing balance: £2207.80
Finances are still healthy with hardly any money spent this year. Thank you to Jan who provided the venue free of charge. Thank you also to Choices Advocacy who provided the service (administration of LIG money) free of charge.
Expenses were petrol expenses for Rita and Albert.
Parents/carers are welcome to claim petrol expenses for LIG meetings. Please ask Flo for information and form if you wish to claim.
We agreed to keep the mileage rate at 40 pence per mile.
Jan is taking early retirement in the summer so she will be standing down as Chair of the LIG. Anyone interested in the post, please email Flo or Jan. Flo sent a note no the 25.5.2016 about what the role is. We will be holding elections at the next LIG meeting. All applications to Flo please (by email if possible) latest 15th June, 12 noon.
We might also need a new venue at some point as the group is getting fairly large. Flo will have a look around.
Next Hants LD Partnership Board meeting is on the 6th July 2016 .We will be working on “supporting carers and families” topic (we will have a workshop at next month’s meeting)
Transition update – Carrie Voyle
http://www.hampshirelearningdisabilitypartnershipboard.org.uk/uploads/attachment/1024/transition-new-ways-of-working.pdf
Timescale: September time
Good website for benefits:
· Carers UK
· Parents Voice
Direct Payment from Independent Lives – Teresa Burnage
Independent Lives are contracted by HCC to handle Direct Payments for anyone who needs that help.
A Direct Payment is a payment from the local authority (Social Services) or the NHS (this type ofDirect Payment is called a Personal Health Budget ).
A Direct Payment ismade directly to the person so that they can buy care and support services.
Direct Payments allow the person to make their own decisions about how care and support is delivered, giving more flexibility and greater choice and control over their life.
Many people who receive a Direct Payment choose to directly employ Personal Assistants who provide care and support in their home. Other people use their Direct Payment to buy agency care services.
A team of advisers are available via phone, text and email from 8am – 6pm Monday – Friday.
A recruitment service is available which means that checks can be made without giving personal information. DBC checks can be done as well.
There is a managing service is someone struggles with paperwork and internal payroll can be used as well. Criteria needs to be made in certain cases so please check!
Email for further information:
http://www.independentlives.org/
Hampshire county council day services (internal) and safer Place scheme – Tracey Carus
New Milton:
Launchpad is now working well with people based in the community (via community link, next to library). They moved there on the 4th April. Currently there is no telephone/computer BUT they are working on it right as we speak. A few teething problems but generally service users have settled well and people are busy in the community and are not spending as much time in the building.
There will be an open day in June.
There is a sensory room, a big room for arts/crafts/music sessions and a big changing Place facility.
There is no space to extend the building currently. They are missing a partner but working with the library.
Romsey and Waterside:
Launchpad process in September/October. This will be the second to last unit to go through transformation so the process should be fairly straight forward.
A newsletter to parents/carers has now been sent. There are taster days and information days for service users. There will be a lot of communication to parents/carers until Christmas and the process of person centred planning should start around that time too.
People should be left safe to be on Launchpad.
Ophelia asked about the Romsey satellite. No decision as yet but decision will be made on need.
The team is still looking for a keystone building in Totton. Saying this, they have now exhausted all current possibilities in Totton and are looking a little bit further afield (Romsey?). If you know of anything, please speak to Tracey and the team. There is no deadline to close the building but it is looking a little bit tired.
Safer Place scheme: Tracey said that the scheme will be revitalised. It is also vital for people on Launchpad to have this safety net. Tracey is working with a small team of people. She should have more news in September.
They will also work with on secret shoppers (maybe not so secret now!)
Thoughts from Jill: link to dementia friendly would be a good idea. Link to health (autism and so forth) might be also good.
Transforming care partnership (TCP) – Michelle Stickland and Louise Osborne
See presentation from Michelle.
We also did a small workshop.
We agreed:
· Being near shops
· Being near friends and family
· Having a bungalow and a garden
Michelle is working on capital and revenue bids. We will know by end of June if the money is coming forward.
Anything else:
Referendum on 23rd June. We gave some easy read information at the meeting.
The self advocacy day on 19th May was very well attended. It was in Winchester. Graham Allen, Jess Hutchinson and Cllr Fairhurst all went.
Music festival has been cancelled. Maybe next year…. Hal is working on it. Maybe it should be a one day festival to begin with and then extend it if all well.
Kym said that LD week is 20th June. Is anyone doing anything? Mencap is.
Jill would like dentistry at the next meeting. Flo will see what she can do with Michelle and book contract manager as soon as feasible.
Rita would like Client Affairs Team (CAT) to come (we are looking at 23rd November; to be confirmed).
Inclusive Art Exhibition and Performances at Furzey Gardens
Furzey Gardens Gallery and Minstead Training Trust will be hosting an inclusive art exhibitionwith displays from members of the Waterside Art Group as well asindividuals with learning and other disabilities. Come and see the Exhibition in the Gallery from June 13th to 17th June, as part of the New Forest Arts Festival.
The week's event will include artists in Residence throughout the week with performance art by students of Minstead Training Trust on the following days: Drumming demonstrations on Tues 14 June between 2pm and 3.30pm, a short drama performance repeated during the morning on Weds 15 June between 10.30am and 12.30am and Morris dancing demonstrations on Friday 17 June between 2pm and 3.30pm.
Demonstrations will take place informally with repeated performances between the times specified, for visitors to enjoy as part of their visit.
Free event. (Usual donation entrance to Furzey Gardens applies). No booking required. Please check beforehand.
2016
29 June (Ringwood)
20 July (Ringwood)
None in August
21 September (venue to be confirmed)
26 October
23 November
14 December (amended)
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