Minutes of Meeting

Wednesday 11 December 2013

People who were there: Florence Garland (HCC), Anthea Groves (West Hampshire CLDT), Judith Kutsenyo (west Hampshire CLDT), Jerome O’Connor (Choices Advocacy), Emma Denton (LIG rep, member), Tanya Kiff (LIG rep, member), David Smith (New Forest Mencap), Iga Marczak (HCC), Rita and Albert Kinsey (parents/carers), Teresa Faris (Parents of Minstead resident and New Forest Mencap), Jan Mills (LIG Chair – SFHT), Sarah Chatley (Choices Advocacy), Martin de St Aubin (Helene care Ltd), Della Beach (HCC), Mike and Sam (members).

Apologies: Mary Bergin, Laura Lowe, Martin Lenearts, Madeleine Durie, Jo Olford, Andrea Fawcett, Jacqui Blackman and Ophelia Matthias

Minutes of the last meeting and matters arising

Minutes approved

Group formation/membership: the group agreed to carry on meeting every month as if every two months, you can miss something important and lose the momentum. There is generally no LIG meeting in August.

We need more members who use services and we need all our day services involved. It is difficult for people to come from the Day services because they have to wait for a staff member to be free to take them and transport may not always be available. We can get a rota to support people with transport to the LIG meetings and we need all the LIG members to help out. We said that this should be sorted by the end of March. Mike said he knew someone who lives in the support service in Greatbridge Road in Romsey who may want to come : Della will talk to them.

Flo will ask Madeleine if any service user at Minstead would like to be involved with the LIG.

Mrs B from Romsey might want to come. Flo can give a lift. Della to talk to her.

Tanya said that she knew another person who uses services (KF) who might want to come.

Flo has resent the LIG leaflet. Please distribute widely.

Transformation in the day services will be happening from January 2014 and Flo has booked Alison Froude the Transformation Manager to come and talk to the LIG. might want to come.

Conference: Jan and Lorna Wise met with the Head of Learning Disability teaching at Totton College. They have all agreed to have a Conference on Abuse/Mate/Hate crime and Safer Place scheme. This will be for teachers and tutors from schools and colleges in the area. We want to help them learn about hate crime and teach this to their students so they are more aware od what it is like for people who experience hate and mate crime. The conference will be on 4th July. The LIG reps from the yellow and orange LIGs will work on this together and be involved in a workshop at the conference.

Mike remembered about being bullied about 10 years ago. Jan reminded people to always tell someone if you are bullied yourself or see anyone else bulliked.

Finances/Money

Finances are difficult for everyone even though the recession started a few years ago. Provider services will have to pay for every staff member to have a pension from next year. There was a court case about a staff member having to be paid minimum wage for sleepin hours. This will cost a lot of money. It is very difficult for charities to find more money for all these things at the moment when the HCC is also having cuts.

HCC is working on doing things to prevent people needing more support as well as savings.

Choices is moving out of their current office because it will be cheaper. The staff will also be “hot desk-ing” which means that people will not have their own desk/computer in the office. They will be sharing. HCC does this already in some offices.

Anthea said that the health team will be moving to the Totton Hub with the LD Team from April. As well as saving money, they will be all in the same office.

Health matters

Anthea said that there is a project under way to work with the GPs (in particular annual health checks). They will work more strategically.

We talked about screening: a lot of people with learning disabilities do not get screened and some people are terrified of needles. It takes training and time.

Dementia clinic has changed – multi assessment is done at once and the clinic can see 4 or 5 people each day. GPs are referring people as soon as they see changes these days.

We are not sure if health checks for carers has started yet.

Annual health checks should be one hour (2 half an hour appointments). GPs get paid extra for this.

Events for the LIGs

We liked the safeguarding session. It might be good to have Alison again next year.

People would like to have sessions on issues about benefits/PIP – Flo/Jan organising for February meeting.

Key Ring will be coming in January 2014. There are pilots of this scheme in Totton and Eastleigh.

If you would like to learn about anything else, please speak to Flo or Jan

Anything else:

Iga was wondering if we had any One Stop Information Shop around.

PCP at Choices Advocacy has a huge range of activities. Sarah said that the One Stop Information Shop is the way to go.

Time banking is good community help all round.

Carers Together has advocacy for carers. Please do ask if you need details.

2014 meetings:

15 Jan, 19 Feb, 19 March, 16 April, 14 May, 18 June, 16 July, none in August, 17 Sept, 15 October, 19 November, 17 December

Merry Christmas and

Happy New Year 2014

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