These are the minutes of the Cheshire East Partnership Board meeting for Adults with Learning Disabilities held on 28th September 2017

Welcome

Gill welcomed everybody to the meeting. We talked about the start time for our meeting and it was decided that this would be 10 o’clock. The Minutes from the July meeting were agreed. Lynn talked about the new format for the minutes. One set will be in easy read and one set for the officers which will be more detail.

Update on Health Checks

Sue Milne told us that the South Clinical Commissioning Group are making sure that all General Practitioners (Doctors) have signed up to deliver annual health checks for adults with a learning disability. Sue is the contact about this and will be doing a report for the Commissioning Group.

Andy Worth agreed to make the health check brochure into easy read. Tom will help with this.

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Update from sub-groups

South Partnership Board meeting:

Gill said that the South board talked about the future of

the board meetings and have produced a work plan of

subjects and areas that could be covered over the next

12 months:

Talks or visits from : The Police The Ambulance service Our local MPs Work Plan: LD Management (Dean Row/Emma Surtees) Supported Employment (Colin Jacklin) Personal Independent Payments Live Well One You Cheshire East (more focus for LD)

Healthy eating Smoking Alcohol

The Transforming Care Programme Independent Living Housing and Providers Friendships/relationships Our Website Personal Assistants Local Area Co-ordinators The GOLD Group Hate Crime Transition Assistive Technology and APPS Communication Plan

These are the minutes of the Cheshire East Partnership Board meeting for Adults with Learning Disabilities held on 28th September 2017

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Update from sub-groups

North Partnership Board meeting:

Lynn said that the North meeting discussed what

residents wanted from a Partnership Board . They are

keen to have small sub-groups called Task and Finish

groups to operate dealing with a particular issue.

General discussion about the Boards:

It was felt that amalgamating the South and the North groups together

would not be a good idea as this may not be what residents want. What

might work in the North might not work in the South. Andy and Glyn felt

that two smaller meetings were better for the service users and then

one main Partnership Board as we have now.

The group would like to have a proper Glossary of terms so

that everyone understands the acronyms used.

There is a lack of understanding on the purpose of our meetings in the

present form. We need new Terms of Reference. Then we could have a

recruitment drive. We have already started to look at our membership

lists and will do some checking. We would like a representative from an

Advocacy Group and from Healthwatch and for the Directors of the

Council and the Clinical Commissioning Groups to attend regularly.

Some officers and the Co-chairs are planning to go to the

Partnership Board meeting run by Cheshire West to see

how they do this. We were due to go to this meeting in

October, but we are now invited to go in December (8th).

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News and other things

Learning Disability Summit Lynn said that the Council wanted to organise an LD Summit. This would be for all adults with a learning disability who live in Cheshire East, their carers, their families, and all people who work with these residents. The organising of this event will start soon—with an event planned for early January. Staying Up Late: The Board members are passionate about the Staying Up Late campaign and would like to make sure that all adults with a learning disability can have the freedom to have a social life just like everybody else and stay out to go to all sorts of activities. The difficulties have been that their carers want to go back early because they have a work-shift that finishes.

A parent carer is concerned about the monitor-ing and checking the value of some packages and that the Council is getting good value for money.

The Board would like to discuss these points further.

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Members who came to the meeting

Thomas Clapperton Co-chair and self advocate Gill Welch Co-chair and parent carer Lynn Dobson Cheshire East Council Cllr Stewart Gardiner Deputy Portfolio Holder, Cheshire East Council Alison Ratcliffe Secretary, Cheshire East Council Janet Broster LD Service, Cheshire East Council Andy Worth LD Service, East Cheshire NHS Trust Pete Kelleher Service Manager, Care4CE, Cheshire East Council Cllr Jos Saunders Portfolio Holder for Adult Social Care, Cheshire East Council Glyn Withenshaw Parent Carer Sue Milne South Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group

People who said they could not come to the meeting:- Cllr. Janet Clowes Portfolio Holder for Adult Social Care Louisa Joyce Cheshire East Council, Transition Rob Walker Cheshire East Council, Commissioning Jackie Alexander Co-chair and parent carer Jill Broomhall Director of Operations Nichola Glover-Edge Director of Commissioning

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The last meeting for 2017

23rd November Starting at 10.00 am

The next meeting will be at: Ground Floor meeting room, Congleton Library, Market Square, Congleton, Cheshire CW12 1ET Please enter the building on the ground floor behind bus stops (white sliding door)

Contact Details:

Lynn Dobson

Lynn.dobson@cheshireeast.gov.uk Tel: 01625 374860

Rob Walker

Rob.walker@cheshireeast.gov.uk Tel: 01260 371097

Jackie Alexander

Co-Chair and Parent Carer

Tom Clapperton

Co-Chair and Self Advocate

Gill Welch

Co-Chair and Parent Carer

Alison Ratcliffe

Alison.ratcliffe @cheshireeast.gov.uk Tel: 01625 378209