Agenda and minutes

Partnership and Regeneration Scrutiny Committee - Tuesday, 22nd November, 2016 2.00 pm

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Contact: Mrs. Mairwen Hughes 

Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies

Minutes:

As noted above.

2.

Declaration of Interest

To receive any declaration of interest from any Member or Officer in respect of any item of business.

Minutes:

Councillor Jeff Evans declared a personal interest with regard to item 4.

3.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 73 KB

To submit, for confirmation, the minutes of the meeting held on 26 September, 2016.

Minutes:

The minutes of the meeting held on 26 September, 2016 were confirmed as correct.

4.

Scrutiny opinion on the options for re-modelling the Youth Service pdf icon PDF 686 KB

To submit a report by the Head of Learning.

Minutes:

Submitted – the report of the Head of Learning in relation to the above.

 

It was reported that as a result of the Corporate Plan and the needs of the service, a detailed review of the Youth Service was carried out from 2013/14 and five options were identified for the future development of the service.  Different scenarios were identified which could be delivered with between 28% and 67% efficiency savings. An extensive consultation was carried out with over 1,000 young people during the autumn of 2015.  With the remaining options, a Youth Conference was held on the 24th September, 2016 and 54 young people attended, with a cross section of the 11 to 25 age group from all parts of the Island.  The service options were also presented to staff in the Staff Seminar on the 8th October, 2016.

 

In 2013/14 the Lifelong Learning were tasked to find possible cuts of between 10% and 60% in the youth service budget; the net budget for the Youth Service at the time was £560,170.  A breakdown of the potential cuts models/options were highlighted within the report. 

 

During the second consultation the following issues were highlighted :-

 

·           The two youth clubs for young people who have special educational needs should be kept open;

·           No support for lunchtime accreditation clubs;

·           They were unwilling to travel to a town based if the village club closed;

·           The clubs should be run by qualified/experienced youth workers, not volunteers;

·           Small youth clubs should not be closed down completely in order to keep the large clubs open twice a week;

·           It is important that youth workers speak Welsh;

·           It is important to have a youth worker in every school;

·           They were angry/disappointed that the Council was making cuts to the youth service.

 

The Principal Youth Worker said that it is considered that there are risks within the remodelling due to the changes to the part-time staff posts and losing qualified staff with substantial experience.  In addition, the same provision will not be available to young people in rural communities, although contact with Youth Workers will be more accessible as they will be working more closely with schools. 

 

Issues raised by Members :-

 

·           Young people are afforded valuable opportunities within youth clubs and there is a need to protect the service;

·           The Isle of Anglesey Charitable Trust has recently supported a grant application by the Young Farmers Organisation and the Urdd but youth clubs do not have such an avenue of grant funding;

·           Young people who attend their village youth clubs are unwilling to travel to youth clubs located in town locations as their affiliation and ownership of their youth club is paramount.  The closure of community youth clubs may result in the congregation of young people causing antisocial behaviour within the community due to lack of a place for them to socialise; some villages do not have a local Young Farmers Club nor a Urdd facility;

·           The reduction in community youth clubs would deprive young  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.

5.

Integrated Health and Social Care Services for Anglesey pdf icon PDF 212 KB

To submit a report by the Head of Adult’s Services.

Minutes:

Submitted – a report by the Head of Adult’s Services in relation to the above.

 

The Chair welcomed Mrs. Ffion Johnstone – Area Director (West) – Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (West), Dr. Stephen McVicar – Area Medical Director (West) -Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and Ms. Sian Purcell - Chief Officer (Medrwn Môn) to the meeting.  He also welcomed the Officers from the Social Services Department to the meeting.

 

The Assistant Chief Executive (Governance and Business Process Transformation) referred to the Social Services and Well-being Act 2014 which sets out the legal framework for local authorities and health boards to work together to assess people’s care needs, support needs, and the support needs of carers.   She stated that the 6 local authorities across North Wales are collaborating with the local health board to produce a North Wales Population Needs Assessment which identifies the current and future care and support needs of people and also supports the integration of services. The assessment will be published in April 2017.  The local authorities and local health board will thereafter need to formulate an area plan within twelve months.

 

A brief presentation was afforded to the meeting which highlighted the partnership working between the Authority, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and the Third Sector with regard to the integrated Health and Social Care Services for Anglesey.  The service boards established and their role was explained to the Committee as follows :-

 

·           Joint Public Services Board (Gwynedd & Môn);

·           Children and Young People’s Partnership (Anglesey);

·           Regional Partnership Board;

·           Model Môn;

·           Integrated Delivery Board (Anglesey);

·           SPOA Project Board;

·           SCS Management Board;

·           North Wales Family Support Board;

·           IFSS Local Management Board;

·           Nightowls;

·           Community Weekend working team

 

Dr. McVicar explained the role of the Môn Enhanced Care Team which supports GP’s to keep patients with acute medical problems at home when they would otherwise have had to be admitted to hospital.  The Team is based within the Social Services Department in Llangefni and is made up of Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Assistant Practitioners and GP’s and offers care for frail elderly people to help them to stay at their home safely.  Dr. McVicar referred to the Model Môn Team which is made up of representatives from the Health Board, Anglesey Council’s Social Services and the Third Sector and monitors various projects that deliver integrated health and social care to the residents of the Island. 

 

Dr. McVicar referred to the ‘Nightowls’ team which has been established from the Integrated Care Fund.  ‘Nightowls’ are a group of 6 experienced carers with 3 working shift on a rota basis.  ‘Nightowls’ offer care to people at night who have come from hospital and are within their home environment.  He explained the Community Weekend working team which consist of a Social Worker, Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist and a District Nursing Team enabling the service to be available 7 days a week for the people of Anglesey.

 

The Acting Head of Children’s Services explained the work of the Integrated Family Support Service which works with families  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

6.

Work Programme pdf icon PDF 162 KB

To submit the Committee’s Work Programme.

Minutes:

Submitted – the Scrutiny Officer’s report on the Committee’s draft Work Programme to May, 2017.

 

A Member expressed concern that large potential developers on the Island had not attended the Scrutiny Committee.  He noted that there is a need for such developers to inform and discuss the potential job opportunities which will be created by such developments on the Island and that a special meeting should be arranged to discuss such issues.  The Scrutiny Officer informed members that he had approached developers of the Land and Lakes project (Holyhead) in the past and that they would not be able to accept the invitation as they were in the process of submitting planning applications to the local authority and they did not wish to prejudice any decisions and commercially sensitive discussions with other organisations.

 

RESOLVED to note the draft Work Programme and that the Scrutiny Officer be requested to approach large developers to attend a special meeting of the Committee in due course.

 

ACTION : As noted above.