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Community Care, Health & Wellbeing Thematic Board
19 Nov 2015 - 14:00 to 16:00
Occurred
Tweedie Hall
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Agenda

Agenda
Notification
Committee Members
Membership
Councillor M Brown (Renfrewshire Council); D Leese, Lead Officer and Chief Officer Designate, F MacKay and C Walker, H Cunningham, Health & Social Care Partnership; J Ferrie, Engage Renfrewshire; S McLellan, Forum for Empowering Our Communities; P Nelis, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service; A Kennedy, Police Scotland; A Cumberford, West College Scotland; A Bonar, University of the West of Scotland (UWS); D Goodman, Renfrewshire Carers; J McKellar, Renfrew Leisure Limited; Dr A Van der Lee, GP Representative; D Reid, Renfrewshire ADP; R Telfer, Scottish Care; S McDonald, Active Communities; S Strachan, L McIntyre, R Robertson and L Muirhead (all Renfrewshire Council).
Chair
Councillor McMillan
Councillor McMillan presided.
Standard Items
Members of the Press and Public
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Further Information
This is a meeting which is open to members of the public. 

A copy of the agenda and reports for this meeting will be available for inspection prior to the meeting at the Customer Service Centre, Renfrewshire House, Cotton Street, Paisley and online at www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/agendas. 

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Present
Councillor I McMillan, Renfrewshire Council; D Reid, Renfrewshire ADP; D Leese and F MacKay (both Health & Social Care Partnership); J McKellar, Renfrew Leisure Limited; Dr A Van der Lee, GP Representative; I Beattie and R Robertson (both Renfrewshire Council).
In Attendance
P Henderson, RAMH; and C MacDonald and G Allison (both Renfrewshire Council).
Order of Business
Councillor McMillan advised that Item 9 had been deferred to the next meeting of the Forum.
Items Of Business
Apologies
Apologies from members.
Councillor M Brown (Renfrewshire Council); S McDonald, Active Communities; J Ferrie, Engage Renfrewshire; S McLellan, Forum for Empowering Our Communities; D Goodman, Renfrewshire Carers; L McIntyre and L Muirhead (both Renfrewshire Council); R Telfer, Scottish Care; P Nelis, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service; C Walker, C Burling and H Cunningham (all Health & Social Care Partnership): and A Cumberford, West College Scotland.
Declarations of Interest
Members are asked to declare an interest in any item(s) on the agenda and to provide a brief explanation of the nature of the interest.
There were no declarations of interest intimated prior to commencement of the meeting.
1 Minute of Previous Meeting
Minute of Previous Meeting held on 8 September, 2015.
1
There was submitted the Minute of the meeting of the Community Care, Health & Wellbeing Thematic Board held on 8 September, 2015.

DECIDED: That the Minute be approved.
2 Rolling Action Log
Report by Director of Finance & Resources, Renfrewshire Council.
2
The Rolling Action Log was submitted for approval.

DECIDED:

(a) That action CCH&WB.04.09.14(7) be removed from the action log as this action was now complete: and

(b) That the updated Rolling Action Log be approved.
3 Social Prescribing/Community Link Workers - How We Achieve It
Presentation by S McLellan, Chief Executive, RAMH.
3
A presentation was given by P Henderson, RAMH, relative to the Community Connectors project.

The presentation outlined why the project was developed; highlighted the statistics; detailed the partner organisations who were involved; and summarised the benefits.

DECIDED: That the presentation be noted.
4 Syrian Refugees
Verbal update by R Robertson, Health Improvement Manager, Health & Social Care Partnership.
4
R Roisin gave a verbal update on the arrival of the Syrian Refugees in Renfrewshire.

She advised that a number of refugees had so far settled in accommodation in Renfrewshire and were happy, content and keen to get their children into schools and to start looking for employment. She advised that officers from Renfrewshire Council had been actively working with partners to put into place the arrangements required to support the refugees. This involved housing, health, education, benefits and advice agencies, translation services, social care and police amongst others.

DECIDED: That the verbal update be noted.
5 Reducing Health Inequalities
Discussion led by Lead Officer
5
F MacKay gave an update on reducing health inequalities; improving life expectancy; and how we can improve health and narrow the equalities gap.

It was noted that there were clear overlaps between health inequality and poverty and the Board agreed that contact be made with the Tackling Poverty team to look at the extent to which inequality was synonymous with tackling poverty within Renfrewshire.

DECIDED:

(a) That it be agreed that contact be made with the Tackling Poverty team to look at the extent to which inequality was synonymous with tackling poverty within Renfrewshire.

(b) That the report be noted.
6 Renfrewshire Leisure Update
Presentation by J McKellar, Chief Executive, Renfrewshire Leisure.
6
A verbal update was given by J McKellar, Chief Executive, Renfrewshire Leisure relative to the progress of the Trust in delivering cultural and leisure services.

She advised that from 1 July 2015 Renfrewshire Leisure took on the management of assets such as Town Halls, Libraries, Museums and Paisley Arts Centre along with Sports Development, Active Schools functions and playing fields and as of 1 December 2015 the company would operate the community halls and bowling greens previously operated by Renfrewshire Council.

She also spoke about the management of new assets; the progress of a new local action plan; the development of existing and new programmes; and the objectives of the Trust being aligned with the Council and Partner objectives.

Footfall patterns were discussed and it was agreed that a report would be submitted to a future Board which analysed footfall patterns across Renfrewshire Leisure Centres according to postcode dataset.

DECIDED:

(a) That a report be submitted to a future Board which analysed footfall patterns across Renfrewshire Leisure Centres according to postcode dataset: and

(b) That the update be noted.
7 Carers Forum Meeting
Verbal update by Chair and F MacKay, Head of Strategic Planning & Health Improvement, Renfrewshire Health & social Care Partnership.
7
Councillor McMillan and F MacKay gave a verbal report relative to their attendance at the Carers Forum which was held on Friday 13 November, 2015, at the Renfrewshire Carers Centre to hear what issues there were for carers and what could help them in their caring role.

They advised that the meeting was well attended and very informative with the first item on the agenda being an update on the Carers Bill and explaining the National Eligibility Criteria Framework being proposed by the National Carers Organisations which generated interesting discussion.

DECIDED: That the update be noted.
8 Integration Fund Update
Verbal Update by T Lavery, Project Manager, Renfrewshire Health & Social Care Partnership.
8
A verbal update was given by R Robertson relative to the progress of the Integration Fund and an update on the four projects which were being funded by the Integrated Care Fund.

DECIDED: That the update be noted.
9 Community-Led Health Update
Verbal update by S McDonald, General Manager, Active Commnities.

Declarations of Interests

Member NameItem Ref.DetailsNature of DeclarationAction
No declarations of interest have been entered for this meeting.

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