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Welcome and apologies (chair) - Grant Manders Minutes: Apologies were received from: Elaine Garman, NHS Highland Pippa Milne, Argyll and Bute Council Councillor Ellen Morton, Argyll and Bute Council Gordon Wales, Scottish Government Christina West, Health and Social Care Partnership |
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Minute and Highlights of the CPP Management Committee Meeting on the 18th December 2015 PDF 82 KB Additional documents: Minutes: The minutes and highlights of the meeting of the CPP
Management Committee of the 18th December 2015 were approved as a
correct record. |
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Minutes: The Action Tracker was updated and approved as an accurate
reflection of current actions. Note of one outstanding action related to
inviting organisations to be part of CPP in Argyll and Bute. This will be
picked up with the ACPG paper within this meeting and actioned thereafter. |
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Items for Discussion |
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Area Community Planning Groups, paper, Shirley MacLeod PDF 129 KB Minutes: Shirley MacLeod presented the report and advised the
Management Committee of the results of a recent customer satisfaction survey on
the Area Community Planning Groups. It was noted that the results were
generally very positive. Grant Manders advised that he was keen and committed to
meeting with the Chairs of the Area Community Planning Groups to develop a
strong relationship and work together. Shirley agreed to facilitate this
meeting. Discussion was held on appropriate responses to the points
raised in 4.2 of the report. The points raised and response given are as
follows : a) Consider
the role Third Sector (including Sport) Organisations play in achieving
progress towards outcomes detailed within the SOA and the issues faced with
regards to funding and staffing Response: Glenn Heritage advised
that the situation was difficult for many Third Sector Organisations and that
this has an impact on communities. “Good news stories” were highlighted for
some recently in receipt of funding. Discussion focused on considering whether
there was a better way to commission services, ensuring funding bids were
closely linked to the Single Outcome Agreement (SOA) and ensuring that all
organisations knew what support was available to them. It was agreed to
publicise funding opportunities through the CPP Fortnightly Bulletin. b) Consider
the issues raised by the breadth of education required to be provided by
geographically remote secondary schools (mainland as well as island) and the
staffing difficulties faced in relation to service provision in remote rural
areas and remote school towns. Response: Cleland Sneddon advised
that the staffing model for schools is defined by the school roll and that the
Education Service was working closely with Argyll College UHI regarding their
valuable contribution to the breadth of curriculum in the schools. Cleland
spoke of better alignment and targeting of courses across all schools to local
economic opportunities rather than simply having a breadth of subjects. He
advised that a number of initiatives had been applied to improve teacher
recruitment – for example the students currently undertaking the Post-graduate
Primary Teaching Qualification with Argyll College UHI will graduate this year
and help address staffing shortages. Creative approaches to accommodating
teachers moving into the Oban area were also discussed, the recruitment of a
spouse as a teacher through the Maritime Change programme was highlighted and
new models of employing teachers across primary and secondary schools were also
presented to the Management Committee. Fraser Durie also advised that Argyll College
UHI were working with all the secondary schools within Argyll and Bute and that
each of the four administrative areas had different area skills requirements. The success of the Primary
Teaching PGDE was praised and the Management Committee agreed provision of a
Secondary Teaching qualification would also bring significant benefits to the
area and address staff shortages. The CPP asked Fraser Durie to take this
forward. Should any difficulties arise it was agreed that both the Chair of the
CPP and CEO of Argyll and Bute Council would write to the governing body. Cleland Sneddon highlighted that he was
speaking to Cllr Aileen Morton and would brief her on this discussion. c) Consider
the potential links that could be developed between the Locality Groups
mentioned in the Health and Social Care Integration report and the Area CPGs. Response: Rona Gold and Lorna
Elliott have a meeting arranged with colleagues in Health and Social Care to
discuss. Louise Long advised that the Terms of Reference for the Locality
Groups are available and that the membership of these groups was still being
discussed. It was agreed that Rona would look further into the locality groups
and how they link into Area Community Planning Groups and the delivery of the
Single Outcome Agreement. There was agreement to the
suggestion by the Chair to look at groups meeting locally and ensure these are
linked to the ACPGs. d) Consider
the problems caused in respect of road closure arrangements in the Oban area in
the aftermath of road accidents and in particular of the implications for the
500 pupils who travel by bus to and from school on a daily basis. Response: There was a lengthy
closure of the A85 in May 2014 following a fatal collision at Dunbeg. Due to
the time of day this caused delays in pupils at nearby schools being
transported home at their usual times. The Argyll and Bute Multi Agency Road
Safety Group discussed and implemented an early warning system in relation to
schools during road closures. Any closure during the school day is relayed from
the Police control room to Argyll and Bute Council with the Education
Department then alerting schools and parents of such a delay and provide
suitable advice. The advice may be on the diversion route to use or in extreme
cases, children being kept at school longer then transported home when the road
reopens. Consideration was given to the
adoption of the Glencruitten to Connel road being adopted as a local diversion.
This was reviewed by representatives of Argyll and Bute Council, BEAR Scotland
(representing Transport Scotland) and Police Scotland. After review this was
not deemed to be a safe and suitable alternative to the Standard Incident
Diversion Route and this was reported back to the elected members of the Oban,
Lorn and the Isles Area Committee in January 2015. There has been a year on year
decrease in fatal and serious injury collisions in Argyll and Bute over the
last three years and a decrease in the requirement to close roads to
investigate serious collisions. Police Scotland also continues to invest in
trained Collision Investigators based within Argyll and Bute to speed up access
to such locations and therefore reopen roads quicker. Grant offered Police officers to
attend the OLI ACPG to answer questions on road closure diversions. e) Consider
the inclusion of the Scottish Ambulance Service and Visit Scotland as active
partners within Community Planning structures and processes at both strategic
and local level. Response: All agreed that they be invited to formally participate in the CPP. Grant ... view the full minutes text for item 5. |
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National Community Planning Group, verbal, Gordon Wales Minutes: There was no update from the National Community Planning
Group. |
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Presentation by Nick Ferguson on Economic Forum recommendations PDF 3 MB Minutes: Grant warmly welcomed Nick Ferguson to the meeting and thanked
him for attending the Management Committee meeting. Nick informed the Management Committee that his remit had
been to look at Argyll and Bute from a business perspective. The key points from the presentation were
that:
A question and answer session followed with members of the
Management Committee and Nick Ferguson. Nick advised that some of the
recommendations were for the private sector but suggested that the Management
Committee should lobby for change, spend their budgets within Argyll and Bute
and focus on key areas where the partner agencies can make a difference. The Management Committee welcomed information that the
sub-groups of the Economic Forum would continue to meet on a six-monthly basis
focusing on the areas of Tourism, Food Production, Youth and Education and
Barriers. Sally Loudon thanked Nick for the amount of work he had done
for the Management Committee through speaking to mobile phone companies, the
Depute First Minister, lobbying for change and enabling greater links between
the public and private sectors. Councillor Dick Walsh echoed the sentiments
expressed by Sally towards Nick. Action: Updates from
the Economic Forum sub-groups to continue to be provided to the Management
Committee through Stuart Green |
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SOA Delivery Plan Review PDF 111 KB Additional documents:
Minutes: The CPP Management Committee discussed in depth how to
finalise the delivery plans that sit underneath the SOA. It was agreed by all that
further work was required and that the plans would be signed off at the June
meeting of the Management Committee. Discussion points included the following:
The Management Committee agreed that:
Cleland and Louise advised that they would look at Outcomes
3 and 4 together. Actions:
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Papers for noting |
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Small-scale study of Child Protection activity in Argyll and Bute: Executive Summary PDF 270 KB Minutes: The paper was noted. |
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Minutes: The paper was noted. It was agreed
that local initiatives may be supported by the Outcome Lead but not necessarily
included within the SOA: Local. |
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SOA Performance and Scrutiny: Outcome 3 - for noting PDF 49 KB Minutes: The performance information on Outcome
3: Education, skills and training maximises opportunities for all was noted |
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SOA Performance and Scrutiny: Outcome 4 - for noting PDF 42 KB Minutes: The performance information on
Outcome 4: Children and young people have the best possible start was noted. |
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SOA Performance and Scrutiny: Exceptions - update from Outcome Leads PDF 108 KB Minutes: The exceptions were noted |
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AOCB Minutes: UPDATE ON SYRIAN REFUGEES Cleland advised of an offer of employment
for one of the refugees in Bute THIRD SECTOR INTERFACE – KEY DATES FOR DIARIES Glenn Heritage advised that a
conference focusing on transport would be taking place on the 21st
June 2016 at the Argyllshire Gathering, Oban and that the Volunteer of the Year
Awards would take place on the 16th September 2016. PERFORMANCE, REVIEW AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEE – REQUEST FOR CPP MEMBER TO
SIT ON COMMITTEE Shirley MacLeod advised that a vacancy
had arisen on the Performance Review and Scrutiny Committee following Douglas
Cowan’s promotion. 3 members of this Committee come from Management Committee
partner agencies with Grant Manders and Jim Hymas taking two of the 3 seats allocated to the Management
Committee. Shirley would provide an email
requesting a nomination through the Community Planning team. Action: Shirley to email the Community Planning team with a request for
a Management Committee member to sit on the Performance Review and Scrutiny
Committee. |
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Update on Electric Vehicles Minutes: Samantha Quarton and Fraser Durie updated the Management Committee on the grant funding
for Electric Vehicles made available by the Energy Saving Trust in October
2014. Argyll College UHI would be using the grant to lease a number of electric
vehicles to supplement their existing fleet. |
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Prevention Minutes: Grant advised that he saw a number
of cross-cutting themes which sat across all of the SOA Outcomes and asked
whether there was an appetite to look at these themes alongside the outcomes. Following discussion, it was agreed
that prevention or early intervention should sit within each of the outcomes
rather than as a separate group and that the role of the Management Committee
was to look at the totality of preventative activity. It was agreed to look at
the totality of preventative activity across all partner organisations post
June. Action: Rona to look at the totality of preventative activity across
all partner organisations post June 2016. |
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Dates of future meetings Thursday 9th June –
Outcomes 1 and 5 Tuesday 2nd August
– Full Partnership Thursday 29th
September – Outcomes 2 and 6 Tuesday 20th
December – Outcomes 3 and 4 Minutes: Thursday 9th June 2016 – Outcomes 1 and 5 Tuesday 2nd August – Full Partnership Thursday 29th August – Outcomes 2 and 6 Tuesday 20th December – Outcomes 3 and 4 |