South Strategic Neighbourhood Forum

Monday, 14 January 2019

Present:	Councillors Affleck, Bell, Bowden, Cooper, J Fitzpatrick, P Fitzpatrick, Kitchen, Peet, Robinson (Vice-Chair, in the Chair) and R Welsh
In Attendance:	Jessica Williams Emma Varnam John Gregory	Interim Director of Commissioning Assistant Director (Operations & Neighbourhoods) Head of Community Safety and Homelessness

Apologies for Absence:	Councillors Buglass and Chadwick

8	Minutes

RESOLVED

That the minutes of the meeting of the South Strategic Neighbourhood Forum held on 15 October 2018 be approved as a correct record.

9	Living Life Well Programme: Improving Mental Health Support in Neighbourhoods

The Forum received a presentation from the Interim Director of Commissioning, consulting Members on the development of the Living Well Programme that aimed to create new approaches to mental health support across Tameside & Glossop. The Living Well model sought to change the way the voluntary and public sectors work together to ensure the right support is available to people when it was needed. The programme had been awarded £3.4 million in National Lottery funding over three years to support new local partnerships in Edinburgh, Luton, Salford, and Tameside & Glossop to develop their own versions of an approach which had been established successfully in Lambeth.

The aim was to transform mental health support towards early intervention and prevention, supporting people to live at home and ensuring delivery of high quality and sustainable services. Creation of a Living Well system would support residents to get and keep well by strengthening personal sense of meaning, close interpersonal relationships, and social integration. Involvement in the programme was to be led by key local organisations including: Action Together, the Clinical Commissioning Group, the Local Authority, and Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. Service users would have access to each of the local partner organisations working within one Hub to make sure that everyone was receiving the best service for their needs.

In response to Members concerns over the current delay in referrals for people suffering with mental illness, the Interim Director of Commissioning advised that the new approach was likely to provide a comparatively low cost and high volume way of freeing up resources in local secondary care services thereby reducing waiting times.

Members identified other voluntary organisations that had not been referred to within the presentation including Home-Start (Oldham, Stockport, Tameside), which could be included within the programme.

In response to Members questions the Interim Director of Commissioning advised that approaches to supporting Children’s mental health were being developed and would be subject to further consultation.

RESOLVED

That the presentation be noted.

10	Community Safety

The Assistant Director – Operations and Neighbourhoods, delivered a presentation outlining the three key priorities of the Standing Together – Greater Manchester Police and Crime Plan,

Keeping People Safe

Reducing Harm and Reoffending

Strengthening Communities and Places

The Assistant Director detailed the priorities for the Tameside Community Safety Partnership in 2019 as:

Reducing violent crime & domestic abuse

Preventing & dealing with crime & anti-social behaviour

Reducing harm caused by drugs & alcohol

Preventing the exploitation of children & vulnerable people

Improving community confidence & cohesion

The Head of Homelessness and Community Safety updated Members on progress on the above priorities. In response to a Member’s question assurances were provided that Greater Manchester Fire had adequately been consulted in drafting the priorities. Members raised particular concerns around the lack of a cohesive approach to licensing off-licenses, commented on the scale of the work to be done, in particular, on licensing laws and the availability of alcohol.

The Assistant Director (Operations and Neighbourhoods) advised Members that a Neighbourhood Home Watch lead had been appointed and undertook to contact Greater Manchester Police in relation to PACT meeting reinstatement.

RESOLVED

That the content of the presentation be noted.

11	Budget Conversation 2019-20

It was reported that Tameside Council (TMBC) and NHS Tameside and Glossop clinical Commissioning Group (T&GCCG) had come together to form the Tameside and Glossop Strategic commission. Together they handled over £900 million of money spent o public services ranging from bin collections through care for the elderly to the provision of GP surgeries. Both TMBC and T&GCCG had to set a balanced budget for 2019/2020. The view of stakeholders, partners and residents were important in helping to understand local priorities and inform the budget setting process. Further information on the budget and the Budget conversation 2019-2020 was available on the Tameside council website at:

https://www.tameside.gov.uk/tbc/budgetconversation2019-20.

The same page also included a link to an online survey which gave people the opportunity to have their say on priorities for the budget in 2019-20 and future years. The closing date for completing the Budget Conversation 2019-20 survey was 29 January 2019.

RESOLVED

That the information provided be noted.