Team Doncaster Strategic Partnership Tuesday 23 February 2016 Agenda Item No. 2 Team Doncaster Strategic Partnership- Agreed Actions Tuesday 12th January 2016 Present Ros Jones, Chair (Item 1 and Item 2 (Part)) Bishop Peter Burrows Dan Fell Steve Helps Susan Jordan Councillor Pat Knight Jo Miller, Chair (Item 2 (Part) to Item 6) Jackie Wilson (representing Paul Moffat) Mike Pinkerton Kathryn Singh Chris Stainforth George Trow Richard Tweed Norma Wardman Also in attendance Dan Clark Christian Foster James Thomas (Doncaster Children s Services Trust) For Item 2 Apologies Nigel Brewster Nick Tupper Action Responsibility 1. Notes of the Meeting held on 12th October 2015 Agreed. 2. Matters Arising Note 2d) Matters Arising Devolution acknowledged that partners were already aware of the initial devolution deal signed off in October 2015. He advised the meeting that a consultation period had now commenced and it was expected that the deal would be signed off in March 2016. Primarily having an economic focus, the deal will have wider implications for the partnership. Partners were invited to attend an overview and scrutiny session on devolution that evening. It was noted that the Cities and Devolution Bill had received royal ascent in January 2016 and it was the 1
intention to elect a mayor in 2017. Jo Miller advised partners of the impact this may have upon other elections to be held at that time. It was agreed that an item on governance arrangements for the Mayoral Combined Authority, including powers that will be devolved to a) The Mayor and b) the Combined Authority will be presented at a future Team Doncaster Strategic Partnership meeting. 3. Outcome from the inspection of services to children in need of help and protection; including next steps Jackie Wilson and James Thomas delivered a presentation on the outcome of the recent inspection of services to children in need of help and protection. Partners received the judgment from the inspection for each judgment area, together with the 20 recommendations contained within the inspection report in the context of the challenge of getting to good. The presentation provided details of recognised improvements and areas for development; together with an outline of an action plan and Practice Improvement Programme to include: a) A skills gap analysis; b) Coaching and mentoring; c) The introduction of practice advisors; and d) Impact measuring. It was confirmed that assurance would be provided at partnership and organisational level; and external scrutiny would include Ofsted monitoring against the action plan, an improvement partner (Achieving for Children) and opportunities for external scrutiny/peer review. Dan Fell referred to the aspiration of being good by 2017 and was interested to hear about the major obstacles to achieving a good inspection judgment; and what resources would be utilised to reach this score. Partners were advised that any future inspection will focus upon the Practice Improvement Programme particularly around the quality of work; the positivity relating to partnership working; together with an integrated wrap-around of services. In response to a question from Bishop Peter Burrows, partners were advised that the impact on people receiving services will be monitored through the quality and performance framework; a robust case audit process including observation of practice through attendance at child protection conferences; the development of a complaints and comments service; and contract measures; and in requesting the views of our children and young people. Susan Jordan stated that the partnership needs to recognise its place; in particular regarding the role of the partnership in improving the early help offer. It was reported that the Council was leading on the development of a strategy; triage arrangements, pathway and associated training was being developed. It was noted that partnership engagement was key, particularly at an early stage to enable individual agencies to plan for expectations placed upon them. Partners were advised that workforce stability had helped to drive improvement and that in terms of recruitment some agency workers had chosen to transfer to a permanent contract. Partners were in agreement that work should be undertaken to remove the inadequate judgment by the end of 2016. It was proposed that Paul Moffat will feedback to partners on the Performance Accountability Board particularly in terms 2 Paul Moffat
of a commitment to the action plan and building on individual operational plans for each agency in due course. 4. Update on Assets Partnerships in Health; The One Public Estate and Asset Partnership Plans for 2016 Following the presentation delivered in September 2014 outlining the challenges and need for closer working on assets between partners Oliver Judges delivered a further presentation on some key progress made in the following areas: Successful One Public Estate Bid Strategic Health and Social Care Assets Partnership / Strategy One Public Estate Bid (Requires initial agreement to Principles): Partners were advised that the bid was put together under the Sheffield City Region banner with effective buy in in the principles and proposal of all nine Councils in the region. The next stage is to build further revenue savings and capital receipt projects to take forward with support and co-ordination from the Sheffield City Region One Public Estate (OPE) Programme Team with the opportunity to propose key projects for the next round of funding. It was noted the Cabinet Office Programme has received 31m funding for the programme. One of the key benefits in the proposal is that organisations operating across council boundaries will have a clear route to agree principles behind co-location of services and co-ordination of asset reduction programmes across the City Region. It is envisaged having discussions at this top level will reduce duplication of discussions, negotiations and reduce blockers at the local level by agreeing key principles at the Sheffield City Region level. This will increase the speed of discussions and delivery of wider savings. Locally Doncaster MBC will co-ordinate the Assets Partnerships Group which will ultimately deliver projects locally in Doncaster. It was confirmed that the next stage of the project will consider proposals for the co-location of blue light services. It was noted that, whilst unoccupied properties in the town centre would not be considered under One Public Estate proposals, work was on-going in relation to the utilization of void space in the town centre; and the council was reaching out to private owners of commercial blocks as part of the regeneration of the town centre. These topics were due to be considered at the next Enterprising Doncaster meeting scheduled for February 2016. Doncaster Strategic Health and Social Care Assets Strategy: During 2015 DMBC and key health partners have been working with the Community Health Partnerships (CHP) to deliver an outline strategy for health assets in Doncaster. A strategy has now been produced which outlines some principles and potential opportunities to work together to both reduce the estate and improve services. Team Doncaster Strategic Partnership:- a) Noted the potential of the One Public Estate and agree to work together to deliver projects under this initiative. Sheffield City Region/Doncaster MBC will co-ordinate meetings during 2016; b) Noted the new Health Partnership Estates Strategy and the request provide initial views and feedback; and c) Agreed to provide organisational support where required to further the programme. a)-c) All It was proposed that: 3
d) An item on the challenges and aspirations around the regeneration of the town centre should be included on the agenda for the 6th April 2016 Team Doncaster Strategic Partnership meeting; and e) A discussion on how best to work with the 3rd Sector should take place after this meeting. d) Nigel Brewster/Lee Tillman e) Oliver Judges & Norma Wardman 5. Open Space Session a) Doncaster MBC - Directorate of Adults Health and Well Being Jo Miller advised partners that David Hamilton had left the authority at the end of November; Acting as a change agent, Kim Curry, an experienced interim, would commence on 18th January 2016. An internal Adults Improvement Board has been established to respond to concerns regarding the number of people in residential care in Doncaster. There is a need to develop modern solutions to reduce high end interventions and help people live independently in their homes; and encourage joined up commissioning and plans. In addition slow progress in the development of the Personalisation Plan has led to hospital re-admittances. b) RDaSH - CQC Report Kathryn Singh stated that the CQC report was due to be published shortly and shared the detail of the 5 domains, 18 independent service reports and overall judgement with partners. A Quality Summit was scheduled for 3 February 2016. It was proposed that a more detailed briefing is provided at the next Team Doncaster Strategic Partnership meeting. c) Doncaster MBC Strategy and Performance Unit (SPU) advised partners of the review completed recently that aimed to bring policy, performance, partnership and research functions across the Council to provide an integrated solution in relation to the delivery of these services. Lee Tillman, Christian Foster and Peter Norman will be meeting with partners in due course to re-examine the health checks and ascertain how the SPU can best support partners particularly in terms of helping, enabling and supporting the public service reform agenda and the economic growth agenda. It was agreed that the new SPU Structure together with a copy of the lessons learned document following completion of the Council s IT review would be shared with partners. Kathryn Singh, Christian Foster and Peter Norman 6. Any Other Business a) Inclusion and Fairness Forum Partners were advised that the public consultation Fairness is Everyone s Business Survey was due to close on 29th January 2016. A report on progress will be presented at a future Inclusion and Fairness Forum and then at the Team Doncaster Strategic Partnership meeting on 23rd February 2016. Susan Jordan stated there was a need to establish where anti-poverty work sits in terms of the Inclusion and Fairness Forum. It was proposed this topic will be discussed separately after the meeting. b) Items for the Team Doncaster Strategic Partnership Meeting scheduled for Tuesday 23rd February 2016 i. Progress Report Inclusion and Fairness Report () ii. Update on Progress in Developing an Education Commission (Bishop Peter Burrows); iii. Financial Position of DBH and Links to the Update on the CQC Summit (Mike Pinkerton and Chris Stainforth); iv. Update on the Devolution Deal: Including governance arrangements for the Mayoral Combined Authority, powers that will be devolved to a) The Mayor and b) the Combined Authority (); and Susan Jordan b)i&iv b)ii Bishop Peter Burrows/Lee Tillman b)iii Mike Pinkerton and Kathryn Singh b)v Kathryn Singh 4
v. RDaSH CQC Report Briefing (Kathryn Singh) c) Items for the Team Doncaster Strategic Partnership Meeting scheduled for Wednesday 6th April 2016 i. The challenges and aspirations around the regeneration of the town centre; d) It was agreed that the timing of patient care/finance elements of adult social care will be discussed separately outside this meeting. c)i Nigel Brewster/Lee Tillman Chris Stainforth and Mike Pinkerton 5
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