Health and Social Care Alliance accepted invitation to join the – Sara Redmond is in attendance. The matrix of Sector/SG priorities has been drawn up based on the exercise at the last meeting and circulated o the Forum for comment. A working group was set up to take forward work with the Evidence Framework. In relation to the first action, Sandy said that contacting specialists to arrange participation/presentation with the forum is not appropriate at this time. We will come back to this in the future. Matters arising were dealt with over the course of the meeting. Update on the Evidence Framework Patty updated the Forum on the development of the Evidence Framework since the last meeting took place. This included finalising the matrix of policy priorities and setting up a working group to discuss and put together an options paper for the work that the Forum could take forward in 2013-14. The resulting paper was tabled at the meeting and discussed. Patty highlighted that the options focus on specific topics but proposed that the Forum would look at them in terms of the wider impact they had on the third sector. She also noted that some of the options were time sensitive as linked to specific pieces of work such as strategies that were being developed. Ilse and Louise raised the concern that some of the options for future work are very specific and some organisations with a more general remit might find it hard to identify with them and sign up to specific tasks. Steven suggested that an objective for today’s discussion should be for the Forum to get to a place where everyone feels they can contribute to the pieces of work being taken forward. The Forum also thought it was important to consider the role of academics, making sure everyone can contribute, linking the work to broad issues about the sector to inform the work we do, and producing outputs like the Health and Social Care paper and the Reducing Re-offending paper (i.e. produce a series of TSRF papers). Setting the Forum’s Workplan for 2013/14 The Forum divided in two groups to discuss the options and provided feedback on the discussions afterwards. The Forum agreed to take the following pieces of work forward: Public Service Reform: How sector engages in planning structures How communities engage What works/barriers/enablers
Work plan for 2013/14 The Forum divided in two groups to discuss the options and provided feedback on the discussions afterwards. The Forum agreed to take the following pieces of work forward: Public Service Reform: How third sector engages in planning structures How communities engage What Health and Social Care: Personalisation Third sector Link to previous paper – drilling down Volunteering and employability: What we are doing well What do we need to know Participation Health of the sector: Pull together what we already have (workforce, funding…) Who’s got what? Working groups were three workshops to plan how to take the pieces of work forward: Health of the Sector – led by Ilse McKinnon. People/ personalisation and partnership – led by Sara Redmond. Volunteering and employability – led by Kathleen Doyle. Working group 1 – Health of the Sector Members: Ilse (lead), Louise, Research Question(s): (i) Size & Shape of the Sector – what do we know?; (ii) what data is available? Who has done mappings around size, shape, workforce, funding etc. Output: Probably looking at producing a short briefing paper. Possibly look at specific areas in the future. Timeline: End of November? Role each member will play: Still to be agreed but SCVO to lead resources required: Input from other Forum members Working group 2 – People, Personalisation and Partnership Members: Sara (lead), Patty, Jo, Mark, Jacqueline, Arthur, Lorna Research Question(s): (i) What evidence is out there?, (ii) What is meant by partnership?; (iii) What models of partnership working are effective?; (iv) What examples of ‘people’ being involved in partnerships
c) Form a subgroup to look at how SDS and personal budgets can assist people into employability – this could be in collaboration with others, such as CCPS, ASDW and SSSC (recommended). 6) Change Funds a) Do nothing (not recommended). b) Monitor situation and revisited in autumn 2013 (recommended). 7) Independence Referendum a) Do nothing just now and watch out for what could be helpful in the upcoming months (recommended). 8) Developing infrastructure of the third sector a) Do nothing (not recommended). b) Produce and/or disseminate a briefing note of the findings and watch out for any identified evidence gaps, which the Forum may be able to fill (recommended). NB: This overlaps with the PSR section where we also talk about community empowerment, co-production, partnership working.