Edinburgh Network of Organisations working with Children, Young People and Families

Network Meeting Minutes3rd November 2016

PresentJoan Fraser EVOC (Chair)Michelle Rogers EVOC Emma Galloway ACOSVOPhili Wetton ACOSVOAndy Thomas Citadel Youth centreJulie King Circle Cat Paterson Home Link Family Support Bev Read Firsthand Lothian Gary Dewar Children 1stGraham McCulloch LAYC

Action 1 Network Meeting – apologies and introductions

Apologies received from Rhona Hunter, Sharon Guest, Margot Mackenzie, Paula Swanston, Brock Lueck, Carole Kelly, Alison Roxburgh, Morag Wilson, Karen Jenkinson, Susan Veitch, Niki Powers, Kath Muirhead, Margaret Murphy

2 Thematic DiscussionsACOSVO Leadership Exchange programmeEmma Galloway and Phili Wetton presented information about the Leadership Exchange Programme run by ACOSVO. This is a programme open to all leaders from all sectors at middle, senior and executive level, which enables them to do an exchange with someone working at the same level in another sector. The way that the programme is run will change slightly next year with 2 tranches of recruitment to exchanges in the year - one on April and one in October. Anyone interested should contact Phili Wetton (phili.wetton@acosvo.org.uk). It was agreed that a rep. from EVOC will join the Leadership Exchange Coordinator’s Group. The slides presented on the day are attached.

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3 Minutes of Network Meeting Thursday 6 th October 2016 Minutes agreed with one small amendment - ‘Citadel Youth Project’ should read ‘Citadel Youth Centre’.

4 Matters ArisingMental Health and Wellbeing review - there is still no conference report from the event that took place on 6th September. EVOC will continue to chase this and will bring to Network when available.

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Integrated Children and Young People’s Plan - The first meeting of working group to review the feedback from the Children’s Partnership away day and to start development of the new plan will be on 9 Nov. Michelle Rogers will be attending from EVOC and regular updates will be provided to the Network. Transport review - an update on the group to be developed around this will be bought to the next meeting.

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5 Network DevelopmentSuggestions for future thematic discussions are: - Ask ESEN to come and talk about social enterprise development.

Joan suggested contacting Emma Galloway as Chair of ESEN to invite them to do this.

Anna Mitchell (CEC Domestic Abuse lead) could be asked to deliver a presentation on ‘Safe and Together’ model around working with families affected by domestic abuse.

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6 Child Protection Update

There has not been a CPC meeting since the last Network meeting and therefore no update. Following up on discussion from last meeting about training, Sharon Guest agreed to explore with CEC about third sector organisations accessing learnpro. Michelle to follow this up with Sharon to see if any response from CEC. Question raised by Andy Thomas about workers being asked to attend professionals meetings in relation to young people which did not include the young person or family and whether other organisations have had this experience recently. No one else was aware of this happening. Agreed to keep monitoring this and raise with C&F if further examples.Some organisations have also had occasions where they have ended up arranging child planning meetings as schools have stated that they don’t have time to do this. Agreed that Michelle will raise with Gordon Mclean when she meets him on 17 Nov.

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7 Home Link are launching their Family Support and Antenatal Service on 29 November at the Faith Mission. All are welcome and Network members encouraged to share details. Information is on EVOC’s Noticeboard website.

Circle are running practice workshops for practitioners on working with Children Affected by Parental Substance Use on 1st and 8th December. Julie King to send details to Michelle to go on EVOC Noticeboard.

EVOC Conference will be held on Tuesday 8 November with the theme of ‘Complacent about Christie?’. One of the workshops will focus on developing a third sector manifesto to feed into CEC prior to Local Government elections on May 2017.

8 Partnership Working: Feedback

SO4 – 27/9 - update circulated from Niki Powers. Agreed we need to check that POPP is tied in with draft Parenting Framework being developed which will go to Children’s Partnership for

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approval. Agreed to raise with Pattie Santelices

POPP Strategic Advisory Group - 10th October – Gary Dewar - - main discussion was around future planning, numbers of groups to be run and admin support

South CSMG - 12/9 -Paula Swanston – update circulated - main update at the group was about GIRFEC and Named Person service.

Chief Officers Group – 2/11 - Joan Fraser - main discussion was on new structure for children’s services planning. Breakfast clubs were also discussed with aim by CEC to have universal provision of breakfast clubs in primary schools. Joan to feed back to CEC from Network re question regarding breakfast club’s that are not CEC run as they do not receive funding for supported places for vulnerable children. Joan advised that she is in discussion with the Fairer Food Initiative regarding possible supply of food to breakfast clubs.

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9 Any Other BusinessNone Date of Future Meetings at EVOC – please note time of 2-4pm8th December2017: 12th January, 2 February, 2 March, 6 April, 4 May, 8 June, NO July meeting, 3 August, 7 September, 5 October, 2 November, 7 December.

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