Themed meeting Wealth & Equality
At Sefton House, Runcorn
Present
In Attendance
K Parkes
Apologies
A
Bowen
This was the
first of the sub group themed meetings and was called to look at the general
format of the group.
·
Name it was discussed that calling the group Wealth
& Equality is already leading to confusion.
Members were asked to consider suitable names to tie into the wealth
& equality theme
·
Frequency of meetings it was agreed that the meetings should
be scheduled to feed into the SSP meetings.
The partnership meets every two months so it was decided that the themed
group should meet at least one month before this date to enable members to ask
for items to be included on the agenda and feed any issues into the
chair/co-ordinator. The next SSP
meetings are 1.9.04 and 23.11.04. Feedback from the partnership will be given at
the next themed meeting. Next meeting
was set for 28th October at
·
Timing of meetings due to unavailability of members to
attend meetings in the day it was agreed that timing should be varied to
accommodate all members.
·
Aims and objectives were briefly agreed as:
o
Mechanism
to feed information into the partnership
o
Mechanism
to receive feedback to disseminate to the borough
o
Means
of providing the partnership with a comprehensive listing of groups able to
commission pieces of work
o
Means
of influencing the priorities to target for NRF
It was agreed
that the group will adopt full terms of reference but that more members would
need to have an input to this document.
The objectives of
the partnership were outlined as:
·
Helping
to eliminate child poverty
·
Enhancing
the quality of life of those who are less able to help themselves
·
Helping
residents to build confident and successful communities
·
Improving
the quality of life of older people in a community setting
It was noted that
disability is not listed in this or any one of the other partnership
priorities. It was agreed that this is a
cross cutting theme and the SSP chairs meet regularly and keeping this level of
communication will prevent disability issues from slipping through the
net. Registration of disabled children
has already begun and this could be widened to provide a comprehensive
database.
The funding
currently in place was allocated by the LSP.
The new round of funding is available from April 05 and no decisions
have yet been made about this allocation so it is an ideal time to become more
involved in the process and influence change.
The agenda for
the partnership meeting on 1.9.04 was summarized as follows
·
Update
on LSP by Karen Marcroft
·
Update
on CEN by Andy Guile
·
Information
sharing (what forums/meetings members attend)
·
Monitoring
report
·
Coordinators
report
·
Underspend some projects have been identified which will mean
that these can be taken up rather than the money going back into the central
pot
At a recent LSP
away day each group were given the task of producing an Action Plan by October
which would include stated priorities.
The W&E SSP must include the following
·
How
to better partnership working
·
Short
term impact on peoples lives
·
Better
access for and engagement of local people
Date/time next meeting: 28th October at