Posted on behalf of Anthony Clipsom
The event went ahead at Midland as planned (July the 11th). It was
refreshingly old fashioned (no post its) and focussed. Levels of
engagement were pretty good.
Several ISO (Infrastructure Organisations) members attended with various hats on. VCS reps from partnerships well represented (Health, BCP, Culture, C&YP, Housing,
Economic, Elderly,Environment reps there - don't know about Safer or
Transport).
The two sessions I attended (Safer and Older People) showed a lot of
potential for VCS engagement - I'm sure other sessions did too.
Specific health issues that were raised - I found it difficult to
raise anything in the Safer session because it was very crowded.
There was some discussion of safety in the non-crime related sense -
accidents in the home and workplace and on the roads. There was
concern this wasn't being picked up. Lots of concerns in this group
about mapping services and joining it up at neighbourhood level.
In the Older people group, Jane (HealthNet Rep) and I were both there, as was Phil
from Healthnet steering group. Jane raised the issue of disability
not being adequately prioritised. I raised the need to join things
up around carers. Both points were well received.
Currently work is going on to collate the feedback on each session.
Hopefully, we will soon have the collated stuff on health.
The wider consultation was mentioned on several occassions but there
are no firm dates at the moment, AFAIK.
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