Minutes of the Women’s Health and Equality Consortium meeting
20 JULY 2015; 10:30 – 15:30
Present: Annette Ashley (WHEC, Chair); Tanzia Ahmed (WHEC, minutes);
Vivienne Hays (WRC); Nisan Z. Kesete(FORWARD), Silvia Petretti
(Positively UK), Helen Beecher-Bryant (Maternity Action), Patricia Ng
(Imkaan)
Apologies: Ila Chandavarkar (WRC); Sheila Coates (Rape Crisis),
1. Introductions and outline
1.1 AA welcomed partners and outlined the aims of the meeting.
2. Minutes and actions from last meeting (12 May 2015)
2.1 All amendments incorporated in the last minutes.
2.2 The Actions from the last meeting were updated, and some carried over
(see table below).
3. Update on work by partner organisations
WHEC
3.1 AA completing all the status reports of each project, doing handover
notes
3.2 TA has successfully managed to put the network membership database
on the website.
3.3 TA uploading lost resources back on website
3.4 TA to build up on the project “Cost-Benefit of Women’s Services” this
year
Positively UK
3.5 Acquired funding for their pregnancy project
3.6 Report on “Best Practice of Women with HIV” has gone to print
3.7 Engaged in peer-led research (this is a part of global reference group and
will include UNWomen, it will involve the topic of women’s access to HIV
treatment), to be released on July 19
Maternity Action
3.8 Ross is back; continues to work in pregnancy discrimination
3.9 Continuing the “5 Key Rights” campaign – trying to secure funding,
webinar programs haven’t taken off yet
3.10 Work being done on migration, midwives working with refugee and
asylum seekers
3.11 Continuing with their advice services; Trying to generate more funds for
phone-call reception
3.12 MA website has been updated
3.13 Organising an event in September 2015 on asylum seekers
FORWARD UK
3.14 It’s now mandatory for health professionals and teachers to report on
FGM, Forward providing training and resources needed (background
work needs to be done; engaging with Home Office and DoH)
3.15 Training teachers and students on “Parents Sessions”
3.16 Training youth advocates to work in communities
3.17 Cross-European project to start in UK on Forced Marriages and FGM
3.18 Awarded “Charity of the Year”
WRC
3.19 Doing a Comic Relief funded project that involves filming women facing
inequalities in their everyday life (objective is to raise awareness and
support women’s sector to get more funding; primary audience will be
journalists)
3.20 Fair Deal project is going quite well, getting a lot of exposure on social
and mainstream media
3.21 Ila doing the Engagement Toolkit
3.22 AA to go to Informatics Meeting
RAPE CRISIS
3.23 faced unprecedented referral (currently there are 51k users of RC)
3.24 RC suggested that DoH’s “Top Tips Document for Commissioners”
could be circulated by VAWG groups (the documents contains
commissioning good practice elements
IMKAAN
3.25 Recently launched an online shop to raise funds
3.26 Completed community champions project – awareness raising on
forced marriage, and within the context of violence against women and
girls
4. Project updates
4.1 Ila as interim Manager, starting August
4.2 1000 Women – AA attended meeting, Joy to attend WHEC meeting;
Brunel University will do the data assessment and evaluation
4.3 AA have drawn up questions and will email them to Silvia; AA has spoken
to Sharon at UEL, will interview 8-10 people
4.4 TA is working on the Care Act briefing
4.5 Strategic recommendations and evaluating impact of WHEC and SP
(issued was due to be raised in this meeting): UEL – 2 students to
evaluate WHEC, WHEC could use their professional fundraisers to bid for
funding
4.6 The role and value of women’s services for health and wellbeing: Report
has been finalised and published. TA currently working on building on the
project for 2015/16 (TA will commission someone to do the report).
4.7 Scoping papers on dementia and personalisation: AA commissioned 4
case studies, which have been paid for by Age UK. Final draft completed.
Jointly badged project with Age UK – draft with them for design and
printing (which they are paying for).
4.8 Launch of Dementia project in September 2015
4.9 Dementia project: 2 UEL students are working and have already got the
frontline literature review done, got feedback from 5 women’s
organisations who are keen to work in this project; for the qualitative
study the students will interview women’s organisations
4.10 WHEC partners to promote WHEC and Strategic Partnership at their
events and with their members. AA to put together a WHEC flyer which
partners can take along to events.
4.11 Round table events organised by Imkaan, Positively UK and Rape
Crisis: three events will now take place with women’s organisations and
service users across three different regions. The plan is to meet with the
Director of Public Health and the Chair of the local Health and Wellbeing
Board in the same regions, to discuss the findings from the events with
the aim of influencing changes in local policy.
4.12 1000 Women – Joy presented on the background and objectives of the
project
4.13 Big Lottery Funding – NICE quality standard, partners to send
materials to AA, Rape Crisis opted out
5. AOB
5.1 TA to send minutes and actions.
Dates of next meetings:
Thursday 17 September
Thursday 19 November
Thursday 21 January 2016
Table of Actions
Action
1.
Annette to work with Age UK on completing
dementia report.
Annette to work with Helen
Cylwick on personalisation briefing.
2.
Ila to work on toolkit and briefing (Healthwatch work)
and put on website
3.
Tanzia to create database of contacts for distribution
and share with partners; Upload on website
4.
Helen Beecher-Bryant to send partners information
on the 5 Key Rights
5.
Annette will speak to system partners about an
updated list of who to influence and send to strategic
partners
6
Annette to create WHEC flyer: TA to take over
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Partners to raise awareness of network with own
members
8.
Helen to discuss design and layout of MA report with
colleague and contact Annette
Progress
Done
On-going
Done
Done
Done
To do
On-going
Done
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Partners to submit resources they wish to upload on
the WHEC website to Tanzia
AA contacted Pathway but Viv will take it forward to
talk to a human rights lawyer about publishing the
information
Annette to look at putting together a podcast
Annette to research women’s labour group to get
their support and find out if there is a focus group on
dementia
Sheila to send partners slides from DH conference
on trauma, sexual violence and impact on mental
health
WRC to contact Rukayah re: election video
Imkaan to provide acknowledgements and contents
page for 2x mental health briefings
Helen to check who MA were due to meet with at
NHSE and then discuss with Rukayah
Annette to contact Pipal Associates about creating a
secure space on the WHEC website for partners
only.
Rape Crisis to provide feedback from April on the
meetings they attend, stakeholders they meet, etc.,
which may inform WHEC work
Annette to invite Lorna Hughes, CQC to March
WHEC meeting
Annette to re-send outputs and outcomes email re:
2015/16 projects
AA doing a status report for each project
Annette to contact Marion, Naz, re: 1,000 Women
project
Sheila to send Ila case study on HIV+ women, 65
years old; AA to send email the project description
to Silvia
TA started working on Care Act briefing; AA to email
TA contacts in DoH who can help with the Care Act
Briefing
Annette to ask system partners at next SP working
day for feedback about their use of our work
Annette to write end of year 2014/15 DH report and
budget, and submit by 26 June
On-going
On-going
Done
On-going
Done
Done
Done
Done
Done
On-going
Done (waiting
for response)
Done
Done
On-going
Done; (check)
On-going;
Done
Done
Done