The Care Forum North Somerset December 2014 e-bulletin
Welcome to the The Care Forum North Somerset e-bulletin supporting mental health
and wellbeing voluntary and community groups in North Somerset.
Contents
Local Events
Local Information
Training
Funding
National Information
Publications and resources
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Voluntary Sector Development Officer.
anne-marieholland@thecareforum.org.uk
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Local Events
Local Events
The Care Forum North Somerset Mental
Health Voluntary and Community Sector
Network Meeting
Wednesday 10 December, 9.30am–
12pm, Vintage Church, 25 Hughenden
Road, Weston super Mare, BS23 2UR.
W: http://tinyurl.com/n5g34pe
VANS AGM
Wednesday 3 December 1-2pm Locking
Castle Church, WSM
To book E: info@vansmail.org.uk
Tenth ‘Your North Somerset’ Event
Sunday 25 January 2015, 12-4pm,
Winter Gardens, Weston super Mare. T:
01275 888 561
Local Information
North Somerset Clinical Commissioning
New VANS Interim Chief Executive Officer
Cara MacMahon is due to become the new
Interim Chief Executive Officer of Voluntary
Action North Somerset (VANS) in
November, taking over from Rebecca
Mear. Cara was formerly Deputy Manager
for Community Service Volunteers Media in
the North West, Director of the Watershed
Media Centre in Bristol, Subject Leader
and
Principal Lecturer in Arts Management at
De Montfort University in Leicester, Senior
Consultant with ABL Consulting London and
Strategic Fund Manager for Knightstone
Housing Association.
W: http://tinyurl.com/lsmwhfj
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North Somerset Health Trainers North
Somerset has the seventh largest inequality
health gap in the country with some areas
falling in the top one per cent most deprived
in the country. Areas of deprivation are
mainly focussed within Weston-super-Mare,
particularly in central and south wards.
Health Trainers were established in order to
address health inequality of socially
disadvantaged groups including the
offending population. Latest results show an
increase in use of the service and some
very positive statistics highlighting the
benefit of the service they offer, including
78% of people achieving or part achieving
their primary goals. A range of support and
advice is available on topics including
healthy eating, increasing physical activity,
sensible drinking, stopping smoking,
improving emotional health and wellbeing
and signposting. To use the service people
must be 18 years and over and live in
Weston-super-Mare.
To see a Health Trainer at the Town Hall no
appointments are necessary during dropins 12-2pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday.
To book an appointment at other times
contact T: 01934 627250
E: Health.Trainers@nsomerset.gcsx.gov. uk
For appointments at The For All Healthy
Living Centre
T 01934 427426
E: Health.Trainers@nsomerset.gcsx.gov. uk For individuals
working with Probation and living in Weston,
the link Health Trainer is Debbie Stone T:
01275 885645 E: Deborah.Stone@nsomerset.gcsx.gov.
uk
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New Community Resource in
Local Information
Health trainers will be in the reception area
of the Town Hall on Thursday 11 December
from 10am-3pm with a Christmas themed
event. Keep this date free and drop by for
some festive surprises.
New Dementia Monthly Drop-In The new
Clevedon Dementia Hub offers monthly
sessions in the summer house at
Clevedon Community Hospital. The
sessions will take place from 2.30-4.30pm
on Tuesdays on 9 December, 13 January,
10 February and 10 March. The sessions
are open to all and provide support and
information to people who are worried
about memory and the stigma that is often
attached to this condition. Friends,
relatives and carers who might be worried
about someone are also welcome.
Dementia Friends Session Monday 8
December 12.30-1.15pm. An interactive 45
minute dementia awareness session,
where people can discuss simple steps we
can all take to help build a dementia
friendly community. The venue is Badger
House Enterprise Centre, Oldmixon
Crescent, Weston-super-Mare, North
Somerset BS24 9AY For more
information on the session, contact
Hayley: T: 01934 414214
E: hayley.scurr@alzheimers.org.uk
The Women’s Project Becomes the
Reclaim Project
On 1 December the Women’s Project will
become the Reclaim Project, and offers
support for women affected by domestic
abuse in North Somerset.
W: www.reclaimfromabuse.org
Westonsuper-Mare
Pathways Support and Community
Association has opened a community
based resource at 92 Meadow Street in
the centre of Weston-super-Mare. The
space is bright and welcoming with IT
facilities. The CRIB wants to involve the
whole of the local Recovery community in
using this valuable facility. The CRIB is
available for hire at very reasonable rates
and flexible times, including evenings by
arrangement. If your group is interested in
knowing more please contact Rodney T:
01934 414700 M: 07597 130723 E:
Rodney@pathways.uk.net
Age UK Lunch Club
Sundays 14 December and 11 January
10am-12pm at Emmanuel Church, Oxford
Street, Weston-super-Mare. Lunch and
exercises.
Drop-in Energy Advice
Free advice on how to stay warm this
winter. Tuesday 16 December 1-4pm at
Weston super Mare Town Hall
W: www.cse.org.uk/advice
T: 0800 082 2234
Friend Drop-In for Mental Health Needs
Friend’s Drop-In services at WestonsuperMare and Clevedon offer members a safe
place where they can relax in the
knowledge that it is a confidential
environment where they will not be judged
or stigmatised because of their mental
health issues. People who are new to
Friend need to book an appointment with
a Worker to discuss what we can offer.
Training
Drop In Weston-super-Mare
Monday, Wednesday and Friday 12-4pm,
Contact Caroline T: 01934 622292
E: centreworker@friendcmhrc.com
Drop In Clevedon
Monday, Tuesday and Friday 12-4pm,
Contact Becci T: 01275 342368
E: outreachworker@friendcmhrc.com
Positive Step Courses
Positive Step offers a range of courses to
support emotional wellbeing, for example
self esteem and stress and mood
management.
W: http://tinyurl.com/lczndc3
Healthwatch North Somerset Drop In
Sessions
These are for people to share concerns
or praise about health and social
services and find out about
Healthwatch’s role in shaping and
supporting Health and Social Care
services in North Somerset.
• Portishead Library, 10 December,
10am-12pm
• Yatton Library, 11 December, 10am12pm
• Langford, Burrington and Rickford, 16
December (The Old Post Office, Langford
10.30-11am; The Square, Burrington
11:10-11:55am ; The Waterfall Rickford,
12-12.30pm)
Reminder: Service User Views Sought
on the Primary Care Mental Health
Liaison Service
North Somerset Clinical Commissioning
Group (CCG) is keen to hear the views
of Primary Care Mental Health Liaison
Service (PCLS) service users, to ensure
that the quality of service is further
improved.
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A short questionnaire which will form part
of the evaluation of PCLS has been
developed by an independent team of
people who have used, or are using
mental health services. The questionnaire
will be distributed to people on discharge
from the service between September and
November. The online survey is open until
Sunday 14 December.
W: www.surveymonkey.com/s/3HXKR9S
New Area Profiles for Bristol,
B&NES, North Somerset and South
Gloucestershire
The Quartet Community Foundation has
produced four area profiles of social need in
Bristol, North Somerset, B&NES and South
Gloucestershire.
W: http://tinyurl.com/plmjwpa
For information on other community
groups, activities and events see W:
http://tinyurl.com/phkad23
Training and Workshops
North Somerset Council Training Open to
the Voluntary and Community Sector E:
socialcare.training@n-somerset.gov.uk
Level 1 Safeguarding Adults: Awareness
Update Course. Half day course.
Wednesday 17 December, pm.
Level 2 Safeguarding Adults for Provider
Services. One day course. Wednesday 11
February, Wednesday 25 March. This
course is the main training for managers of
provider services who need to respond to
allegations of abuse.
Person Centred Care Friday 12 December,
10am-12.30pm.
Regional News
Dignity in Care Wednesday 4 March,
10am–12.30pm.
Complex Needs and Difficult Decisions in
Dementia Care One day course.
Tuesday 6 January; Tuesday 3 February.
Direct Payment Awareness Training
Thursday 26 March, 9.30am–12.30pm.
Managing and Assessing Risk in Adult
Social Care Practice One day course.
Wednesday 4 February.
Mental Capacity Act Awareness. Half day
course. Thursday 22 January, am; Monday
9 February, pm; Tuesday 10 March, am.
Social Care E-Learning Courses
Free of charge (Safeguarding and Skills
and Knowledge for Care only) to all health,
social care and housing organisations in
North Somerset.
Safeguarding
• Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable
Adults: Basic Awareness
• Safeguarding Adults: for health, social
care and housing staff
• Safeguarding Adults: recording for
providers
• Safeguarding Adults: recording for
Safeguarding co-ordinators
Skills and knowledge for care
• Mental Capacity Act
• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
• Fair Access to Care Services (FACS)
2010
• Dementia Awareness – 7 module
course from SCIE and Alzheimer’s
Society
• Carers Awareness
• Autism Awareness
You will need access to a computer with
internet access, sound and Flash Player 6
or above installed.
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Email natasha.budd@n-somerset.gov.uk
for your individual username and password.
Go to W: http://nsomerset.learningpool.
com/
Click on the Social Care box on the left
hand side of the page.
Click on the link for the relevant course.
The course will open in a new window.
Funding
BBC Children in Need - Main Grants
Programme
Annual deadlines: 15 January; 15 May;
and 15 September. Grants for not-forprofit
organisations that are working with
disadvantaged children and young people
who are 18 years old and younger living in
the UK. W: http://tinyurl.com/l6ofo9n
National Information,
publications and resources
Report on Depiction of Mental health in
TV Soaps and Dramas
A report by Time to Change shows mental
health is being covered more frequently
compared to a previous study in 2010, more
storylines have attempted to depict mental
health problems more accurately and fewer
characters with a mental illness are
portrayed as violent.
W: http://tinyurl.com/lrlsoan
Autism Statutory Guidance Consultation
Launched
The government is seeking views on
proposed new statutory guidance to
local authorities and NHS organisations,
to support the implementation of ‘Think
up to the level recommended in national
guidance. The report also considers the
effects on children’s development in the
womb and during the crucial early years.
W: http://tinyurl.com/o6d79m9
Dementia Friendly Communities
National Information
Autism’, the update to the 2010 adult
autism strategy. The consultation closes
on 19 December.
W: http://preview.tinyurl.com/ojl6gjh
Work on Autism Awareness
The Autism Alliance UK has been selected
to raise national awareness of autism and
will receive up to £200,000 of funding over
the next few months. It will work with private
and public organisations to raise the profile
of autism, advise health and care
professionals, businesses and community
groups and create an autism ‘champions
network’ of people to raise awareness
among
their
professional
and
organisational
networks.
W:
http://tinyurl.com/lpp83bt
Maternal Health and Wellbeing:
Examining
Key Influences, Impacts and Routes to
Better Health for Children and Their
Mothers This briefing reports on a recent
seminar on maternal health and wellbeing.
W: http://tinyurl.com/oz99ut3
The Costs of Perinatal Mental Health
Problems
This study of the effects of maternal
depression, anxiety and other illnesses
advises that substandard mental health
care for pregnant women and new
mothers is creating long-term costs of
more than £8bn every year yet the NHS
would need to spend just £337 million a
year to bring perinatal mental health care
The Mental Health Foundation has a project
to gather information about processes and
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practices in developing dementia friendly
communities and similar initiatives and
would like to hear views from those involved
in developing dementia friendly
communities or similar initiatives at local,
regional or national levels.
W: http://tinyurl.com/m5qwnpy
For information on dementia
friendly communities:
W: http://tinyurl.com/lvrcohm
New Dementia Partnership to Help
Dementia Research
Dementias Platform UK is a
multimillionpound collaboration between
industry and academia bringing together
leading researchers from UK universities
and drugs development companies to
discuss better diagnosis initiatives,
treatments and understanding of its
progression. It will look at the causes of
dementia across a range of
neurodegenerative conditions, including
Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Motor
Neurone Disease following millions of
pounds of investment from the government
for new technologies.
W: http://tinyurl.com/khc4rnj
Dementia Research
Alzheimer’s Disease International have
published a report that looks at the evidence
behind certain risk factors for dementia, and
talks about where the evidence is clearest.
W: http://tinyurl.com/pdntljo. Other recent
Dementia research is available at
W: http://tinyurl.com/l3ub5os
Policy Paper: Carers Strategy: Actions
for 2014 to 2016
This explains the progress on supporting
carers since 2010, and describes the
main actions for the next 2 years. W:
http://tinyurl.com/m5lwhfa
and robustly tackling tuberculosis and
antimicrobial/ antibiotic resistance.
W: http://tinyurl.com/ldxk8tv
The Role of the NHS in Tackling Poverty
and the Wider Determinants of Health
The King’s Fund has published ‘Tackling
Poverty’ a paper on the wider role of the
NHS in tackling poverty and the wider
determinants of health.
National Information
The NHS Five Year Forward View This
was published on 23 October and sets out
a vision for how the NHS needs to change
over the next five years if it is to close the
widening gaps in the health of the
population, quality of care and the funding
of services. The Five Year Forward View
shows why change is needed, what that
change might look like and how it can be
achieved. It describes various models of
care which could be provided in the
future, defining the actions required at
local and national level to support
delivery. Everyone will need to play their
part – system leaders, NHS staff, patients
and the public. It covers areas such as
disease prevention; new, flexible models
of service delivery tailored to local
populations and needs; integration
between services; and consistent
leadership across the health and care
system.
W: http://tinyurl.com/nnpuemh
Public Health England (PHE) Seven
Priorities Published
‘Evidence into action: protecting and
improving the nation’s health’ sets out
PHE’s seven priorities over the next five
years to make greater progress on
obesity, smoking, alcohol, assuring a
better start in life, reducing dementia risk
W: http://tinyurl.com/kudy8o6
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Public Consultation on Professional Duty
of Candour
The General Medical Council and the
Nursing and Midwifery Council have
launched a public consultation on draft joint
guidance designed to support doctors,
nurses and midwives in fulfilling the
professional duty of candour. All healthcare
professionals have a duty of candour – a
responsibility to be honest with people in
their care when things go wrong. The
consultation is open until 5 January 2015,
with the aim of publishing new joint
guidance in March 2015.
W: http://tinyurl.com/lvfmhgw
Improving Impact Practice
‘Putting ‘the Code’ into Practice’ is a
collection of experiences from individuals at
Samaritans, Safe Ground, and British Heart
Foundation among others, who are working
to improve their impact practice. W:
http://tinyurl.com/pff965f
Recovery from Self-Harm App
The ‘Recovery from Self-harm’ app is
designed to be discrete and accessible to
those increasingly struggling with
selfharm. The app is available from the
Apple App store and it can be downloaded
for free on any Apple device. It can be
found by searching for “Recovery from
selfharm”. Users can have immediate
access to websites, online support groups
and contacts, videos of professionals
giving advice helping them to seek
support and recovery. There is also a fact
or fiction exercise about the
misconceptions and facts of self-harm.
W: http://tinyurl.com/pmwt8sa
New What Works Centre for Wellbeing
The independent centre will commission
universities to research the impact that W:
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Direct Payments Resources
‘Trust is the key: increasing the uptake of
direct payments’ is a report with case
studies on latest guidance for increasing
the uptake of direct payments. W:
http://tinyurl.com/qdy9gdc
‘Best
practice in direct payments support’ has
The Care Forum, The Vassall Centre, Gill Avenue,
examples of innovative practice in
Fishponds, Bristol BS16 2QQ.
commissioning direct payments and
support for their take-up.
different interventions and services have on
wellbeing. W: http://tinyurl.com/m83k2hz
Expanded Troubled Families Health Offer
New guidance launched on 5 November will
help health teams support the mental and
physical health needs of troubled families
and work with local councils.
W: http://tinyurl.com/lyc86zo
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Gill Avenue, Fishponds,
Bristol, BS16 2QQ
T: 0117 965 4444
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