6 - Director's Report 25-8-22 FINAL
North Ayrshire Council · 25 August 2022
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Integration Joint Board 25th August 2022 Subject : Director’s Report Purpose : This report is for awareness to advise members of North Ayrshire Integration Joint Board (IJB) of developments within North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership (NAHSCP) Recommendation : IJB members are asked to note progress made to date. Direction Required to Council, Health Board or Both Direction to :- 1. No Direction Required X 2. North Ayrshire Council 3. NHS Ayrshire & Arran 4. North Ayrshire Council and NHS Ayrshire & Arran Glossary of Terms NHS AA NHS Ayrshire and Arran IJB Integration Joint Board HSCP Health and Social Care Partnership WRO Welfare Rights Officer MARAC Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference NCS National Care Service 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1.1 This report informs members of the Integration Joint Board (IJB) of the work undertaken within North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership (NAHSCP), nationally, locally and Ayrshire wide. 2. BACKGROUND 2.1 This report provides IJB with up to date information on recent activity across the HSCP since the last IJB. The report will also provide COVID related information by exception.
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3. CURRENT POSITION National Developments 3.1 National Suicide Statistics Released On Tuesday 2 August, the National Suicide Statistics were released for Scotland for 2021. There were 753 probable suicides registered in Scotland in 2021, which is a decrease from 805 in 2020, with 27 people having sadly died by taking their own life in North Ayrshire during that period. To read more about the National Suicide Statistics for 2021, visit the Scottish Public Health Observatory website. In the same period the statistics for drug related deaths and alcohol related deaths have also been released. A report will be presented to a future IJB to outline the work underway in North Ayrshire for all three of these areas. Consultations/Calls for Views 3.2 State of Caring 2022 Survey Carers UK have launched their State of Caring 2022 survey. Responses from carers will help the charity to build a picture of what caring is like at the moment, and they are keen to hear from as many different carers as possible. The annual State of Caring survey is the UK’s most comprehensive research into the lives and experience of carers. Carers UK want to understand carers’ priorities for the future and determine the support required to help carers recover from the pandemic. The survey, which you can access online here, will close on Friday 9 September and a research report will be released in November. If you have any questions, please get in touch with the Carers UK policy team by emailing policy@carersuk.org 3.3 Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy The Scottish Government is currently gathering views on what a new Mental Health and Well-being Strategy for Scotland should look like. You can take part in the consultation online here.
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The strategy will guide the work that the Government and its partners will do to improve mental health and well-being in Scotland. This will include an overall shared vision, a set of outcomes, and details on how these will be achieved. The consultation period closes on Friday 9 September. North Ayrshire HSCP are currently consulting with partner agencies to develop an Ayrshire and Arran Mental Health Services response to the consultation. 3.4 National Care Service Committees in the Scottish Parliament have launched a Call for Views and a Your Priorities digital consultation on the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill. More information about the Bill and links to the Call for Views and the Your Priorities digital consultation can be found here: https://yourviews.parliament.scot/health/ncs There are two options for those wishing to participate in this public consultation: 1. Call for Views This includes general questions about the Bill, questions about the Financial Memorandum and the option to provide more detailed comments on individual sections of the Bill. It is primarily aimed at groups and organisations who are looking to input their views on the Bill. A direct weblink to the call for views is available here: https://yourviews.parliament.scot/health/national-care-service-bill 2. Your Priorities digital consultation This offers an opportunity to ask questions or to highlight specific hopes or concerns about the Bill. Respondents can also rate specific provisions in the Bill (agree, disagree, don’t know) and make brief comments about them. The Your Priorities digital consultation offers an opportunity for individual members of the public to give their views about the Bill. If you represent a membership organisation and would like support using the Your Priorities digital consultation with your members or would like to receive a 'conversation toolkit' to support a group discussion about the Bill in your community, please email our Participation and Communities Team at pact@parliament.scot. Both the Call for Views and the Your Priorities digital consultation will close on Friday 2 September. A report on the HSCP response to the consultation will be presented to the IJB on 22nd September. IJB members will have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion on the Bill and NCS developments at the IJB development session planned for 22nd September 2022.
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Ayrshire Wide Developments 3.5 Awards – NHS Scotland Event The NHS Scotland Event is the leading health event in Scotland, providing an opportunity for those working in the NHS to come together and share best practice. Two of our services within mental health won awards for poster submissions highlighting their innovative approach to delivering high quality care. The Perinatal Mental Health Service, The Maternity and Neonatal Psychology Interventions (MNPI) Service and the Maternity Liaison Service won the People’s Choice Award, illustrating the development and integration of these three services to meet the needs of families in the perinatal period. The Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service won the Integrated Award for their poster highlighting the collaboration with leisure services to enable families to participate in leisure programmes within their own communities and reduce health inequalities. 3.6 Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) The planning and implementation phase for MARAC is nearing completion. Ayrshire MARAC Go Live date was 1st August 2022. A number of preparatory events have taken place to support staff for go live including a half day walkthrough event, 3 x mock MARAC meetings, Safe Lives MARAC trainers training, and 20 x sessions of the use of DASH Ric (screening tool). In total approximately 500 staff from across a number of agencies have received an input in preparation for MARAC go live. In addition a number of resources have been developed and are now available for staff on intranet sites, including Operating Procedures, Practitioner Guidance and an Information Sharing Agreement. The Ayrshire MARAC Implementation Group have been crucial in their oversight role and are now preparing to stand down. This group will hand over to a new Ayrshire MARAC Governance Group. The governance structure for this group is noted below.
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The MARAC Governance group will meet every 2 months from October 2022 (the last Implementation group is August 2022). The MARAC Coordination will collate performance data and report this bi-monthly. North Ayrshire Developments 3.7 Welfare Rights Officers in Schools Building on the successful approach of the HSCP Money Matters team being embedded alongside front-line services, a partnership agreement between NAC Education, HCSP Children & Families and HSCP Money Matters Team resulted in the delivery of welfare rights services for 2 years in 7 of North Ayrshire Council’s Secondary Schools (Arran High, Garnock Campus, Greenwood Academy, Irvine Royal Academy, Kilwinning Academy, Largs Academy). The Welfare Rights Officer, was appointed in August 2021 and was involved in discussions with head teachers a range of activities to raise awareness and promote the service. These included :- • Meetings with all school guidance staff, family learning teams, school social workers and school nurses, • Attendance at Parent Council Meetings. • Information session with parents • Promotion of service via social media inc. animations / graphics and local newspapers; • Sharing of good news stories / outcomes for families who have used service. • Review meetings with schools to provide service review and updates on referrals etc. • Training and briefings for school staff on relevant topics.
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To date over £38k has been secured for parents / carers which has been generated from 17 benefit claim outcomes including claims & supersessions to Council Tax Reductions, EMA, School Meals, PIP, Scottish Welfare Fund, Carers Allowance, DHP, Income Support and Universal Credit. The WRO also assisted with disabled children access disability benefits by challenging a negative Child Disability Living Allowance decision at the mandatory revision stage and a redetermination of the SSSA Child Disability Payment. 3.8 New Wellbeing Instagram Account In June, the HSCP launched a new Instagram page, aimed at promoting positive mental well-being for North Ayrshire residents. The Daily Positive North Ayrshire page will feature a mix of well-being tips and advice, as well as information/signposting about our services and those of local groups and charities, with plans for takeover days and much more. The page can be found by searching for @daily_positivena on Instagram. If you have anything you’d like featured on the page, contact nicolateager@north- ayrshire.gov.uk or michaelmclennan@north-ayrshire.gov.uk 3.9 National Portrait Gallery North Ayrshire has continued to develop its Partnership with the National Portrait Gallery through the “Life Hacks” Project. The premise of the Life Hacks project was making life affirming artwork with young people in North Ayrshire. The artwork will be made for public spaces and involve young people from youth groups and with links to Health and Social care services. The projects have been fun; produced by young people working with professional artists and the artwork exhibited.
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The final artworks produced on the project evolved from discussions with artist Iman Tajik relating to a performance video work of Tajik’s, A to B, that illustrates the frustrating effects of borders and barriers created by people, between people. For the North Ayrshire versions young people were invited to use colourful biodegradable ribbons and tapes, to create huge temporary installations, very quickly. They transformed places, objects, and people with bright lines, fixing people to structures and making three dimensional scribbles on the landscape. The project, Life hacks, funded by Youth Link's Youth work recovery fund, worked with around 450 young people, including Rosemount project at Meadowcroft, Syrian resettlement programme, Irvine Royal Academy, several youth forums and young people and their families from Children's First. The young people’s work with the Life Hacks Project is currently on display in the National Portrait Gallery as part of the You are Here 2022 exhibition, which will run until the 8th January 2023. This display celebrates and shares recent and ongoing collaborative projects between the National Galleries of Scotland and partner organisations across the country. They include place-based initiatives with groups of young people in former mining towns, and life-affirming public art schemes in North Ayrshire. 3.10 New Support resource for Staff Affected by the Death of a Young Person by Suicide Each death by suicide is a tragic and traumatic event for those around the person and beyond. The impact spreads far and wide and can continue for a long time. The North Ayrshire Young People’s Suicide Taskforce has been working with staff from across many services who have been impacted by the death of a young person, as well as with Child Bereavement UK, to produce a support resource for any worker who finds themselves affected or impacted by a suicide of a young person.
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The resource is available to download through the link below. The document will also be available on Connects soon, along with an accessible version. Death of a young person by suicide – a support guide for professionals COVID Update 3.11 Vaccination and Immunisation Update Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) have issued an update on the Covid-19 vaccination programme for Autumn 2022. The statement which was released on Friday 15th July confirms the following eligible cohorts:- • Residents in a care home for older adults and staff working in care homes for older adults • Frontline health and social care workers • All adults aged 50 years and over (previously 65) • Persons aged 5 to 49 years in a clinical risk group, as set out in the Green Book (previously 16) • Persons aged 5 to 49 years who are household contacts of people with immunosuppression (previously 16) • Persons aged 16 to 49 years who are carers, as set out in the Green Book • “In order to optimise protection over the winter months, the autumn programme should aim to complete vaccinations by the start of December 2022. Operational flexibility will apply in relation to vaccine supply, promotion of vaccine uptake and prioritisation for vaccination according to underlying risk of severe COVID-19.” NHS Ayrshire & Arran will process the Covid Vaccination Programme alongside the Flu Vaccination Programme. Flu and Covid vaccinations for health and social care staff (HSCP) working in the community will this year be delivered by the mass vaccination service (MVS) whilst Occupational Health concentrates on delivery across acute sites ie Crosshouse Hospital, Ayr Hospital and Ayrshire Central Hospital. The programme is to commence during week beg. 5th September, with staff being asked to book an appointment for a local clinic through the national booking portal (with improvements made to the portal following feedback from last year’s programme). The national communications programme will commence from 22nd August, inviting eligible staff to make an appointment. Further information to follow.
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4. IMPLICATIONS 4.1 Financial None 4.2 Human Resources None 4.3 Legal None 4.4 Equality/Socio-Economic None 4.5 Risk None 4.6 Community Wealth Building None 4.7 Key Priorities None 5. CONSULTATION No specific consultation was required for this report. User and public involvement is key for the partnership and all significant proposals will be subject to an appropriate level of Consultation. Caroline Cameron, Director [Carolinecameron@north-ayrshire.gov.uk/01294 317723]