VOCAL; Wellbeing, Health and Social Care forum

Date: Tuesday 30th October
Time: 10.00am – 12 noon
Venue: St Sebastian’s Centre, 1 Douglas Green, Salford, M6 6ES

Booking: Book your place here.

Personal budgets are part of a wider approach to Personalisation, a mechanism

for shifting the culture and practice of care, to be better coordinated and person centred. Personal budgets help meet the challenge of changing expectations of care while promoting better quality of life and value for money.

What are the benefits of integrating the delivery of personal Budgets?  

Join us to hear: Greater Manchester’s approach to Personalisation and
Salford’s Personalisation update and way forward

This interactive session will provide an opportunity to collaborate with Commissioners and GM Personalisation leaders through shared learning.

• Zoe Porter, Delivery Lead for Person and Community Approaches, GM Health and
• Social Care Partnership
• Cliff Wilson, Integrated Commissioning Manager Salford CCG/ Salford City Council
• Charlotte Aspden, Senior Service Improvement Manager, Integrated Care System, Salford CCG  

Salford Turns Yellow to End Suicide

START, a leading mental health charity in Salford and Salford CCG flew 109 yellow flags with STARTs Reach Out; Start to End Suicide campaign one for each life lost to suicide over the last 5 years for World Suicide Prevention Week, 10th – 16th September.

The flags were carried by representatives from organisations across Salford during our procession to mark the beginning of the World Suicide Prevention Day Vigil of Remembrance, at Lowry Plaza, 6.30pm, Monday, 10th September. The flags made a powerful visual statement to the scale of lives lost to suicide in Salford.

Look out for our two posters, one identifying and supporting someone and another targeted directed to those experiencing suicidal thoughts displayed in every NHS waiting room and service provider reception across the city of Salford. The posters and flags will inspire, educate and empower Salford’s community to meaningfully connect with people around them, raise awareness, improve community attitudes and increase public dialogue on suicide, while improving the community’s resilience, saving lives and challenge stigma.

If you would like to join us in turning Salford yellow by, flying a flag, inscribing a dedication, or displaying posters for suicide prevention please contact: Dennis Baldwin, dennis.baldwin@startinspiringminds.org.uk 0161 351 6021

Help and support is available right now if you need it. You don't have to struggle with difficult feelings alone. Samaritans offer emotional support 24 hours a day. 
Tel: 116 123 (free to call) Email: jo@samaritans.org  Website: www.samaritans.org.uk

PAPYRUS the national charity dedicated to the prevention of young suicide will be delivering the 3 hour Identifying and Talking about Suicide Training course on the following dates:

• Monday 15th October, 10.00am - 1.00pm, Beacon Centre
• Monday 12th November, 10.00am - 1.00pm, Beacon Centre

Identifying and Talking about Suicide: accredited half-day (3hrs) training course that prepares participants to identify persons with thoughts of suicide, respond appropriately and effectively and connect them to support.

Training overview:

• Discussions around knowledge of suicide
• Exploration and understanding of invitations a person at risk of suicide may give
• Learn clear and practical information on how to explore suicide and respond appropriately
• Consider 'real life' scenarios
• Conclude with an emphasis on the importance of self-care

Who should attend: the course is aimed at anyone directly working or volunteering with children and young people in Salford, such as professionals from health, children's social care, housing, hospital staff, police, schools and education (FE/HE), sports and leisure staff, faith and community groups, youth workers and volunteers.

Please note that this training is only open to staff and volunteers working with Salford young people.

To book onto the training please email EHWB@salford.gov.uk stating which date you would prefer.

Self-Neglect Training – New Dates

Salford Safeguarding Adults Board is running multi-agency training on self-neglect this Autumn.

• Thursday 11th October 9am-4.30pm
• Tuesday 16th October 9am-4.30pm
• Wednesday 7th November 9am-4.30pm
• Tuesday 20th November 9am-4.30pm

Venue: The Beacon Centre, London Street, Salford, M6 6QT

Who is the training for?

All partner agencies who may work with adults on self-neglect issues including social care agencies, support staff, police, probation, fire service officers, housing, alcohol and drug services, environmental health, hospital and health services, including primary care general practice staff, district nurses, voluntary sector organisations supporting adults in the community & social care staff and any other frontline staff in community services as appropriate. 

Aim: To develop an understanding of a multi-agency approach to working with self-neglect and understand Salford’s revised policy & procedures and the tools available to support best practice.

Objectives:

• To develop an understanding of the context of self-neglect, including lessons learnt from SCR’s and SAR’s
• Understanding risk thresholds and safeguarding in the context of the Care Act 2014
• Considering the complexity of balancing the needs of adults, capacity, positive risk taking and the need for intervention to protect
• Consideration of specific good practice principles to ensure the adult remains central
• Understand ways of working specific to Salford, including an understanding of policies, procedures and best practice principles

To request a place:

Please e-mail the following information to SSABTraining@salford.gov.uk

• Name, e-mail address and contact number
• Role and Organisation
• Manager’s name and e-mail address

Places are not guaranteed.  We will notify you in writing if you are allocated a place on the course.  If you have any questions or queries, please contact us at: SSABTraining@salford.gov.uk

Staff help shape neighbourhood vision

Salford Together engaged with over 60 staff at an event in Buile Hill Park on 8th August 2018 to help scope out and begin the co-design for a more integrated approach to neighbourhood working. 

“Working together means that you might see and know things that others don’t see in your neighbourhood and opportunities to make things better, like a jigsaw you need to use all the pieces to create a whole picture” Mary Clifton, Integrated Director for Adult Social Care, Salford Care Organisation and Salford Together.

A wide range of staff including district nurses, GPs, clinicians, social care, children’s teams, hospital staff, therapists, mental health, Pharmacists  and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector came together to develop a shared view of what an integrated neighbourhood service might look like building on the current integrated structures and working relationships.  

To find out more visit Salford Together.

Government response to the recommendations of the Health and Social Care Committee’s inquiry into ‘Integrated care: organisations, partnerships and systems’

As we live longer and more of us develop complex, long term medical conditions, it is increasingly important that NHS services work together with each other and social care to ensure we get the support we need to stay well.

To support the NHS to deliver for patients across the country, the Government has announced a new five-year budget settlement for the NHS, which will see funding grow on average by 3.4% each year to 2023/24. This will mean the NHS budget will increase by over £20 billion compared with today. This additional funding will underpin a ten-year plan to guarantee the future of the NHS for the long term.

See the full details of the report here: Health and Social Care Report.

Healthwatch Salford works with you to influence and improve our health and social care services.

They want you to share your experiences to help shape services for the future. They also provide people with information and signposting support about local health and social care services. They listen to your views about the way services are designed and delivered and then pass on what they have found to the Health and Wellbeing Board and pass the recommendations to the Care Quality Commission and Healthwatch England. Their aim is to improve local services.

This year their projects were influenced by responses to their “What matters 2 you Survey”. They spoke to people at events all over Salford who told them the Top 5 areas to look at were:

• Access to Appointments – (Getting an Appointment)
• Waiting Times – (How long people wait for an appointment)
• Communication – (How health and social care services communicate with people)
• Consultation Times – (How long people wait to see a clinical professional)
• Staff Attitudes – (How people are treated by professional staff)

They are currently asking people: How easy it is to get an appointment at your surgery? The survey can be completed via this link or by picking up a copy from one of the 45 GP Surgeries across Salford. 

Other recent projects include Enter and Views at 6 Extra Care Housing Schemes in Salford and Salford Women’s Stories.

Over 2017 – 2018 Healthwatch Salford were involved with the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Transformation Strategy Engagement for Salford City Council. The Mental Healthwatch Action Group completed a Mystery shop, ringing community mental health services to find out how informative and helpful they were for a potential user. They then became involved in bespoke training of the Customer Care Team for Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust.

They also undertook projects on:

1. Evaluating care Homes, contributing to the city-wide drive for improvements. 
2. A Health Access and Homelessness engagement project with Part two to follow later this year.
3. HMP Forest Bank Prisoner Listening Engagement.

All completed reports are available on their website along with more information on how to get involved. They are currently looking for new volunteers for projects and more details about volunteer roles are available here or by phone 0330 355 0300 or email feedback@healthwatchsalford.co.uk

Crisis support in Greater Manchester has collapsed

Crisis support in Greater Manchester has collapsed, with the amount of support provided falling 92% since 2010/11 according to a major new study.

Support for vulnerable people wanting to live independently in their own homes and people facing a sudden financial crisis has collapsed in Greater Manchester with local authorities struggling to respond to demand due to the severity of central government cuts, according to a major new study by Greater Manchester Poverty Action (GMPA).

Since the government’s decision to devolve responsibility for Community Care Grants and Crisis Loans to local authorities in the form of local welfare assistance schemes in 2013, spending on this vital crisis support in Greater Manchester has fallen from £19 million in 2010/11 to £3.8 million in 2017/18.

With no ring-fenced funding or requirement on local authorities to operate schemes, some increasingly cash-strapped councils in Greater Manchester are having to cut funding for their schemes. The consequence is that local welfare assistance schemes are often run on a shoestring and have come nowhere near close to replicating the support that was available through Community Care Grants and Crisis Loans. In fact, GMPA’s analysis shows:

In Greater Manchester, there were 123,220 Crisis Loans for household items and expenditure and Community Care Grants awards made in 2010/11, compared to 10,077 successful applications for support through local welfare assistance schemes in 2017/18. A fall of 92%.

Read in full...

Filling the vacuum – the need for local child poverty strategies

On October 26th Greater Manchester Poverty Action are hosting an event looking at child and family poverty strategies. Lisa Nandy MP will be speaking at the event and we're being hosted by Kellogg's in Media City. GMPA will be presenting research looking at which local authorities across England have poverty strategies in place. The event is free to attend and open to all, but places are limited so please book as soon as possible via EventBrite.

Greater Manchester Set to Join World's Leading Cities in Tackling HIV

Historic signing of Paris Declaration at Manchester Pride launches city-region’s bid to become a Fast Track City.

Over £1 million committed to end the 300 new HIV transmissions in Greater Manchester every year.

Greater Manchester is to join a global network of cities spearheading the fight against HIV.

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham unveiled the plan for the city-region to become part of the Fast Track Cities network as he spoke at the Manchester Pride Candlelit Vigil, where thousands of people came together in Sackville Gardens to remember those lost to HIV and stand united against the challenges facing LGBT communities.

In launching the application, the Mayor set out the bold plan to end all new cases of HIV in Greater Manchester residents within 25 years.

We, as Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, are working with a broad network of communities and partners, to achieve this through a £1.3 million programme of targeted support for people living with HIV or most at risk.

Actions being introduced from later this year include:

• Encouraging the use of PrEP and PEP medication amongst the most at-risk groups, which has been proven to stop HIV in its tracks
• Establishing new peer-led services and support tailored to individual needs
• Substantially increasing screening and testing at home, in the community and through sexual health services
• 
  Maximising prompt and effective treatment for those diagnosed; and
• Challenging stigmas and other social and cultural barriers that prevent people accessing testing and support.
• Further promoting and encouraging safer sex practices.

As a Fast Track City, Greater Manchester would join more than 250 others from across the globe to take combined action, share best practice and tackle discrimination. These cities typically have significant numbers of people living with HIV.

Read in full on the GMHSC Partnership website.

Greater Manchester VCSE Mental Health Forum

Including dementia, perinatal, children and young people and adult mental health.

The GM Mental Health VCSE (Voluntary, Community, Social Enterprise) Forum, links directly with the implementation of the Greater Manchester Mental Health Strategy. The foum meetings have been designed to ensure that the fullest range of VCSE partners, involved with delivering emotional wellbeing and mental health support (including dementia support) to children, young people, adults and families across Greater Manchester have a chance to understand, influence and implement the strategy. Also, to ensure inclusion, transparency and accountability across and within the VCSE sector.

The next meeting of the GM Mental Health Forum is being held on 17th October 2018 at the Friends Meeting House from 10.00 - 13.00 in Manchester, M2 5NS. Further information relating to this event including content information and a timed programme will be made available in due course, however if you wish to book your delegate place in the meantime please do so by clicking on the 'Register Now' button at the top or bottom of this page.  

Please note, as this event is likely to be very popular, only one delegate place can be offered to each VCSE organisation in order to ensure that as many organisations can attend as possible from across GM. Multiple registrations from the same organisation will be rejected. 

When: Thursday 8th November, 2018 10:00 AM   through   1:00 PM

Where: GMCVO, St Thomas Centre, Ardwick Green North, Manchester, M12 6FZ

(PLEASE NOTE, this event was previously scheduled to have been held on the 17th October 2018 at the Friends Meeting House in Manchester.)

Book your place.

Do you know a younger person living with dementia?

Manchester Camerate would like to hear from you!

Join in and create an original piece of music theatre that will:

• Tour arts, community and health settings in Greater Manchester
• Raise awareness about living well with young onset dementia
• Prompt discussions about how to make improvements in the long term

Initial workshops will take place weekly on Tuesdays, early afternoon from 6th November.

Contact Jacqui Barnes if you are interested in the project.

0161 226 8696

jbarnes@manchestercamerata.com

Disabled people are getting active together through a new scheme in Salford.

Empower You supports disabled people to take part in activities they may otherwise find hard to attend: everything from gardening and cycling groups to intensive gym workouts.

The new group-based approach builds on earlier success of a one-to-one model, which has been incubated by local social enterprise, Unlimited Potential.

Funding by Salford CVS with support from NHS Salford Clinical Commissioning Group will enable Empower You, to support more disabled people – and carers – to be more active. It will engage already established groups in communities, groups and organisations across the city.

“We know that disabled people are twice as likely to be inactive as non-disabled people yet 70% would like to be more active”

said Ben Andrews, Project Manager and founder of Empower You. “Empower You creates new opportunities for disabled people to improve their health and well-being, therefore reducing avoidable demand on NHS and social care services.”

One agency interested in working alongside Empower You is Aspire. Nigel Johnson, Business and Development Officer, said

“Unlike traditional activities, Empower You considers people’s motivations. This means that people stay active after the end of the structured programme.”

If you feel that Empower You might benefit a group you are part of, know or setting up, or to get more details about Empower You, please contact Ben Andrews by ben.andrews@unlimitedpotential.org.uk or on 07482 990378.

Dementia is a growing issue and concern for societies across the world.

The number of people living with dementia worldwide currently stands at 35.6 million, and is expected to double by 2030, and triple by 2050. Our ageing population means that dementia will affect an increasing number of people over the coming decades and represents one of the major health and social care challenges facing the United Kingdom. Dementia is a progressive life limiting condition; many people who live with dementia, will die from dementia. Given that dementia is associated with many distressing symptoms that impact on patients and their families, palliative care lends itself to caring them.

Key Messages

• Dementia is recognised as a worldwide health priority. Our ageing population means that it will affect an increasing number of people over the coming decades. Many people who live with dementia die from dementia. According to the WHO, palliative care has two main aims: (i) to improve quality of life of patients and families and (ii) to prevent and relieve suffering. This is irrespective of disease group. Given that dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative, life-limiting disease, palliative care is highly appropriate for those who live with it, die with it, and their families.
• The United Kingdom is now home to many people who categorise themselves as being from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups. They represent one fifth of the total population. There are great variations in the concentrations of those from BAME groups in different geographical locations, the highest being in London.
• Demographic ageing means increasing numbers of people from BAME communities are getting older. Predictions estimate that by 2026 In England and Wales there will be over 1.3 million people from BAME groups aged 65+, compared to over half a million in 2001; in 2026 almost half a million will be aged 70+ years.
• Little is known about the relative prevalence of dementia among BAME groups, although there is a growing body of evidence that the Black African-Caribbean community in the UK has a higher prevalence of vascular dementia than other communities. Beyond evidence from United States, principally among African-Americans and Asian groups, little research has examined the palliative care needs of people of BAME groups who are dying with dementia, and their families. This research has identified that when compared to white patients, artificial nutrition and other life-sustaining treatments were more frequently requested by African American and Asian groups, whereas decisions to withhold treatment were less common.
• This absence of UK-based research cannot continue. An epidemiological needs assessment must take place to quantify current and future needs of BAME groups with dementia at the end of life. Moreover, research must examine person-centered needs for palliative and end of life care among BAME communities, their knowledge and awareness of palliative care and its benefits, the training of health care professionals in cultural competence and skilled communication when working with people living with, and dying from dementia within different cultural groups, and the evaluation of services to identify good practice.

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Practical problems, such as losing one’s home or facing redundancy at work, can worsen people’s mental health and quality of life.

Primary care and mental health services are seeing an increase in clients with practical problems that take up significant clinical time.    

This brief presents a review of case notes submitted by our advisors on what challenges people with mental health needs face in their everyday life and when accessing healthcare in the community. It also forms a part of policy series on mental health.

This brief identifies five key challenges:

1. People with mental health problems are more likely to face practical challenges, such as struggling with debt, having problems to access benefits, or being unable to work due to an illness or a disability. 
2. Additional costs associated with poor mental health often can make it more difficult to manage financially. This includes unexpected costs such as having to pay for medical evidence to support an application for welfare benefits, a prescription penalty charge, or travel expenses to attend mental health appointments.
3. Community support before and after mental health treatment is often  limited or not available to assist people with their practical problems, which could  worsen their mental health  
4. Ethnic minority groups tend to face more barriers to access mental health support. Having a pending immigration status or more complex practical issues can make it more difficult for this group to access mental health support.   
5. Carers tend to have poor experience of community mental health support.  Not being informed about what community support is available for carers, or not being kept informed about decisions related to their caring role can make managing caring responsibilities more challenging.

Read the Citizens Advice mental health insights: people’s experience of community mental health support [ 450 kb] - full report.

Peri-natal Infant Mental Health Everyone’s Concern

Free event with an opportunity to attend two workshops.

Date: Friday 16th November 2018 | Time: 8 .30am – 4.00pm

Venue: Jean McFarlane Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, M13 9PL

Lunch provided

• Learn about key issues in relation to Peri-natal Infant Mental Health
• Share good practice and meet colleagues in the field
• Identify new resources

Keynote speaker:

• Robin Balbernie - Clinical Director, Parent Infant Partnership (PIP) UK - Robin will speak on early brain development and Risks, Relationships and Repair

Conference Chair:

• Steven Prymachuk – Professor of Mental Health Nursing, University of Manchester

Workshops will cover topics such as loneliness,early interventions and resources for parents

Workshop facilitators will include:

• The Essential Parent team,
• Home-Start Oldham,
• Stockport & Tameside (HOST) and
• Professor Adrian Sutton of the Squiggle Foundation

Register for a place.

Please note that registering for this event does not guarantee a place. 

Women’s Mental Health Grant

Mind and Agenda have launched a £1.3m women’s mental health peer support grants programme. The programme responds to the needs of disadvantaged women, particularly those experiencing multiple disadvantage, who are frequently under-represented in services. Covering England and Wales, the programme aims to fund: organisations to facilitate peer support initiatives; capacity building; and knowledge ‘Hubs’ to support and promote delivery of women’s mental health peer support.

The deadline for applications is 15th October.

Find out more here.

The programme aims to amplify the voices of individuals and groups who are calling for an end to sexual harassment and abuse, in their workplaces and in their communities.

The Justice and Equality Fund aims to bring an end to the culture of harassment, abuse and impunity by resourcing an expert network of advice, support and advocacy organisations and projects. Inspired by the phenomenal campaigners of #metoo, TIME’s UP, Ni Nunca Mas, the #lifeinleggings movements and others, a group of UK-based women from the entertainment industry have come together to challenge the culture that permits people in positions of power to sexually harass and abuse others.

Rosa want to resource imaginative, collaborative and creative grassroots activism so they are asking organisations to partner up and apply by answering the question: What would you do towards ending sexual harassment in workplaces and in communities?

They will only accept partnership applications to this, the large grant programme. You can apply for a grant over one to three years.

Find out more and apply...

Tampon Tax Community Fund

Grants offered

• Between £5,000 and £10,000
• For a duration of up to 12 months
• For UK based organisations with a local or community reach
• Meet one or more of the Tampon Tax Community Fund objectives

Deadline: Monday, 5 November, 2018

The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls. 

Aims

The Tampon Tax Community Fund aims to support women who are most marginalised to overcome barriers that prevent them from fulfilling their potential. The Programme will benefit women and girls, investing in a wide variety of products, that make a tangible and long-term difference to health, well-being, confidence and social/economic activity, as well as addressing equality gaps.

This programme aims to fund small-scale interventions, which will make a considerable difference to the lives and happiness of women and girls by raising the aspirations of girls and women and combating the influences that affect their confidence.

Find out more...