Meeting documents

MEMBERS PRESENT

 

Chiltern District Council

 

Mimi Harker, Nick Rose (Chairman), Jeremy Ryman and Jonathan Rush 

 

South Bucks District Council

 

Anita Cranmer, Earl of Stockton, Nick Naylor, Alan Walters and Jennifer Woolveridge

 

Bucks County Council Members

 

Adrian Busby and Roger Reed

 

Parish/ Town Councils

 

Janet Simmonds     Beaconsfield Town Council

Chris Brown              Gerrards Cross Parish Council

Vinny Patel               Little Chalfont Parish Council

Stephen Pearson    Chesham Town Council

Richard Darlington Seer Green Parish Council

John Axon                Ashley Green Parish Council

Anne Hewett                         Great Missenden

Derek Baker              Hedgerley Parish Council

Marilyn Heath                       Denham Parish Council

 

Voluntary/ Community Sector

Liz Wright                              Chilterns Citizen Advice Bureau

 

Bucks Fire and Rescue Service

 

Calum Bell                    Bucks Fire and Rescue Service

 

NHS Clinical Commissioning Group

 

Nicola Lester                         NHS Clinical Commissioning Group

 

Business and Learning Sector

 

Mark Sellis                            Amersham and Wycombe College

Warren Ralls                         Buckinghamshire Thames Valley LEP

Roger Martin                         Federation of Small Businesses

 

Officers

 

South Bucks and Chiltern District Council

 

Alan Goodrum          Chief Executive

Jim Burness                         Director of Resources

Bob Smith                             Director of Services

Rachel Prance                     Principal Officer for Policy, Performance & Communications

 

Chiltern District Council

 

Aisha Bi                                 Assistant Policy and Improvement Officer

Ben Coakley                  Principal Strategic Environment Officer

James Streeter              Programme Management Support Officer

Michael Veryard            Principal Housing Officer

 

Apologies for Absence:-

 

PC/TC :-   Michael Saxby, (Fulmer Parish Council); Maureen Seymour (Penn Parish Councils); Howard Trevette (Amersham Town Council) Hayden Selwyn-Jones (Burnham Parish Council); Ralph Bagge (Stoke Poges Parish Council); Chalfont St. Giles; Chalfont St. Peter; Chartridge;  Chenies; Chesham Bois; Cholesbury-cum-St. Leonards; Coleshill; Denham; Dorney; Farnham Royal; Great Missenden; Hedgerley; Iver; Latimer & Ley Hill; Little Missenden; Seer Green; Taplow; The Lee; Wexham.

 

BCC:-       Tim Butcher, Dev Dhillon, David Martin, Mark Shaw, David Schofield, and Ruth Vigor-Hedderly

 

BCC Officers:-                 Christine Gardiner; Gillian Hibberd

Voluntary/ Community Sector

Diane Rutter                         Community Impact Bucks

Vivien Salisbury    Action4Youth

Davida Allen                         Chiltern Revitalisation Groups

 

Faith Community

 

Rev Bill Jackson   Faith representative (St Peter’s Church, Burnham)  

Parvinder Matheru              Faith Representative

 

Thames Valley Police

 

Supt Steve Hockin        Thames Valley Police

 

Business and Learning Sector

 

Angus Blackwood  Arqiva

Alison Hadden                    Paradigm Housing

Alastair Pike                          Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce

Rodney Mallinson              Federation of Small Businesses

Rupert Waters                      Bucks Business First 

Alastair Pike                          Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce (South Bucks)

The minutes of the Chiltern and South Bucks Joint strategic Partnership meeting held on 25^th July 2013 were received, copies of which had been previously circulated.

RESOLVED that:-

 

The minutes were approved and accepted by Councillor N Rose, as a correct record.

 

The Partnership received a presentation from Nicola Lester, Development Director for NHS Chiltern Clinical Commissioning Group. The presentation explained what the NHS Clinical Commissioning Group does and the changes to the NHS which took place earlier this year.

 

In the discussion after the presentation the following points were noted:

·         The Chiltern and Aylesbury Vale Clinical Commissioning Groups have been working closely with the Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust since it had been put into special measures. They have been meeting on a monthly basis to discuss what the trust is doing and what actions need to be implemented.

·         Patients are able to choose where they can go for their care if private hospitals offer care at NHS tariffs.

·         Lack of public engagement is a hard thing to resolve. Different age groups tend to need different types of support for example young mothers with children tend to need instant support which CCCG try to offer by recently releasing a leaflet on how to manage the 5 most common childhood illnesses.

·         CCG will be starting a new campaign called Choose Well. The campaign aims to inform people of the alternative to A&E. This is to reduce the number of people who visit A&E because they can’t get an appointment time that suits them, or they find it easier than going to the GP.

·         Every locality in Bucks (Wycombe, Amersham & Chesham, Wooburn Green and Southern) commissioned its provider for 111 advise line not the CCG. The contract for 111 helpline and out of hour’s service and minor injury units are being re-tendered out together.

·         The CCG is not able to extend GP hours; this is something that would need to be done by NHS England.

 

The chairman thanked Nicola Lester for her very informative presentation. 

 

 

The Partnership welcomed Warren Ralls, Partnerships Manager at Bucks Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership. Warren gave a presentation explaining what the BTVLEP does, what links to the community they have and what they can do for our high streets.

 

In discussions after the meeting the following points were noted:

·         A lot of young people tend not to move back to Buckinghamshire after they have completed university because the house prices tend to be too high

·         Young people are struggling to find work after finishing university because the skillsets they have is not what employers in Bucks are after.

·         It was suggested going into secondary schools to inform young people of the job opportunities that are available locally so they know how to train for them.

·         Ruth Farwell, BTVLEP Board Director sits on the Skills Sub Group which is trying to help businesses create opportunities for young people.

·         There doesn’t seem to be the same level of advice available for start-up businesses like there use to be. BBF have a business advisor who helps small businesses and can provide advice on most aspects.  

·         BTVLEP are strongly against HS2 when the money could be used in other ways and be more productive. BTVLEP feel that the Buckinghamshire economy will not benefit from HS2.

·         BTVLEP support farming and rural areas like any other business and are currently trying to link in with environment action groups and partnerships so they can become more informed about the issue.

 

The Chairman thanked Warren Ralls for his informative presentation.

 

The Partnership received a report from Alan Goodrum, Chiltern and South Bucks District Council’s Chief Executive. Alan presented the Joint Sustainable Community Strategy which has been circulated to members prior to the meeting. Partner organisations had previously provided feedback which had been incorporated into the SCS. Mr Goodrum stated it was important that the Partnership took ownership of the SCS, treating it as a living document and that the action plan produced from it supports the implementation of the SCS. 

 

RESOLVED that:-

The Joint Sustainable Community Strategy was approved and accepted by the partnership.

 

The Partnership then took part in two exercises to help identify what is already taking place and what the priorities from within the joint SCS will be for the next 12 - 18 months. The first exercise was to map out what was already being done to help achieve the outcomes that have been identified in the joint SCS. The second exercise was to prioritise the outcomes for each theme. A summary of the exercises is included in appendix A. 

 

Next Steps:

 

The next steps are to collate all the information from the workshop and to circulate the notes to the partnership members. Once the information has been circulated we will be able to conduct exercise 3 which will be done virtually. Exercise 3 will ask members and/ or their organisations to make commitments to help deliver the priority areas that have been identified in exercise 2.

The reason we decided to do exercise 3 virtually is so it allows people to discuss the outcomes of exercise 1 and 2 within their organisations before making a commitment. The deadline for members to provide feedback is 30^th November 2013. Once we have received all the feedback from members we will be able to decide what actions the partnership should take whether this is setting up a working group for each theme or just to allocating a lead who can feedback to the wider partnership. 

 

The Chairman drew the meeting’s attention to the proposed forward plan, which was noted. Should any Partner wish to put forward items for the forward plan, please contact Aisha Bi (abi@chiltern.gov.uk) or Laura Campbell (Laura.Campbell@SouthBucks.gov.uk).Current items on the forward plan include:

 

24^th April 2014:

·         Public Health

·         Health and Wellbeing Board

·         Social Isolation

 

October 2014

·         Planning Development

 

Topics that still need to allocated to the forward plan:

·         Overview of the voluntary Sector

·         Welfare Reform

·         Coping with the Construction of HS2

 

Members noted that future meetings of the Chiltern and South Bucks Strategic Partnership would be held as follows, commencing at 6.00p.m., but may be subject to change: -

 

·         24^th April 2014, South Bucks District Council Chamber

 

Thursday, 24 April 2014, 6.00pm (SBDC)

 

The meeting, having commenced at 6.10pm, ended at 8pm.