Voluntary Sector Representative, Bradford District Assembly. Head of Commissioning (Women and Children, Bradford & Airedale CCGs

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1 Better Start Bradford Partnership Board Minutes Thursday 14 September 2017 Mayfield Centre Meeting Started: Meeting Ended: Present: Vipin Joshi Rosie McEachan Peter Horner Sarah Hinton Michaela Howell Julia Elliot Ruth Hayward Kev Taylor Christy Bischoff Gwen Balson Nasreen Khan Nisrein Shabsogh Rashida Latif Shaheen Khan Shaza Omer Mark Anslow Sarah Muckle (Chair) Programme Director, Born in Bradford Voluntary Sector Representative, Bradford District Assembly Board Member, Bradford Trident Programme Director, Better Start Bradford Interim Head of Children s Services, BDCFT Head of Commissioning (Women and Children, Bradford & Airedale CCGs Inspector, West Yorkshire Police Programme Director, Early Help, CBMDC (in place of Michael Jameson) Deputy Director, Public Health (in place of Shirley Brierley) In Attendance Gill Thornton Josie Dickerson Jill Duffy Guy Dove Programme Manager, Better Start Bradford (items 1 to 8 only) Programme Manager, Born in Bradford (items 1 to 8 only) Implementation Manager, Better Start Bradford (items 1 to 8 only) Programme Administrator, Better Start Bradford (items 1 to 8 only) Apologies for Absence: Michael Jameson Sara Keogh Talat Sajawal Shirley Brierley Mumtaz Elahi Gill Hart Nasim Qureshi 1

2 1. Welcome, Introductions and Apologies Vipin welcomed everyone to the meeting and noted the apologies. The attendees were asked to introduce themselves. The Board welcomed three new community board members Nisrein Shabsogh, Shaheen Khan and Shaza Omer. Vipin reported that Mel Astin has resigned from the Partnership Board as she wishes to become a health visitor which will involve a lot of studying and time commitment. She will still support us and be involved via BD4 Family. The Partnership Board wished to record their appreciation for Mel s contribution. Mel has been involved from a very early stage including the bid and had hosted a site visit from senior representatives of the Big Lottery Fund at BD4 Family. 2. Minutes of the Previous Meeting 20 July 2017 The minutes were accepted as a true and accurate record. 3. Matters Arising actions table Michaela confirmed that Jill is finalising the job description for the systems administrator/data inputter. Sheila Brett has circulated the relevant part of the July minutes to the Parents in the Lead panel members. We will be interviewing to recruit a community engagement specialist on 20 September and Michaela asked any community board members who are interested in taking part to contact her. 4. Declarations of Interest Rosie said she is co-director of the Innovation Hub. It was agreed that Rashida would not be present for item Getting to know you session Rosie McEachan Rosie agreed to be recorded for this section. Rosie views herself as a proud Scottish-Bradfordian having lived in Yorkshire since 2003 and in Bradford since Rosie said she has a pretty unique role and the best job in the world. She is the youngest of seven children who now live all over the world and have very different careers (such as an artist, a singer, a radio DJ) but they have a strong work ethic in common. Her father was a careers adviser at Edinburgh University and Rosie lied about her age to get her first job at an Edinburgh greengrocers and had had a wide variety of jobs since then. Aged 17, Rosie went to read business at Strathclyde University then discovered she was also interested in psychology. Rosie did a degree in marketing and psychology which is a good mix for understanding behaviours and how to change them. 2

3 Rosie wanted a job giving some benefit to society and got a graduate job working in Public Health which involved working on changing behaviours for things like smoking and drinking. Rosie spotted there was a gap in that there was very little guidance and research about changing behaviours and wanted to do something useful for practitioners. Rosie won a scholarship to do a Masters at Imperial College London where she was taught by some of the top academics in the field and found it very inspiring. Rosie then started a PhD at Leeds University in Her first research project was an intervention to try to increase the physical activity of Leeds bus drivers. She moved to work at Bradford Institute of Health Research in 2009 doing various projects including patient safety. Rosie has been running Born in Bradford since She was doubtful about taking the leadership role at first but finds it very rewarding, having recruited 12,500 families. Now she tries to integrate Born in Bradford with what else is going on in the city which is more likely to have research make a difference. Better Start Bradford is one of their flagship projects. Rosie described herself as a single mum (with two boys aged 9 and 6½) with a really busy job. She loves running and the countryside. The Partnership Board thanked Rosie for her presentation. 6. BSB Innovation Hub: An overview of our service design, implementation and evaluation toolkits Josie presented an update on the work supporting service design and implementing and evaluating BSB projects. Service design involves the community, other partners, the Innovation Hub and delivery partners. It is good to get everyone s involvement but it is also challenging as people have different priorities. There has also been lots of service design at once with projects all at different stages and having different evidence levels and there have been other challenges like setting and meeting expectations. The solution to this is to develop a toolkit and other people like the BLF are interested in this. The toolkit s components are the service design manual and operational guide and includes the need to consider monitoring right at the start, having a good questionnaire for data collection, a logic model, an implementation plan, risk log and reviews and reports. The final component is the monitoring and evaluation framework. All BSB projects get performance monitoring (covering data quality, recruitment, reach and fidelity). The next level is an implementation evaluation (including satisfaction questionnaire), then a Before and After Study and beyond this is an effectiveness evaluation. For the BSB projects coming to an end, only an implementation evaluation will be done and perhaps a Before and After Study but the Innovation Hub will be able to say how confident they are of being able to do an effectiveness implementation and how long would be needed to do it. Josie said the Partnership Board will be making decisions about projects and she will be asking for contributions to evaluations from partners, projects and Board members over the coming months as they will not just be relying on the implementation evaluation. Finally, Josie mentioned the toolkit workshop on the afternoon on 21 September at Kala Sangam. 62 people have already registered for this but more attendees from the Partnership 3

4 Board will be welcome. After the workshop, the toolkit will go on Born in Bradford s website and Josie would like feedback on it at this point. Michaela wished to reiterate the importance of the toolkit as the Partnership Board will be making some really important decisions concerning the future of projects. They need to understand the toolkit and if they cannot attend on 21 September Josie can do a separate session. 7. Early Help - update Michaela introduced Mark as the Programme Manager for the review of Children s Services (Early Help) which Michael has mentioned at the Board. Mark said the initial engagement process has just been closed and his team have looked at the findings which will go into the final report to the Council Executive, and then the final consultation must involve the whole of Bradford district. Early Help has a multi-agency programme board, including Michaela. He remarked that there is a very challenging financial situation with a requirement for Council to balance their budget by A proposal for a new delivery model of services for children will go to the council s Executive on 10 October. Mark cannot go into much detail before then but it will be followed by a full public consultation and the proposal shall be released on the council s website. Mark said the proposal is for 0-19s and will involve a one plan, one family, one worker approach and recognises that they must get Early Years right because of its impact on later life. The proposal cuts out multiple services and multiple interventions and aligns services. The ethos of the proposal has elements of BSB and Born in Bradford in it. The local authority will not ask people to stop things without an evidence base. There will be more of a Can Do approach involving Signs of Safety which is now adopted across the district. Mark said he and his team hope to work closely with other agencies including BSB and set up a joint delivery group. There will be some sessions on evidence-bases in consultation with practitioners and families. The consultation will last three months. 8. Award of contracts for Breastfeeding Support, Baby Steps and HAPPY Decision: That the Baby Steps contract is awarded to Action for Children. Decision: That Breastfeeding Support is re-tendered. Gill said that we are looking again at the service design and specification for Breastfeeding Support and we have received feedback from all organisations who submitted an initial Expression of Interest but then decided not to bid. We will also be doing a market engagement event and will be consulting about the model and its deliverability before going out to tender again in early January. Decision: That the HAPPY contract is awarded to Barnardo s. 4

5 9. Confidential item: Board member discussion (confidential item) 10. Items for Information Programme Status report: Christy pointed out that the Parents in the Lead activities are for engaging new parents into the programme and questioned whether the fact that activities might not be recruiting to their projected numbers was a risk, as long as engagement was happening. Michaela also informed the Board that Riffat Nasser has had a baby girl and the Board passed on their congratulations. Strategic update Peter asked for further clarity regarding the proposal for the executive group to become part of the Children s Transformation and Integration Group. Michaela replied that the executive group is yet to discuss the proposal themselves so more clarity will be generated then. Proposed meeting dates for next year were agreed. 11. Any other business Nasreen asked if we could use mosques such as Madni Centre for Board meetings on occasion. Vipin asked Board members if they had all felt that they had opportunity to contribute to the meeting and members agreed that they had. 12. Date of next meeting The next meeting is 19 th October, am at The Barn, 16 Teasdale St, BD4 7QJ. The meeting closed at 7.45pm. 5