Working in partnership to prevent, and support recovery from the harmful use of alcohol and drugs.

ARGYLL AND BUTE ALCOHOL AND DRUGS PARTNERSHIP DELIVERY GROUP Tuesday 7 th July Lorn Room 2, and Bute , 10.30 -1.00pm

PRESENT: Craig McNally Senior Health Improvement Specialist (Drugs & Alcohol) Carol Muir ADP Coordinator, ADP Cath Cakebread ABAT Manager Isobel Strong Chair of BADF Nona Ruesgen Co Chair KSMG Steve Hunter Chair of MASMG Lesley MacKay Co Chair KSMG Wendy Brownlee Education (VC) John Project Director (Mental Health Modernisation) Derek Carr Financial Services Manager, Argyll and Bute CHP Mike Tweddle Co Chair HLSMG Bev Ison Co Chair OLISMG Rebecca Barr Lead Officer, Adult Protection, Argyll and Bute Council Iain Angus MacDonald Interim Third Sector Chair Lana Stewart Local Authority Liaison officer Scottish Police

Apologies: Lloyd Wells Co Chair IJSMG Jim Paterson Employability Agnes Harvey Chair of CADF John Belton Service manager, Criminal Justice Les Ballam Co Chair HLSMG Liz Strang Lead Officer, Child Protection, Argyll and Bute Council David McCaughey Fire and Rescue Service Elaine Robertson Co Chair of OLISMG

IN ATTENDANCE: Sarah Marquis Admin to ADP

Item Subject Action 1. Welcome/Present Craig McNally (CMN) began by way of introductions and welcomed the group to the meeting.

2. Apologies As above

IAM entered the meeting at 10.40, he is acting as the Interim Third Sector Chair. IAM is currently on the board of OASIS and was nominated by the Third Sector to take on the role following the resignation of Jennifer Goff. CMN proceeded to read out the resignation letter from Jeniffer Goff outlining the reasons she felt the need to resign. This does not reflect on the ADP but the need for better partnership working. She was a valued member of the ADP and the Delivery Group would like to thank her for all her work.

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3. Minutes of Previous Meeting IS felt that page two point five, second paragraph, did not fully reflect the discussion. After a lengthy discussion it was agreed to re word this section of the minutes to better reflect the discussion at the previous meeting. NR would like the amendments highlighted in the minutes however this request was rejected as the minutes were presented in draft form and changes were being made in order to accept them as accurate.

4. Matters Arising Employability – CMN has requested that, if the summary reaches stage two, could Jim Paterson provide an update to the ADP. CM will follow up. CM

Audit – NR would like clarification on the Audit Scotland feedback sent to the

Executive Group for discussion, CMN was not at the Executive Group meeting due to annual

leave so is unable to comment. CM who attended the meeting said as the comments were

only received the night before the Executive Group and not seven days prior to the meeting and therefore the comments were not discussed.

NPS Report – CC apologises for the delay in the report and it has now been sent to the ADP support team for circulation. SM

Audit Committee – NR stated that Christina West, Chair of the ADP was unable to attend the Audit Committee meeting in June so Cleland Sneddon, Morag Brown and Anne McColl Smith attend in her place. IAM added that a conclusion has not yet been drawn to the Audit Scotland report as there are still some questions to be answered. CM pointed out that she has not had sight of questions. IAM was unable to remember the detail of the questions.

5. Delivery Plan CM talked to the group regarding the Delivery Plan. The deadline was the 15 th of June, CM contacted the Scottish Government and as the ADP is going through significant change a one year interim plan was accepted by the Scottish Government. The Scottish Government have tasked all ADP’s to update there needs analysis to help inform their next Delivery Plan in

2016. it has been suggested, as we are not sure what our indicators will be, to remove this

information from the improvement plan and include accurate indicators next year, this would

make it more achievable. It will all be reported on as normal. ROSC will help inform us along with the need analysis. IAM asked if the information would offer a good snap shot to compare in a couple of months and review the progress being made? CM stated that the outcomes and the reports will change, the CPP and others are also looking to update their outcomes, and part of the coordinators role is to work with all agencies on this. The Delivery Group endorsed the removal of the indicators from the improvement plan. BI asked if it CM would be possible to get the Improvement plan once complete to send to the members? CM will send this out. 6. Financial Update DC presented the financial report two months in to the financial year, not much to report at the moment, budget spends will need to be agreed against these as we do not want to find ourselves in the same position as last year with an under spend.

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7. ADP Structures At the last Delivery group meeting six options were given for the new structure for the ADP. The group decided they needed more information and tasked CM to look at these options and populate these with more information. After looking at the options CM proposed a small working group be set up to look at these options and present the final one to the other

groups. NR felt it is not the structure that is currently the issue and again we are avoiding the

problem between the partners. CMN added at the Development day a structure change was

proposed and there was no mention of any problems. CMN asked NR for her thoughts on how we proceed with this. NR would like someone to do what Jeremy Scuse initially came in to do (look at relationship issues within the ADP). IAM added that the ADP should be looking at the issues present and so avoiding the issue the information is not getting down to service user level. CMN as the chair of the Delivery Group acknowledges there are some problems but there has not been a consensus as to what they are. CC would like to reassure the group that services are being delivered, ABAT has undergone an independent service review and the results came back at a high level. CC asks NR is she feels these problems are from a personal view or a forum view? NR states this is a forum view, LM added that the forum do feel there are problems around the structure of the ADP. IAM commented that he sees where CC is coming from but when he was on the board of ACHA the performance reports were always high but the clients were not happy and it should be about the bottom end of the line. CM added that she had sent out the structure for ideas and got no response, also sent out

the vision statement and got one response on Monday. Part of the coordinators role is to

create proposals for consideration at the groups.

The group decided that it would be beneficial to have an ADP workshop day to look at the CM Vision/Mission statement, ADP structure and the Charter. The aim of this day is to conclude all three pieces of work. This would involve all ADP partners and promote partnership working. This was agreed by all members around the table. NR raised a concern as to who would facilitate this and requested the ADP seek external facilitators to make the process comfortable for all partners to have their opinions. The group agreed to this.

8. Executive Group Update CM attended the Executive Group on Thursday 2 nd of July. The Delivery Plan, ROSC, and training programme were all discussed and agreed. Also the Independent Chair was discussed and a contract will be put together and put out to advert. The Delivery Group requested for the Independent chair information to be circulated again. SM

9. ABI’s CMN presented an ABI report for 2014/15, this years quarter has just finished and will be presented at the next meeting. NR asked if the ABI’s could ever be funded through the Third Sector? CMN added that Third Sector doesn’t meet the criteria but will check. CMN

10. AOCB None

11. Date of next meeting Tuesday 15 th of September 2015, at 10:30am, Boardroom, Aros.

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