Health and Wellbeing Strategic Co-Ordinating Group

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Healthy and Active Strategic Co-ordinating Group (SCoG)

Terms of Reference: Children with Complex Health Care Needs and Disabilities Task-and-Finish Group

Purpose/Specific Task to be carried out and Finished . To highlight and address the needs of children with complex health care needs and disabilities who live within Wrexham County Borough. . To work in a multi agency way to influence and inform changes to service provision to improve the outcomes and life chances of this client group.

How we will achieve this: . Map existing health & social care services to children with disabilities and complex health care needs. . Identify and examine areas of unmet need in children’s and young people’s services. . Through the SCoG, to advise the CYP Framework Partnership in respect of service improvements, shortfalls and actions to address these issues. . Ensure that findings are reported to the Children and Young People’s Framework Partnership and are articulated as plans in the Health and Well Being Strategy. . Produce action plans which reflect local need but which also adhere to the requirements of the NSF for Children and Young People, and other relevant national drivers. . Prepare such reports as required by the Framework.

Reporting Arrangements This Task-and-Finish Group will be accountable to the Children and Young People’s Framework Partnership. It will report via meetings of the Healthy and Active Strategic Co-ordinating Group (SCoG) and will, when requested, provide reports to: . the Healthy and Active SCoG; . the Children and Young People’s Framework Partnership Board; . the Children’s Partnership; . the YP Partnership; . others as identified by the Chair of the SCoG.

Frequency of meetings: . As required, but at least quarterly, to enable the group to report to the SCoG and for the SCoG to feed progress etc. into the CYP Framework Partnership Board.

Other information: . Members will be expected to attend meetings regularly, sending an appropriately briefed deputy only when absolutely necessary. . Members will reflect upon their position in the group, ensuring that they are able to ensure a child-focused and representative view.

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. Co-opted members may be drawn from expert or representative reference groups in order to fully-brief membership and inform action plans by reporting to the group. . Chair and Vice Chair to be elected by the group. . Chair and Vice Chair to originate from different partner organisations.

Membership Members will be drawn from the following: . NHS Trust . Local Authority Children and Young People Service . Local Health Board . Voluntary Agencies . NPHS . Service users . Such significant others as deemed appropriate by the Chair of the SCoG.

Membership of Children with Complex Healthcare Needs Task & Finish Group Organisation Name Area of Work eMail and Phone Patrick Howells (Chair) NEW Trust NEW Trust Karen Allen SALT Sara Jones Learning Disability Joan Prescott Child Health Centre Angela Roberts Children’s Health LHB Services Margaret Southall Family Support Ann Pumford/Ann Neal SEN WCBC CYP Jo Hesketh Project Manager CIDS Isobel Neudorfer Performance Dev’t Officer Maxine Grant St. Christopher’s Wendy Jones Ysgol Heulfan Kevin Fryer CH&DT Nikki Hudson Tapley Avenue Third Sector Sally Rees CCN UK MarieGibson (tbc) AVOW Carol Gardner Dynamic Kate Wyke Parent Partnership Membership List – For Minutes Distribution, will only be requested to attend as required. Allen, Karen NEW Trust Knight, Paula NEW Trust John Roberts Head of Service Yvonne Harding NEW Trust (Corporate Parenting) Rhian Timms LAC Team (Education) Judith Moore LAC Team (Health) Grant, Maxine St Christopher’s School Mitra, Madhabi Child Health Centre Johnston, Kate Performance, C&YP

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Terms of Reference for Task-and-Finish group Development of Model for Integrated Children’s Disability Service

Stage 1 of Development

. Reports to Healthy and Active Strategic Co-ordinating Group (SCoG) . Examines models and structures available - Completed  . Ensures links to NSF’s and NICE guidelines - ongoing . Makes proposals to the Healthy and Active SCoG in form of costed option papers - ongoing

Stage 2 of Development . Map and describe existing services – to be included in Action Plan

. Develop project plan for integrated service including time frames -Completed 

Stage 3 of Development

. Inform and engage all staff and practitioners - Completed  . Describe need for move to integrated service and ensure project plan thoroughly understood by management and staff – Completed  . Develop Performance Management Framework - Ongoing