<p> Voluntary and Community Sector Joint Representation Feedback Form (please photocopy)</p><p>Name. Alison Hender.……… Group//Meeting…South 3 Executive……. Date of meeting 21st October 09 …………………</p><p>Overall view of meeting and general comments</p><p>Good representation from many agencies. Good debate at times. Some resistance to working together evident at meeting. Extended schools manager held it together by preparing reports, doing the actions between meetings, Many other partners don’t have the capacity to take on additional actions between meetings.</p><p>Key issues/main points of interest for the voluntary & community sectors</p><p>The purpose of the meeting is to deliver the locality plan – this is a public document and available to all. There are 5 main priorities with small subcommittees who progress that priority. It is also to deliver and join up regarding Children’s Trust and CYP priorities. Where possible this is done by using existing resources and funding but there is a budget available within the executive.</p><p>Interesting points for vol sector:  Identified gap around counselling for adults  Training available for agencies in understanding CAHMS  Gap around supporting identified people to access and attend CAF panels and parenting courses etc  Some group members identified the Polish as the growing minority group.  Community Space Development at St Annes park Comments and concerns raised by voluntary and community sector representatives</p><p>Some key people who have experience of working multi-agency will be good to work with and share ideas with. </p><p>Low capacity amongst the group to take on extra work will make the group ineffective if we do not have ring-fenced time from someone like the Extended schools manager. </p><p>Limited communication between Youth and Schools or between schools was evident at the meeting. I raised the issue of the primary review of St Annes Park restarting and impacting on plans for Wicklea. No one raised how this might impact on youth services if the only Youth centre was removed and built on by schools! </p><p>Group members expressed their need for baseline information on the area.</p><p>Some group members expressed need for information on how other areas reduce racism - in response to St Annes being mentioned in the Panaroma programme on racism.</p><p>Grants pot has no guidelines or organisation, such as submission dates. There is a large amount of overlap between this and the grants pot which is well run by the Community partnership in Brislington. Key decision/s made</p><p>Budget decisions made at the request of extended schools manager. Grant awarding needs to be formalised and completed forms must be submitted before the meeting not ideas presented to the meeting. Criteria and guidelines are necessary to be developed. </p><p>Please return a copy of this form to The Care Forum, The Black Development Agency and Voscur within five working days following the meeting. Thank you.</p>