Agenda and minutes

Scrutiny Inquiry Panel - Dementia Friendly Southampton - Tuesday, 26th April, 2016 5.30 pm

Venue: Committee Rooms 1 and 2 - Civic Centre. View directions

Contact: Judy Cordell, Senior Democratic Support Officer, Tel:- 023 8083 2766 

Items
No. Item

21.

Apologies and Changes in Panel Membership (if any)

To note any changes in membership of the Panel made in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 4.3.

Minutes:

The Panel noted the apologies of Councillor Lewzey. 

22.

Minutes of the Previous Meeting (including matters arising) pdf icon PDF 54 KB

To approve and sign as a correct record the Minutes of the meetings held on 25th February, 2016 and to deal with any matters arising, attached.

Minutes:

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting held on 25th February 2016 be approved and signed as a correct record. 

23.

Making Southampton Dementia Friendly - Draft Final Report pdf icon PDF 71 KB

Report of the Service Director, Legal and Governance recommending that the Panel discuss, amend and agree a final version of the Making Southampton Dementia Friendly Inquiry report, attached.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Panel considered the report of the Service Director, Legal and Governance seeking agreement for a final version of Making Southampton Dementia Friendly Inquiry report.

 

RESOLVED that the report be agreed, subject to the following amendments:

 

Recommendation 4 -That the Council use strategic drivers such as the community safety plan, health and wellbeing strategy, local transport plan, planning function as well as strategies for older people and people with dementia as levers to reinforce the needs of people living with dementia.

 

Recommendation 6 - That Dementia Friends sessions are made compulsory for all customer facing Council employees, including elected members, and that it is included in Council and relevant Capita inductions.

 

Recommendation 10 - Explore the opportunity to create a dementia roadmap for Southampton that provides high quality information about the dementia journey alongside local information about services, support groups and care pathways to assist primary care to support people with dementia, their families and carers.

 

Recommendation 12 - Through the Health and Wellbeing Board and NHS Southampton Clinical Commissioning Group General Assembly Southampton GP Practices are actively encouraged to sign up to the ISPACE initiative.

 

Recommendation 18 - That the City Council explores opportunities to develop a Community Toilet Scheme in Southampton.