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Welcome and Apologies Minutes:
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Minutes: The minutes were approved subject to an amendment on the update from the Ministry of Defence. |
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Management Committee Update Minutes: Samantha Somers updated the Area Community Planning Group on the meeting of the CPP Management Committee held in June 2018. |
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Area Community Planning Action Plan Verbal update from Community Planning Officer Minutes: Samantha Somers gave a verbal update on progress of the plan and explained the reasons for no individual items being presented at this meeting. |
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Community Focus |
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Presentation from Welcome In Minutes: Margaret Mitchell, Fiona Lockhart and Yvonne McLeod from
Addaction and Welcome In spoke to the Area Community Planning Group on the
activities of the peer-led recovery café, Welcome In. The success of the group
was noted with all but two of the original members have now progressed onto
full-time education or employment and they are now actively recruiting
volunteers. It was noted that the Welcome In café is an add-on to formal
treatment and partners were requested to support, promote and raise awareness
of the service to any relevant service users they work with, with many partners
around the table agreeing to do so. Councillor Douglas offered to send details of a funding
alert to the group. Jim Littlejohn invited the Welcome In to attend the Health
and Social Care Partnership Locality Planning Group in September. Laura Cameron
advised there was potential for the Station Trust in Garelochhead
to link up with the Welcome In too. |
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Any other updates from community groups within the Helensburgh and Lomond area Minutes: Laura Cameron updated the group on the plans for Garelochhead train station which intends to provide
services for veterans by veterans. The process for becoming a Scottish
Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) is underway. Duncan MacLachlan from Arrochar
Community Trust gave an update on the projects that the Trust were developing
including the Community Hydro scheme and managing the Community Hall, Café and
Post Office. He advised they were looking to boost their complement of
Directors and were keen to ensure a broad representation of demographics. He gave his view on the recently announced increase in
parking charges in Arrochar and advised that the main
concerns of the community were inappropriate parking within Succoth. He spoke
of potential long-term aspirations by the Trust and community to improve the
facility e.g. toilets. It was agreed that this be raised to the Management
Committee. |
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Argyll and Bute Outcome Improvement Plan 2013-2023 The focus of this meeting is on Outcome 5: People live active, healthier and independent lives and Outcome 6: People live in safer and stronger communities Minutes: Rural Watch David Armstrong gave a presentation on Rural Watch and
advised there were 635 members in Argyll and Bute with 268 of these based in
the Helensburgh and Lomond area. Individuals can sign up to receive alerts at
http://www.ruralwatchscotland.co.uk/ and can choose the types of alerts they
receive from trusted sources. It was agreed to raise awareness of this to the CPP
Management Committee. Councillor Douglas requested that this also go to the
Area Committee to raise further awareness and should go into the CPP bulletin. |
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Update from Ministry of Defence on the Maritime Change Programme Minutes: This item was not discussed |
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Health and Social Care Partnership - Strategic Plan Consultation Additional documents:
Minutes: Sandra Cairney gave a presentation
as the Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) is seeking feedback from
service user and carer representatives, partners and staff on the development
of the 2nd Strategic Plan (April 2019- March 2022), specifically on eight
strategic areas of service change required to deliver the ambitions of the HSCP
over the life of the Plan. This will take place during summer and early autumn
2018. Further information on the consultation including how to
submit your views can be found here and the presentation given to Area
Community Planning Groups can be found here. The consultation will be open
until the Autumn of 2018 and everyone is encouraged to submit their views. |
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Health and Wellbeing Annual Report Additional documents: Minutes: Laura Stephenson spoke to the report and provided information on local initiatives and membership of the Helensburgh and Lomond Health and Wellbeing network. The report was noted by the group |
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Partner Updates Minutes: Jim Littlejohn, HSCP, thanked everyone for their responses
to the development of Jean’s Bothy. A representative from Jean’s Bothy will be
invited along to a future meeting of the ACPG. Allan Kirk, Police Scotland, advised that they had 5 adult
volunteers for the Police Scotland Youth Volunteer programme and had identified
20 children to take part. Proactive patrolling has been taking place in Arrochar and Luss over the summer period and discussion took place on the congestion
caused by HGV’s using the A814 when the A82 had been closed recently. It was
noted that signage did advise the road was unsuitable for HGV’s but it is not
illegal for them to drive on it, therefore cannot be prevented from doing so.
Allan agreed to speak to the Multi Agency Road Safety Group on the potential of
resources for manning stop-points. Neil Sturrock, SPT, advised that a report on sustainable
transport on the A814 corridor had been commissioned to establish issues and
opportunities. It was agreed to invite Colin Young to a future meeting on this.
Neil advised that he was retiring and this would be his last meeting. Morevain
thanked Neil for his attendance over the years and his input into local
community planning. Bobby Tourish, Scottish Fire and Rescue, gave an update on
incidents within the Helensburgh and Lomond area and encouraged all partners to
refer service users for Home Fire Safety Visits as appropriate. Bobby also gave
an update on recent CPR events, Fire Reach programmes and the Cut It Out event. Kirsty Moyes, Argyll and Bute Council, advised that an
external evaluation of the Participatory Budgeting approach to the council’s
Supporting Communities Fund was underway and that an update would be brought to
the next meeting. Samantha Somers advised that the Helensburgh and Lomond Area Community Planning Group would soon be required to appoint a new Vice-Chair and requested all present to consider taking this on. If anyone would like further information on this, please feel free to have an informal conversation with Morevain, Stuart or Samantha. |
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Date of next meeting Thursday 1st November, location to be confirmed but possibly Cove Minutes: As the Chair is unable to attend the next scheduled meeting of the group, the group collectively decided to change the meeting date to the 1st November. It was intimated that Cove Burgh Hall would be the likely venue but this would be confirmed within the calendar invitation. |