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CHD.5 Blaenau Gwent as host of the South East Wales Adoption Service will ensure compliance with the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (Joint Adoption Arrangements) (Wales) Directions 2015. Service area reviews have been undertaken which have led to a change in structure within SEWAS. The 1st Annual report form NAS has been published outlining key messages and performance of each of the regions. SEWAS are well placed to make improvements required in certain aspects of service delivery Green T. Evans CHD.6 Ensure the workforce is prepared to implement the Social Services and Well (Wales) Act 2014. A training Calendar has been developed by the workforce development team to provide training on the 4 modules developed by the care council for Wales on the SS&WB Act. This will be rolled about to senior managers initially as the full workforce will not be able to receive the training prior to April 2016 Amber T. Evans ADU.5 Respond to the proposals for Improvement from CSSIW Blaenau Gwent has recently been awarded the ‘working towards a dementia friendly community 2015/16’ by the Alzheimer’s Society with Tredegar town the identified pilot site. A focus of DFC development is a wider understanding of dementia and the delivery of a brief Dementia Friends awareness sessions. In the first 3 months of Blaenau Gwent receiving the accreditation, 30 sessions have been delivered and 314 dementia friends have been trained with 6 Dementia Champions trained to deliver the sessions. Green D. McCann ADU.6 Outcome Agreement: Increased Support for We have been over the last quarter trying to implement the 'demonstrator project', although we are frustrated with the referrals we are going to have to work on promoting the service. We continue to work with Carers and continue to embed into day to day practice. Welsh Government have announced that we will no longer need to continue providing evidence and they will not be monitoring Outcome Agreements moving forward. Blue D. McCann 4.8 WAO Proposals for Improvement The Social Services Directorate have 1 WAO proposal for improvement and recommendation for 2015/16 which has now been completed in full. Commentary: The pie chart above shows the current status of the Social Services Directorate proposal for improvement from the WAO, this proposal has a Blue status and has been completed. Monitoring Blue Green Amber Red Proposals