Health and Social Care Alliance accepted invitation to join the Sara – Redmond is in attendance. The matrix of Sector/SG priorities has been drawn up based on the exercise at the last meeting and circulated o the Forum for comment. A working group was set up to take forward work with the Evidence Framework. In relation to the first action, Sandy said that contacting specialists to arrange participation/presentation with the forum is not appropriate at this time. We will come back to this in the future. Matters arising were dealt with over the course of the meeting. Update on the Evidence Framework Patty updated the Forum on the development of the Evidence Framework since the last meeting took place. This included finalising the matrix of policy priorities and setting up a working group to discuss and put together an options paper for the work that the Forum could take forward in 2013-14. The resulting paper was tabled at the meeting and discussed. Patty highlighted that the options focus on specific topics but proposed that the Forum would look at them in terms of the wider impact they had on the third sector. She also noted that some of the options were time sensitive as linked to specific pieces of work such as strategies that were being developed. Ilse and Louise raised the concern that some of the options for future work are very specific and some organisations with a more general remit might find it hard to identify with them and sign up to specific tasks. Steven suggested that an objective for today’s discussion should be for the Forum to get to a place where everyone feels they can contribute to the pieces of work being taken forward. The Forum also thought it was important to consider the role of academics, making sure everyone can contribute, linking the work to broad issues about the sector to inform the work we do, and producing outputs like the Health and Social Care paper and the Reducing Re-offending paper (i.e. produce a series of TSRF papers). Setting the Forum’s Workplan for 2013/14 The Forum divided in two groups to discuss the options and provided feedback on the discussions afterwards. The Forum agreed to take the following pieces of work forward: Public Service Reform: How sector engages in planning structures How communities engage What works/barriers/enablers
Health and Social Care Alliance accepted invitation to join the – Sara Redmond is in attendance. The matrix of Sector/SG priorities has been drawn up based on the exercise at the last meeting and circulated o the Forum for comment. A working group was set up to take forward work with the Evidence Framework. In relation to the first action, Sandy said that contacting specialists to arrange participation/presentation with the forum is not appropriate at this time. We will come back to this in the future. Matters arising were dealt with over the course of the meeting. Update on the Evidence Framework Patty updated the Forum on the development of the Evidence Framework since the last meeting took place. This included finalising the matrix of policy priorities and setting up a working group to discuss and put together an options paper for the work that the Forum could take forward in 2013-14. The resulting paper was tabled at the meeting and discussed. Patty highlighted that the options focus on specific topics but proposed that the Forum would look at them in terms of the wider impact they had on the third sector. She also noted that some of the options were time sensitive as linked to specific pieces of work such as strategies that were being developed. Ilse and Louise raised the concern that some of the options for future work are very specific and some organisations with a more general remit might find it hard to identify with them and sign up to specific tasks. Steven suggested that an objective for today’s discussion should be for the Forum to get to a place where everyone feels they can contribute to the pieces of work being taken forward. The Forum also thought it was important to consider the role of academics, making sure everyone can contribute, linking the work to broad issues about the sector to inform the work we do, and producing outputs like the Health and Social Care paper and the Reducing Re-offending paper (i.e. produce a series of TSRF papers). Setting the Forum’s Workplan for 2013/14 The Forum divided in two groups to discuss the options and provided feedback on the discussions afterwards. The Forum agreed to take the following pieces of work forward: Public Service Reform: How sector engages in planning structures How communities engage What works/barriers/enablers
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