The meeting happened on Tuesday 24 August 2021 from 11am to 1pm.
The meeting happened on Zoom.
David McDonald
Kieran McCarthy
Collette Jones
Niqi Rainey
Amanda Paul
Bryan Myles
Harvey Tilley
Linda Scott
Lee House
Frances McHugh
Liam Hargan
Liz McGarrity
David welcomed everyone. He asked if everyone was okay with the meeting being recorded. Everyone agreed.
Everyone agreed the Minutes were fine. Alannah will put them on the website.
Action 1. Lee will add the Charter for Involvement to the next meeting’s agenda. This has been done.
Action 2. Lee will send Easy Read draft documents to the Group by email.
This still needs to be done.
Action 3. Lee will email the Group to see who is happy for their email address to show in group emails. He will also ask to see if they want to carry on being part of the Group.
This has been done.
Action 4. Lee will send out a Doodle Poll to choose a meeting date for the Group to look at the Your Responsibilities guide.
This has been done.
David and Linda talked about how long to keep video recordings of the meetings.
The Group agreed that the recordings should be kept until the Minutes are agreed at the next meeting. Linda will check about data protection.
David said that he is part of the Advanced Care Planning Group. He has asked if another member will come to these meetings to tell the Group about their work.
David asked everyone to decide if they were happy for their email address and phone number to be shared by:
David said that these people have left the Stakeholder group:
David will write and thank them.
The Group talked about getting in touch with Stakeholders who have not been to meetings for a while.
Lee will try and find their contact details and send them a letter asking if they still want to be part of the Group.
Linda told the Group:
The Group talked about meeting in person next time.
Lee and Linda will look into this before the meeting in November 2021.
fund again in Northern Ireland
Harvey said:
David said this session is happening on 26 August 2021 and that Members are welcome to come.
Linda said:
Linda said there are differences between Scotland and Northern Ireland for this policy.
She said that the Northern Ireland Sponsor Team would like the changes to happen at the same time as the Fund opens again. Linda said that updating this policy would be helpful because there will be fewer other policies needed.
The Department of Health in Northern Ireland said that Trusts can keep making COVID-19 sustainability payments until the end of March 2022. This means that Independent Living Fund Scotland can keep making flexible policy changes until the end of March 2022.
Harvey talked about the progress of the 5 hundred pound Thank You payments.
These are for Personal Assistants in Scotland.
The information has been shared with the Northern Ireland Department of Health.
We don’t know yet if payments are going to be made in Northern Ireland.
Niqi said that there is a problem with some insurance for Personal Assistants. Some of the terms and conditions by Fish Insurance have changed and it could be a problem.
Bryan said that there is a list of other insurers on CILNI’s website.
Linda said that Independent Living Fund Scotland could publish a list of choices on our website and tell staff about this issue.
Linda said that Independent Living Fund Scotland have sent a letter to all recipients.
In this document ‘recipient’ means someone who is given money by the Independent Living Fund Scotland.
The letter tells them that there are local lateral flow tests ready for Personal Assistants.
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All the meetings will be from 11am to 3pm.
This is the end of the Minutes.