The meeting happened on Monday 24 May 2021 from 1.30pm to 3pm.
The meeting happened on Zoom.
Jim Elder-Woodward
Andy Higgins
Joan Turner
Kate Walsh
Christine Mercer
Jacqueline Walsh
Hugh John Glancy
Lee House (ILF Scotland)
Linda Scott (ILF Scotland)
Chloe McKee
Nic Reid
Peter Scott (ILF Scotland)
In this document ‘recipient’ means someone who is given money by the Independent Living Fund Scotland.
Jim welcomed everyone.
The recipient feedback survey is still being looked at.
There were no other things to talk about.
sustainability payments and Thank You payments
The vaccine programme is going ok. The Scottish Government have not said anything more about carrying on with the sustainability payments after 30 June 2021.
There is a 5 hundred pound payment called the Thank You payment. The Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) are still deciding how to organise the payments.
Some members are disappointed:
Members talked about telling their local Member of Scottish Parliament (MSP) to ask this question in Parliament.
Firstly the Independent Living Fund Scotland will finish looking carefully at the survey answers. Then Lee will tell the group what was found out.
The Advisory Group sent a letter to the sponsor team about the Independent Living Fund Scotland Available Income charge. The charge has been changed from 83 pounds to 43 pounds each week from 1 June 2021.
The Advisory Group wants there to be no charge at all in the future.
The Independent Living Fund Scotland has changed Policy 41.
The changes make it easier for recipients to choose how they use the money.
The Independent Living Fund Scotland has looked at all the policies for both the funds.
The policies are now:
The Independent Living Fund Scotland has made some changes to:
These are now on the website.
The Independent Living Fund Scotland will organise some online sessions to talk about these documents. These sessions will be for:
There has been nothing more said about this.
Linda thinks there will be a consultation later to help the Scottish Government decide how to take things forward.
The group talked about the changes to the Terms of Reference. These changes were made by the Northern Ireland Stakeholder Group.
Members thought that:
Linda said the group could focus on getting new members once each year.
It is time to choose a new Chairperson and a new Vice Chairperson. Linda asked everyone to think about who they would like to choose.
Lee asked everyone if they were happy to have their email address in group mail outs.
He asked them to send him an email to tell him.
The next meetings will be on:
All the meetings will be from 1.30pm to 3.30pm.
This is the end of the Minutes.
