The new and updated Lincolnshire Safeguarding Adults Board Safeguarding Policy and Procedures have recently been approved.
Please see the below documents for details.
LSAB website https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/safeguarding/lsab
LCPF Survey 2023
Our latest survey is out now and we need your help please.
Please note that whilst we are using paper versions for some distribution we would encourage Parent Carers and SENCos to use the E-Survey system if possible (not available on some mobiles (landscape view helps) but designed for tablets and Desktops)
Link here https://www.lincspcf.org.uk/Survey2023/Survey_Home.php
Why should I complete it?
For SENCos, settings and schools
For Parent Carers
How can I help ?
SENCos
All Professionals and SENCos
We have tested the paper and E-survey formats with parents and each survey only takes 8-10 minutes to complete and can be done online.
If you would like LPCF to come along to a coffee morning or event in February with your parents to encourage them to complete it and let them know why it is so important please let us know.
This is where you get the chance to tell us how it really is.
Please don’t miss your chance.
PLEASE HELP US TO CAPTURE LOTS OF VIEWS AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN LINCOLNSHIRE
Thank you for your support.
Is the cost of living affecting your health. The rising cost of living (rising household energy bills, inflation and interest rates) is adversely affecting people’s mental health and wellbeing. Many charities and campaign groups are warning that people on the lowest and lower incomes have been hit the hardest.
We have also heard from you about the impact the rising cost of living is having on people.
As a result, we have started a piece of work to assess the wider health impacts of the cost of living on people and to be able to make appropriate recommendations to health and care services.
Healthwatch Lincolnshire would like to better understand what impact the rising cost-of-living is having on people in our community’s overall wellbeing and ability to access essential health and care services.
Sharing your experiences will help us to identify important issues, and work with the NHS and social care services to improve support for those that need it most. Please do your bit to help yourself and the whole community through these tough times by filling in our quick confidential survey.
Take the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/2LKC3HQ
You can participate by completing our short online survey which will take about ten minutes to complete or additionally, we would welcome visiting your group to speak to people. For more information, please contact info@healthwatchlincolnshire.co.uk
Copies of the survey in any other format can be requested by contacting us by email at info@healthwatchlincolnshire.co.uk or by phone 01205 820 892. People can also contact us to talk through the questions with a member of the team if they would prefer to do this.
For more information please visit www.healthwatchlincolnshire.co.uk or contact Dean Odell at Healthwatch Lincolnshire on 01205 820892 or email dean@healthwatchlincolnshire.co.uk
LCVS have various workshops/training programmes that will be taking place soon, these are:
Book via this link – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/full-cost-recovery-workshop-tickets-489398743817
Book via this link – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legacy-fundraising-workshop-tickets-489653495787
Register your interest via this link https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=VV6mHef7UU6DzmiG0kWAADaZFizZyl5PoCaYtMs5Q4lUQVVZQldLWklVNzdLWEFFMUdYRVlFM1FROSQlQCN0PWcu
If Homeshare is new to you, it’s a shared living model that enables unrelated people to share their lives for mutual gain. Homeshare usually involves an older person who would benefit from both companionship and some low-level support at home and someone in need of affordable accommodation who is happy to help around the house. Homesharers are often younger people, students, or key public service workers who can’t afford housing where they work, are perhaps saving for a deposit or have recently moved to a new area. In return for low-cost accommodation the Homesharer provides a minimum of 10 hours of support each week to the Householder (cooking, laundry, food shopping, appointments etc). You can read real life Homeshare stories here
We have been commissioned by Lincolnshire County Council to report on the potential of a Homeshare service in the county. We want to include the views of the VCS in the county, as they play such as important part in the supporting Lincolnshire residents. Please can we ask for your help to:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/HSUKLINCSORG
Tell us what YOU think about Homeshare!
Homeshare is a way for people to share lives and homes for mutual benefit. Homeshare reduces loneliness and tackles the housing crisis by matching people with spare rooms, with people are happy to chat, lend a hand around the house and live sociably.
While Homeshare is open to anyone, it usually involves an older person in need of companionship and often some low-level practical support around the home and younger people struggling to afford housing where they work and study. In return for low-cost accommodation the younger person sharing their home provides companionship and around 10 hours of practical support each week, such as cooking, gardening, and cleaning.
People are taking part in Homeshare across the UK but there are currently no services in Lincolnshire. We have been commissioned by Lincolnshire County Council to understand the potential for a new Homeshare service in the county. Please help us by completing our short survey and telling us about your views on Homeshare and how it can benefit local people in Lincolnshire. The survey is anonymous and should only take a few minutes to complete: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/HSUKLINCS
The next Personalisation Huddle is 9.30-11am on Friday 20th January and the focus is ‘Shared Lives’.
Shared Lives is a service commissioned by Adult Social Care at Lincolnshire County Council, which provides a method of supported accommodation to people, allowing them to live in the community as part of a family and to retain as much independence as possible. It is a similar concept to the Fostering Service that is provided for children and young people, but is the equivalent for adults who are eligible for social care support. The aim of the service is to “match” people who require support with a Shared Lives Carer based on each of their individual strengths, interests and preferences.
Click here to join the meeting or alternatively email lhnt.itsallaboutpeople@nhs.net to be sent a calendar invitation
We look forward to seeing you there!
Improving Numeracy Skills
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gave a speech about his five priorities for the coming months. One ambition was to improve numeracy and get all pupils in England to study some form of maths until they were 18.
We know from working with many employees across Health and Social Care, the impact in not having some form of numeracy qualification or numeracy development can have on our healthcare workforce. We also know how this can lower self-esteem and confidence in people’s ambition to move forward in their career. We would like to offer our back to basics confidence building numeracy courses which can lead to a recognised qualification in functional skills that is flexible, achievable and tailored to individuals which is not driven by a curriculum agenda. Get in touch for more information: lhnt.apprenticeshipenquiries@nhs.net
Active Lincolnshire
You can read the full Let’s Move Lincolnshire strategy here. Partners can pledge their commitment to achieving the strategy here.
One of the guiding principles underpinning the Let’s Move Lincolnshire strategy focuses on Insight, Evaluation and Shared Measures. We have developed a learning framework and are refining the methodology, and tools that allow consistent and simple ways to report impact. One of these measures is social value and we’ve had training on the Social Value Engine.
Ahead of funding rounds in January and February we ran a Together Fund webinar to support local organisations to decide if this funding is for them. You can watch the webinar here. Since the last update we’ve awarded funding for the Ever Young Club (£3,277), Cherry Judo Club (£4,036), Boston Judo Club (£1290), and Active Nation (£5000) to set up a new parkrun in Lincoln.
Cost-of Living Support. We have developed a one stop shop on the Active Lincolnshire website for finding information, insights, resources, funding, and case studies that will support the organisations who provide activities who face the challenges of raising energy costs and cost-of-living impacts on paid and voluntary workforce. On the Let’s Move Lincolnshire website we’ll be adding information on ways to keep active for free and we’ve already added a ‘free and low cost’ filter to the Activity Finder. We are seeking examples from physical activity and sport organisations and businesses on how they’ve reduced their own costs and/or supported residents facing financial challenges to continue to be active. Please contact Dom if you have a story to tell.
In the latest episode of ‘Tale of Two Counties Health Podcast’ Matt and Charlie are joined by Dr Rebecca O’Connor of ROC Research to discuss how we monitor and evaluate our work connecting physical activity with health partners. Lincolnshire’s work has developed a model that we are testing with our latest work in maternity services and social prescribing.
As part of our work in maternity Dr Marlize DeVivo industry expert and Co-CEO of The Active Pregnancy Foundation delivered a webinar exploring the important role of physical activity in pregnancy and beyond. The session was for physical activity providers looking to support women to access safe and appropriate physical activity opportunities during pregnancy. Any providers wanting to get involved can read the write-up for more information and contact Donna Sutton.
We delivered our first Clinical Champions Training for healthcare professionals on 30th November. This training developed by OHID and delivered by a healthcare profession is a peer-to-peer programme that provides evidence-based resources to increase confidence and support clinical practice in line with guidance. Giving clinicians the knowledge, skills and confidence to have conversations about physical activity with their patients.
Alongside a guest blog from Nigel Stephenson of One You Lincolnshire on the outcome of the MOVE-ember challenge and what to expect from the January Heart & Sole programme, we have the latest blog from Matt Evans on how working with social prescribing has created opportunities within the Musculoskeletal (MSK) clinical pathway.
Greg Brown our Children and Young People lead at Active Lincolnshire has been writing about the collaborative approach we’re taking to develop this strand of the Let’s Move Lincolnshire strategy. On top of releasing the findings of our commissioned research, in the next two months we’ll be announcing exciting new work opening up school facilities and several deliver projects focused on improving mental health, confidence and resilience, as well as the new school games programme.
We’re also in the process of commissioning a service provider for an innovative digital product that engages with children, young people and families via mobile or digitally interactive platforms to incentivise physical activity to boost mental health and drive behaviour change.
We share the latest on connected communities in our focused strategy update which shares some detail behind our understanding places approach. We’ve been out and about meeting communities, exploring localities and attending stakeholder events including the Empowering Health Communities event in Boston and Skegness Community Connections event. You can also read the Director of Transformation’s blog ‘This Place Matters’ explaining how we are working with residents and the system to support community-led change in Mablethorpe.
Our community-centred bike donation scheme will deliver through local hubs that include bike donation, restoration and maintenance, skills training and qualifications, and learn to ride programmes. We are seeking partners who are interested in taking an active role in the project as collection points, volunteers, or community partners. Please contact Jon Hughes.
The #StrideAndRide campaign, promoting walking and cycling as cost-effective activity is currently live and we are seeking partners to add walking and cycling opportunities to the Let’s Move Lincolnshire website. We are hosting a webinar on the afternoon of the 17th January to explore the learning from the test and learn phase and provide partners who promote walking and cycling with the tools to increase engagement. Contact Paul for an invitation.
Active Lincolnshire continue to meet with strategic partners to develop new ways of working, to create collaborative solutions to tackle big issues. During Nov-Dec 22 we’ve been responding to the Integrated Care Partnership Strategy via our role on the planning and development group to ensure suitable measures, outputs and actions for physical activity are included in this important document for the future health and care sector and partners in Lincolnshire.
In December we met with the Housing team from South Kesteven to investigate the practical ways in which physical activity can be embedded into their ways of working. We started by gaining a better understand the lives of the residents they work with, the places they live and the connection points for residents with the council services. We’ve also met with Lincolnshire Football Association, Shine Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire YMCA, and One You Lincolnshire to align connections more closely across each organisation and find ways to increase impact. Read more on how we deliver the Agile Systems strand of the strategy in this blog.
The next deadline for Together Fund applications is approaching -apply for your community group or club by Wednesday, 11th January for the next round.
Sport England’s Together Fund exists to help reduce the negative impact of coronavirus and support grassroots clubs and community groups working with our target audiences to grow and enable more people to be more active. We are looking to support projects in Lincolnshire working with our target audiences with applications between £500 – £5000.
Find out more and apply at:
We are pleased to announce the new Mental Health and Wellbeing Community Investment Fund, following agreement with Lincolnshire partners and as part of the Community Mental Health Transformation Programme. This brings together the Community Asset Development Allocation and the Managed Care Network, Mental health funding.
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Community Investment fund will be divided to form a large Sustainability Fund, and a smaller Innovation Fund distributed based on a weighted population health profile that aligns to the 7 District Council footprints to ensure equity countywide.
The Sustainability Fund, which will hold the majority share of monies, will be open to Lincolnshire VCSE partners on an annual basis with the allocation of funding for each individual project gradually decreasing by pre-determined proportions over a period of 3 years.
The smaller Innovation Fund will enable organisations to apply for smaller grants (from £1,000 up to a maximum of £10,000 (subject to review based on proposal and number of beneficiaries). Projects within the Innovation fund will be for a maximum of 12 months to pilot new and innovative ideas in their communities before seeking, if appropriate, to apply to the Sustainability Fund.
The funding available and the overarching aims of the fund will be to: