Issue - meetings

Report of the Service Director, Legal and Governance recommending that the Panel discuss, amend and agree a final version of the Making Southampton Dementia Friendly Inquiry report, attached.

The Panel considered the report of the Service Director, Legal and Governance seeking agreement for a final version of Making Southampton Dementia Friendly Inquiry report.

RESOLVED that the report be agreed, subject to the following amendments:

Recommendation 4 -That the Council use strategic drivers such as the community safety plan, health and wellbeing strategy, local transport plan, planning function as well as strategies for older people and people with dementia as levers to reinforce the needs of people living with dementia.

Recommendation 6 - That Dementia Friends sessions are made compulsory for all customer facing Council employees, including elected members, and that it is included in Council and relevant Capita inductions.

Recommendation 10 - Explore the opportunity to create a dementia roadmap for Southampton that provides high quality information about the dementia journey alongside local information about services, support groups and care pathways to assist primary care to support people with dementia, their families and carers.

Recommendation 12 - Through the Health and Wellbeing Board and NHS Southampton Clinical Commissioning Group General Assembly Southampton GP Practices are actively encouraged to sign up to the ISPACE initiative.

Recommendation 18 - That the City Council explores opportunities to develop a Community Toilet Scheme in Southampton.