Issue - meetings

Consideration was given to a report on the Lived Experience and Making It Real Board.

Adults and Health would form a Making It Real Board made up of People with Lived Experience who have, are or will in the future, access services. The local authority was successful in a funding bid to help build Making It Real. As part of the Powering our Future programme, the Community Mission was focussed on empowering our communities to become more independent and utilise their insights and experiences to inform future service delivery.  A fundamental part of this work would be to gain knowledge from communities, including people with Lived Experience by fully engaging them in the transformation journey, putting communities at the heart of everything the Council did.

RESOLVED that:-

1. The proposal for a Making It Real board and timescales for implementation be implemented.

2. Agree in principle to develop a policy and supporting processes to enable the payment of expenses and potentially financial remuneration for People with Lived Experience for their time involved with Making It Real.

3. Agree in principle plans for training, development, and communications to support Making It Real and to link in with other initiatives including Powering Our Future and CQC inspection preparation work.