TOGETHER IN THE SOUTH LEADERSHIP MEETING Venue: RPC ...

TOGETHER IN THE SOUTH LEADERSHIP MEETING

Venue: RPC Pipelines, 11 Christie Rd, Lonsdale

Date: 17-‐Feb-‐2016

Co-‐conveners: Debbie Dunn and Megan Hughes

Facilitator: Moira Deslandes, Together SA

Megan and Debbie welcomed everyone to the meeting and explained the agenda of the

meeting.

Participants:

Katrine Hildyard (Local MP, Reynell)

Megan Hughes (SDVS)

Debbie Dunn (Community Member)

Moira Deslandes (Together SA)

Alison Kershaw (Together SA)

Chris (Taikurrendi)

Robyn Holtham (City of Onkaparringa Coucillor)

Heather Merritt (City of Onkaparringa Coucillor)

Kate Turner (Pimpala P.S. DECD)

Danielle Bament (Housing SA)

Philomena Taylor (City of Onkaparringa Director)

Liz Hillyer (Junction Australia)

Karissa Clare (The Smith Family)

Kate Simpson (Together SA CEO)

Paula Dickson (DCSI/TogetherSA)

Suresh Lavu (Together SA/Student Support)

Joanne Bros (Learning Together, DECD)

Moira advised apologies received: Clare Randall (Wyatt), Belinda Uphill (Resident), Dave

Kelly (Hackham West C.C) Vicki Seaman (Data Volunteer), Christine Hatzi (DECD), Pat Maher

(DCSI).

Poster of work undertaken since last meeting of Together in the South by members of the

Leadership Group:

• Criteria group (Pat, Philomena, Karissa, Heather, Katrine, Debbie, Alison) met and

provided advice for today’s meeting.

• Draft literature review (Suresh & Genesis) for guiding the leadership group in the

indicator ranking process distributed.

• Community Benefit Grant (News Hounds) submitted by Moira & Paula.

• Website development request submitted to UniSA for Together in the South by

Suresh & Moira.

• Request from Anthony Mazza (Life without Barriers) – Megan

• Social Media updates (Website, Facebook) done by Moira.

• 2 Community Door Knock Training events held in Christie Downs and Hackham West

participated by Katrine, Heather, Robyn, Debbie, Karissa.

• Attendance at SAHMRI building Resilience Seminar – Karissa & Kate.

• Co-‐convenors Moira, Debbie, and Megan met on 10/02/2016 to discuss the agenda

and plan for the 17/02/2016 meeting.

A comparison of the Dunn Role Clarity Index taken before and after the meeting:

Role Clarity Index (Self score) At the beginning of the

meeting Towards the end of the meeting

Katrine 9 9

Megan 8 7

Suresh 1-‐2 3

Moira 8 8

Alison 5 6

Chris 4 5

Robyn 8 7

Heather 8 7

Kate (DECD) 7 5

Danielle 7 -‐

Philomena 8 6

Liz 6 6

Karissa 8 8

Kate (TSA) 8 9

Debbie 7 7

Paula 5 7

Joanne 3 4

INDICATOR ADVICE (Part 1): Providing Individual Ranking

INDICATORS

Comm. Power Proxy Power Data Power Ranking

Low Med High Low Med High Low Med High

1. Percent of parents with some form of post school qualification

2. Percent of babies born at term and of a healthy birth-‐weight (>2500gm).

3. Proportion of mothers reported breastfeeding at their infant’s six-‐month check-‐up

4. Proportion of children fully immunised at 2 years

5. Number of child protection substantiations

6. Percent of 4 year old children enrolled in a quality preschool program

7. Percent of children experiencing chronic non-‐attendance (ten days or more) in a term.

8. Percent of parents accessing the appropriate information about baby development

9. Percent of primary care giver forming a secure attachment with their babies

10. Number and percent of child protection notifications assessed as tier 2 or 31.

11. Number and percent of children presenting more than three times to hospital emergency

On arrival all present (plus those received by email earlier) completed the indicator ranking and

these were collated in real time by Suresh.

INDICATOR ADVICE (Part 2): Together SA – Statewide Indicator Selection

Kate (TSA CEO) talked about the Indicators project:

5-‐6 collaborations (Together in the South/ Together in the North/Mid Murray/Inner West/Inner North/APY Lands) have been working to bring 3-‐5 early childhood indicators for South Australia. Though all of them are not completely early childhood focused, early childhood is a significant/only focus. We will have the potential and scale to influence policy makers; political leaders etc. if we manage to get 3-‐5 recommended with 1 shared indicator to really shift the system in the interest of the children. 4 of the collaborations are meeting on 24th of Feb to work on consensus for 3-‐4 recommended and 1 shared indicator for possible scaling across the state. Leadership group along

with government agencies, community organisations have a great role to play in engaging and mobilizing community in this movement.

Group members were asked to rank the top 3-‐5 indicators from the top 11 indicators that were

finalised from the previous leadership meeting. A rough literature review was provided to the team

members beforehand to guide them through the ranking process. The results are as follows:

INDICATOR ADVICE (Part 3): Collation of Ranking information

Suresh presented results from the collated rankings.

Indicators that were ranked #1 are:

• 5. Number of child protection substantiations

• 6. Percent of 4 year old children enrolled in a quality preschool program

• 7. Percent of children experiencing chronic non-‐attendance (ten days or more) in a term

• 9. Percent of primary care giver forming a secure attachment with their babies

• 2. Percent of babies born at term and of a healthy birth-‐weight (>2500gm)



• 10. Number and percent of child protection notifications assessed as tier 2 or 3






• 8. Percent of parents accessing the appropriate information about baby development

• 2. Percent of babies born at term and of a healthy birth-‐weight (>2500gm)

After collating the results and discussions the following indicators were found to be less relevant and

hence agreed upon by the team to remove them from the list if they appear on the top 3-‐5

indicators:

• 1. Percent of parents with some form of post school qualification -‐ (didn’t rate)

• 2. Percent of babies born at term and of a healthy birth-‐weight (>2500gm) -‐ (John Lynch:

available data shows there is not much change in the last 15 years)

• 3. Proportion of mothers reported breastfeeding at their infant’s six-‐month check-‐up –

(didn’t rate / only certain people present, not a population measure)

• 4. Proportion of children fully immunized at 2 years -‐ (Financial incentives attached to the

immunization may skew population results)

INDICATOR ADVICE (Part 4): Arriving at Consensus

Top indicators that emerged are:


• 10. Number and percent of child protection notifications assessed as tier 2 or 3.

• 11. Number and percent of children presenting more than three times to hospital

emergency



• 9. Percent of primary care giver forming a secure attachment with their babies

• 8. Percent of parents accessing the appropriate information about baby development

INDICATOR ADVICE (Part 5): Advice to Together SA from Together in the South

Together in the South recommends to the next step in the Together SA statewide selection process

the following indicators in this order:

-‐ one indicator that takes into acocount the broadest definition and widest scope of child

protection and that is the most reliable out of indicators 5,10 &11

-‐ Percent of primary care giver forming a secure attachment with their babies (Indicator 9)

-‐ Percent of children experiencing chronic non-‐attendance (ten days or more) in a term

(Indicator 7)

-‐ Percent of parents accessing the appropriate information about baby development

(Indicator 8)

Discussion:

1,2,3,4:

It was agreed to focus on other indicators over the indicators 1, 2, 3, 4 from the list of top 11

indicators in the Together in the South Leadership Meeting on 17th of February for the following

reasons:

• 1. Percent of parents with some form of post school qualification -‐ (group members didn’t

rate this indicator as one of the top)

• 2. Percent of babies born at term and of a healthy birth-‐weight (>2500gm) -‐ (John Lynch:

available data shows there is not much change in the last 15 years)

• 3. Proportion of mothers reported breastfeeding at their infant’s six-‐month check-‐up –

(group members didn’t rate this indicator as one of the top / only certain people present,

not a population measure)

• 4. Proportion of children fully immunized at 2 years -‐ (Financial incentives attached to the

immunization may skew population results)

5, 10 &11:

• One indicator that takes into account the broadest definition and widest scope of child

protection and that is the most reliable out of indicators 5, 10 &11

6 & 7:

• Indicators 6 and 7 were agreed to be two discrete indicators, but when it comes to reality

the number of children accessing quality preschool program is low in many areas due to

reasons like non-‐availability of preschool or merging up of preschools etc. Indicator 7 about

chronic non-‐attendance appears to be a significant indicator of well-‐being and hence the

idea is to merge indicators 6 and 7 into one indicator with more emphasis on indicator 7.

8 & 9:

• Similarly indicator 8 about parents accessing appropriate information about baby

development doesn’t strongly reflect the well-‐being when compared to indicator 9 about

primary care giver forming a secure attachment with the babies and hence the idea is to

merge these two indicators with more emphasis on indicator 9.

Action Items:

• Approx. 2 hour briefing session – who is in and the resources (time, manpower, financial

resources etc.) that can be offered from the participating members

• Receive advice from Together SA researcher and the local leaders and Assets/Influence

exercise led by Katrine

• Writing up the agenda for a 2-‐day accountability plan development

1. Moira to send doodles for briefing session, 2 day accountability / action plan and next

community report back.

2. Debbie and Philomena to take Together in the South’s perspectives to the meeting at

Together SA on 24/2.

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