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HOME  SAFETY  SCOTLANDMINUTES  OF  MEETING – 11^th June 2009

The Royal Sailors Rest, Helensburgh  



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Teresa Murphy (Chair)                       North Lanarkshire Council

David Birrell (Secretary)                  Fife Community Safety Partnership

Collette Corry                                  Glasgow Community & Safety Services

Diane Lumley                                      West Lothian CHCP

Margaret Brunton                            South Lanarkshire Council

Ann Browning                                      South Lanarkshire Council

Jim France                                           North Lanarkshire Council

Bill Petherick                                   East Ayrshire Council

Brian Robins                                        Argyll & Bute Council

Eric Whitelaw                                      Argyll & Bute Council

Hugh Hamilton                                     Clackmannanshire Council  



1.  Apologies

Nikkie Butters                                  RoSPA

Elizabeth Lumsden                          RoSPA

Paul Richardson                                 Borders Council

Laura McDermott                               Dundee City Council

Kate Connelly                                      Argyll & Bute Council

Caroline Brown                                East Dunbartonshire Council 



2.  Minutes of previous meeting

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and agreed as a true record

Proposed Bill Petherick and Seconded by Jim France.  



3.  Matters Arising

3.1 Hugh advised that there has been no response to Lindsay looking in to the Aspirin Extra Tablets and agreed to contact then again to express his disappointment at their lack of response. Teresa updated Hugh on issues discussed at the previous meeting.    

3.2  Bill enquired about Collette’s safety equipment scheme being discontinued. Collette advised that there is no equipment being fitted at present although she will continue in her role. Two weeks ago Glasgow Housing association was asked for a bid and may consider some funding. 

3.3  Jim France has been speaking to the Community Safety Manager in Edinburgh and advised that home safety is continuing in Edinburgh. Teresa has e-mailed Jim Black.  

3.4  Teresa reported that she had received an acknowledgement regarding our response to the consultation on the long term strategy for population surveys in Scotland. She also advised that our comments in response to the article on cigarette substitutes had been printed in the electronic version of Nursing in Practice.            



4. Website Update 

David advised that the Announcement Banner has been changed from National Family Week to Child Safety Week. Teresa thanked David for his ongoing upkeep of the web. Ann hopes to provide some updates to the website. 



5        Electrical Safety Council 

5.1       Teresa spoke about the Electrical Safety Council event recently held at the Scottish Parliament. She advised she had the opportunity to speak to Christine Graham MSP who showed an interest in our work. This had been followed up by an email giving Christine more background on home safety. It was suggested that we possibly book a display to be held in the Scottish Parliament.( to tie in with year of Home safety 2010)She quickly showed us the power point presentation slides that had been sent by Cherry Read of ESC and discussed the ideas that Paul Richardson had detailed on his email re the possibility of working jointly with ESC on some projects. It was decided to invite Cherry to a future meeting to get a better understanding of the projects she is undertaking and see if there are was that we can work together to our mutual benefit. 



6.  Forward Planning  

6.1       National Family Week Campaign. Teresa thanked Bill for the National Family Week Hazard House Posters. The National Family Week website mentioned that we had produced a poster and gave a link to our website. Teresa thanked everyone for their contributions. Bill reported that he still had 1000 posters left. Jim France reported that the SAPC Home Safety Committee were impressed by the poster and gave suggestions for further distribution.  Bill suggested that the poster could be sent to MP’s and the first minister at the Scottish Parliament. 

6.2       Home Safety Year 2010. There has been no update on the approach to Ikea Edinburgh hosting a launch of Home safety Year 2010 (following a negative response from Ikea Glasgow).   Discussion followed and it was suggested that we possibly contact B&Q- Teresa to contact Nikkie for update before any decision made.  Suggestions were made to an online or newspaper competition.    Bill suggested a subgroup to carry this forward. Teresa asked that everyone bring ideas to the next meeting. For publicity we should use newspapers and local radio stations.  Bill is continuing to work on the banner. Due to loss of focus in enlargement the overall design may need to be reconsidered.   

7.  Reports ESC/SAPC/NHIPC/SCSN/IHS 

7.1      SAPC

Jim France already reported that the SAPC Home Safety Committee were impressed by the poster and also gave an update from their meeting held at Livingston on 3^rd June. Jim, Teresa and Cllr Claire Adamson are to meet Fergus Ewing at the Scottish Parliament on the 17^th June at 3.30pm.  The intention is to raise Home Safety with him and to ask for his support.  Jim extended the invitation to anyone else who would like to attend.  Teresa stated that this was a very good opportunity to make our point at a senior level in the government and asked that everyone think of bullet points they think should be raised and get them to Jim or herself ASAP. 



7.2       NHIPC         

No Meeting since last HSS meeting. Teresa has sent apologies and a report for the next meeting. 



7.3       SCSN

Jim gave a short update. Since becoming elected to the executive he is striving to ensure home safety is given appropriate attention within their agenda. 



7.4       IHS

Minutes of the last meeting have been circulated by David. David will be attending the AGM at Watford on 7^th July.  



8.  A.O.C.B 

8.1       Ann raised the lack of recognition of the work of home safety officers in a recent CAPT newsletter detailing those involved with injury prevention. She will letter them advising of this omission. 

8.2       Brian raised a discussion on what training was useful for new starts to his project. 

8.3       Diane advised of new “too hot to handle labels from Bikkipegs. She agreed to write to them asking for more information. Bill suggested they may be interested in sponsoring the year of safety. 

8.4       Jim advised that South Ayrshire are withdrawing from SAPC.  

8.5       Hugh discussed the FAI into the tragic death of a toddler through strangulation by a blind cord. David agreed to look into highlighting this on the web- possibly with a link to the newspaper report. 

8.6       Following discussion she had with Liz Lumsden Teresa raised the possibility of HSS making a contribution to SCSA to allow Mike Hayes to continue to attend those meetings. She agreed with the suggestion that she should have had more information on previous funding, will remedy that and email members ASAP. The group agreed (7 for, 2 against, 2 abstentions). The figure proposed was £200. Bill suggested that should the chair be unavailable to attend outside meetings other members should deputise.                         



 9  Area Reports

The members present gave an overview of what they are working on in their council area. 



10.  Date and time of Next Meeting

The next meeting will take place at Stirling on Thursday 13^th August.