1. Re-enabling Rural Communities:
Understanding rural culture
for health and social care service planning
Lindsay Haveland
Support and Development Officer
CTA Cymru
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2. Cefndir CCC
About CTA
UK-wide charity with staff and offices in Wales
Members include CT operators, LA’s, charities, social
enterprises
CT meets the travel and social needs of people who are
disadvantaged because of age, location, mobility, income
etc.
In North Wales there are 21 CT operators, with 89% of
their staff being volunteers, providing over 1m journeys p.a.
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3. Y sector yn y Gogledd
The sector in North Wales
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4. Y Sefyllfa Gyfredol
Current Situation
Healthcare in NW is changing
Consultation on Primary &
Community Services
Specialist services centralised into
specified DGH
BUT 40-50% of NW residents in
transport poverty
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5. Ble Nesaf?
Where Next?
CTAW part of National Programme Board for WG NEPT
In NW, partnership between CTA Wales, CT operators and
BCU
Aim of ‘mixed provision of service’ which includes CT
X-border transport to clinic which has moved location
CT running feeder services in rural areas to transport hubs
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6. Edrych Ymlaen
Looking Forward
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7. Manylion Cyswllt
Contact Details
CTA Wales - 01745 356751 / 01792 844290
ctawales@ctauk.org
http://www.ctauk.org
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Editor's Notes
The aim of community transport is to help those who cannot access public or other forms of transport because of age, disability, location or poverty. The Community Transport Association, with branches in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, is an umbrella body with a wide range of members from small community groups to big community transport providers operating on a very large scale.The Community Transport providers across North Wales are mostly charities or charitable trusts, some limited by guarantee. They have 378 members of staff, over 89% of them are volunteers, providing approximately one million journeys a year. The range of vehicles includes accessible and other types of minibuses, accessible people carriers, cars and at least one large bus. And that does not include volunteer drivers’ own cars.Amongst the services provided are those for education, shopping, community/social, group hire, healthcare journeys, delivery of heavy goods andvehiclehire. Non transport services include: equipment hire, dog walking, home visits and home adaptations.Some providers are very local, others cover much larger areas, locally, regionally and nationally (internationally if you count England as a foreign country!).
So, what are the barriers to joined up transport across North Wales? It’s not just the obvious one of organisations which have been set up to fulfil a specific need not wanting to lose their identity by being swallowed up by a more regional provider; nor the problems around the different governance systems, not only between one CT group and another, but also between statutory funders, such as the LHB or the LAs – and they, the LAs have six different government processes anyway! It’s things like the new Disclosure and Barring system – what is a Regulated Activity, and can organisations whose generic functions fall outside that category, access the super enhanced CRB if they are actually providing a regulated activity under contract. Then are the legalities which govern CT provision and permits, not for profit, and not in partnership with a commercial organisation. But perhaps the most insidious barrier at present is the one of boundaries. Like all Third Sector organisations, we are being asked to collaborate, co-operate and combine resources across North Wales. However, the various funding streams which support that work are for “in county” provision, and Social Services which have been the major contributor for a number of our members, are now stipulating that the funding cannot be utilised for ANY healthcare journeys. Oh, for co-operation and collaboration in the higher echelons! So, Mrs Jones and two others who live in south Denbighshire travel once a month to their GP surgery for a check up. That is in south Conwy. Their LA funders say that it is quite all right for them to be taken, the driver will receive expenses BUT they cannot pick up Mrs Williams on the way, even though they pass her front door, because Mrs Williams is not a Denbighshire resident! Mrs Williams nearest “authorised” provider is over 20 miles away. And then there are the cuts to public service transport budgets………..
