C3SC Joint Starting Well/Health, Social Care and Well Being Network meeting: Friday 12th December 10am-12pm

Cardiff Third Sector Council will host a joint Starting Well/Health, Social Care and Well Being Network meeting on Friday 12th December. It will be a two hour in person session between 10am-12pm, at Butetown Community Centre.

The meeting will feature a presentation from Anna Tee, Partnership Programme Manager at Cardiff and Vale Regional Partnership Board, on a proposal to improve engagement from babies, children and young people across the Starting Well Programme and a discussion session facilitated by C3SC.

Please join us to have your say on how the Regional Partnership Board’s Starting Well Programme can meet their commitment to hearing the voices of people with lived experience and improve co-production across their programmes of work, and to help scope a new approach that has children and young people as active members.

The aim of this approach is to help the RPB’s Starting Well Programme:

– Improve the opportunities for children and young people to have a meaningful role in shaping regional priorities and decisions that affect their lives.
– Provide a means for input, balance, and a two-way conversation between the children, young people and the organisations responsible for providing services.
– Build on the strengths of established youth councils, third sector networks, and lived experience groups, rather than creating new forums.
– Embed co-production principles by involving children and young people as equal partners in governance and service design.
– Recognise that while valuable, the group may not fully represent all children and young people—particularly those less likely to engage with formal participation structures – so will avoid the traditional and potentially excluding meeting structures.
– Enable members to share discussions with wider networks and bring collective insights back in to inform decision-making.

Alongside opportunities for networking, connection, and learning from peers, C3SC Forums are a great opportunity for Third Sector groups to meet up and receive up to date information from guest speakers and presenters, provide insight and influence, develop solutions to local challenges, and make alliances. Network members are always welcome to share ideas and co-produce the meeting agenda on matters in which the sector can play an active role and provide solutions. Please email Thomas Crockett at thomas.c@c3sc.org.uk (Starting Well) or Duncan Innes at Duncan.i@c3sc.org.uk (Health and Well Being) with your suggestions of current or emerging items to discuss or explore at these meetings.

For any further enquiries, please contact us on 07973 725335 or enquiries@c3sc.org.uk.

We look forward to seeing you!