1. South Gloucestershire Dignity in Care Network 12 th Meeting. Diet & Nutrition and Continence. 6 th March 2015

2. Welcome & Introduction Bernard Wildsmith CEO, Aquila Partnership (formerly Care Learning)

3. House Keeping  Fire  Toilets  Mobile phones  Photographs

4. Programme  10.00Welcome and introduction  10.10Diet & Nutrition Louise Chambers – Milestones Trust  11.15Break – refreshments and networking  11.35Continence Jan Cotter – Sirona  12.20News, information & updates –12.30 Lunch and networking  1.00Home

5. . Diet & Nutrition. Louise Chambers Milestones Trust

6. Improving diet and nutrition in the care home setting Francine Russell Louise Chambers

7. Acknowledgement Without the initial financial support to South Gloucestershire S256 Funding Panel this project would not have been able to launch Thank you to S256 team Soil Association Support of Milestones Trust

8. How did it happen? Let me tell you a story

9. How to achieve the goal Milestones Trust launched a Good Food Group Working with Hannah Coleman (dietician) from Sirona making the bid a joint piece of work Working with Francine Russell of ‘All About Food’ Hannah contacted 11 of the Milestones Trust Learning Disability Homes in the South Glos area 73 people were screened using the MUST Tool 11 people found to be malnourished 1 home required extra support of another dietician

10. All About Food & What We Did 2 types of training developed and delivered: In house for service users and off site training for staff Improve knowledge and understanding of what a healthy balanced diet means Increase confidence and skills in preparing and cooking a range of healthy nutritious meals and snacks appropriate to the setting. Increase consumption of fruit and vegetables by modifying recipes to include extra vegetables and/fruit Increase awareness of what is in our food. – salt, saturated fats and sugar Improve knowledge of simple cooking skills that can be replicated in the home and when facilitating work with service users Modifying recipes for specific dietary needs.

11. Any obstacles?

12. Can’t cook / Won’t cook

13. What happened during the project? Trust developed a good food group Francine worked directly with 180 staff and 32 service users to train, educate and provide practical hands on work with the staff (this is where the most of the success has happened) Cohort of 10 staff trained with Square Food Foundation – further planned Working with the Soil Association to achieve the Bronze Quality Catering Mark Award – 75% of meals to be freshly prepared Publicity – local and national/catering magazines/dementia journal/ Working with Growing Support to enable homes to grow veggies to feed the kitchens Trust became Soil Association Food for Life Partner UWE are now undertaking a research project on the work Undertook work with Gary Brailsford – Dining with Dignity Development of the Trust Food Procurement and using Suppliers who are able to meet the Soil Associations Catering Mark Standards

14. Delicious Food

15. Staff From Mayfield Park

16. Outcomes Audit carried out in 16 care home settings to assess training needs Bespoke nutrition and cookery training delivered to 180 staff members Cookery sessions delivered to 32 services users in care homes and in flats 12 homes have incorporated new recipes into their setting menu Cooking clubs established by staff in 3 homes replicating recipes learnt All have been supplied with a set of 12 recipes that were taught on the course Food culture in the Trust is changing and continuing to evolve positively. Staff have demonstrated a higher level of interest in learning new recipes, handling unfamiliar foods and healthier cooking practice. Staff have requested follow up courses Training cost per staff member = £110

17. Philip’s First Cookery Demo

18. Questions ? ? ? ?

19. Break networking and refreshments

20. Continence. Jan Cotter Sirona

21. Week 2015 9 th to 13 th March 2015

22. To book a place on one of the above course dates: Please email your name, job title, workplace address, to hrworkforcedevelopment@southglos.gov.uk hrworkforcedevelopment@southglos.gov.uk

23. The Partnership  Become a member  Lots of benefits including free access to The Grey Matter Group’s Care Certificate Assessments  See flyers and info in newsletter

24. Free Care Act & Care Certificate Workshops  Aquila Partnership will be hosting free workshops on: 25th March – at Scotch Horn Leisure Centre, Nailsea,  9.30 – 12.30 – Intro to the Care Act and Care Certificate (Skills for Care & WayAheadCare.  1.15 – 3.45pm – The Care Certificate and the assessment tool

25. Tuesday 16 th June 2015 UWE Conference Centre

26. The free health & social care course and qualification finder

27. Workforce Development Fund (WDF) National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC)

28. Next network meetings: Friday 3 rd July2015 Friday 6 th November 2015 Friday 11 th March 2016

29. Thank you Lunch, networking and end.