Parenting is tough, but it can be so much harder if you are neurodivergent and no one has given you the understanding and resources of how to manage looking after your home and children. In this session, we go through how important it is to understand your own challenges and help you to develop ways …
Overview Adult social care covers a wide range of activities to enable people to live independently, stay well and safe. Promoting Independence is the term used by Norfolk County Council to describe their vision for social care. Norfolk County Council want to support people to be independent, well, and able to deal with life’s challenges …
Norfolk County Council worked with autistic people, their parents and carers, and those who support autistic people to design a new adult autism short-term support service. As part of this engagement, autistic people told us what they want the new service to be called. Please help us choose a name for this service from a …
Message from the Norfolk Charging Reference Group The Charging Reference Group which includes Equal Lives, Family Voice, Disability Network Norfolk Group, Making it Real, Carers Voice and the Autism Partnership Board representatives have been working with Norfolk County Council (NCC) to inform how the Social Care Charging Policy works in practice. We want to strengthen …
A message from Norfolk County Council : “We are undertaking a joint review of Norfolk arrangements for improving both the Learning Disability and Autism services for adults we commission as Norfolk County Council and Norfolk & Waveney Integrated Care Board. A joint project team is working closely with an independent partner, Tricordant, who have now …
The Centre of Applied Autism Research at The University of Bath is running University Transition Autism School (UTAS). UTAS is a series of two events (in-person or online) for autistic students (self-diagnosed and diagnosed) starting university in autumn 2023. UTAS aims to provide support to autistic students as they begin university and throughout the first …
A message from Autism Bedfordshire As a reminder we will be continuing our theme of looking at the National Autism Strategy, focussing this time on transitions to adult services. Meeting details: We will have other professionals joining us to talk about: The meeting is held online via MS Teams and you will need to register …
Skills for Care are currently looking for experts by experience to join their Expert Advisor Group. The Skills for Care advisory group makes sure that people have the right skills to work in social care in the United Kingdom. This can include support workers, home workers, and social workers. The Experts advisory group is made …
In September 2021, Spectrum 10K paused their study after feedback from autistic people and their parents and carers about the use of data collection, and consent and the use of data collected in future studies. The study was going to look at “the genetic and environmental factors that contribute to autism and related physical and …
Norfolk County Council is working with autistic people aged 16 plus to plan what type of support a new adult autism social care service could offer. The service aims to support autistic adults by providing short-term practical support to live as independently as possible. The questionnaire is aimed at autistic people aged 16 and over, …
