Date & Venue:
3rd June 2020, Microsoft Teams (Online Meeting)
Key Highlights:
- Leadership & Membership Updates:
- Inspector Jo Walmsley (Norfolk Police) replacing Lucy King as a representative.
- Amanda Dunn attended as Vice Co-chair (observer).
- Governance & Working Group Structure Updates:
- New Governance, Compliments & Complaints Working Group established to handle board queries and policy reviews.
- Engagement, Workforce Development, and Diagnosis Working Groups to meet regularly via MS Teams.
- Data and Education Working Groups to report into the Board as virtual groups.
- SEND Transformation Programme to provide quarterly reports.
- Autism Strategy & COVID-19 Survey:
- Local Autism Strategy (“My Autism, Our Lives, Our Norfolk”) launched on 1 June 2020.
- Launch supported by press release, newsletter, and COVID-19 autism impact survey.
- Survey results to be analyzed in six weeks—data to inform service development.
- East of England ADASS Network requested to use Norfolk’s survey model regionally.
- NAPB Complaints Management Overhaul:
- Concerns raised about complexity of handling complaints within the Board.
- Decision made to appoint an Independent Reviewer to oversee complaints.
- Statutory organizations asked to contribute funding for this role (feedback due by 17 June 2020).
- Norfolk Police required additional clarification before committing to the process.
- Other Key Announcements:
- Engagement Working Group introduced a Wellbeing Check Survey to gather anonymous feedback after meetings.
- Consistency in Board communication: “social/physical distancing” to be used instead of “social distancing”.
Next Steps:
- Review and analyze COVID-19 autism survey results.
- Finalize funding contributions for the Independent Reviewer role.
- Implement new Governance, Complaints & Compliments Working Group.
- Continue engagement efforts through the Autism Norfolk Forum.
Next Meeting: 16 July 2020, Microsoft Teams
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