Date & Venue:
25th July 2018, Kings Centre, Great Yarmouth
Key Highlights:
- Leadership & Membership Updates:
- New attendees welcomed, including Claire Miller and Rosemary Boutet.
- Several board positions remain vacant; elections extended to increase autism community representation.
- Working Group Updates:
- Workforce Development & Training: Report approved; focus on improving autism-related training for professionals.
- Engagement: Progress made but concerns raised about a lack of consultation with the autism community.
- Data Collection: Issues identified in autism recording within local authorities; efforts underway to improve clarity and accuracy.
- Diagnostic Pathways: Need for improved transparency in adult and children’s autism diagnosis pathways.
- Autism Strategy Development:
- Draft Norfolk Autism Strategy in progress, with a task force set up to refine and finalize it by October.
- Autism Self-Assessment Framework pending release.
- Co-Production Concerns:
- Concerns raised about the statutory authorities’ management of autism initiatives without full co-production.
- Board agreed on a workshop to improve co-production with an independent facilitator.
- Education & SEND (EHCPs):
- Challenges highlighted, including understaffing and delays in assessments.
- Proposal to set up a working group focused on education-related autism issues.
- Communications & Engagement:
- NAPB website updated, but concerns that autism representatives were not involved in content creation.
- Adoption of a new NAPB logo.
- Next Steps:
- Elections for vacant board positions.
- Continued refinement of the Autism Strategy.
- Autism awareness training for board members before the next meeting.
Next Meeting: 4 October 2018, Norwich
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