The current Plan for Norfolk County Council’s Adult Services is out of date and they have been asked to update this to reflect the current difficulties experienced by those in Norfolk. The Strategy is currently made up of three Priorities: To update their plan Adult Social Services have held several engagement activities and would like …
Thank you to everyone who took part in naming the new Short term support service This service will be called ‘ Norfolk Autism Adult Support Service’ We hope to share more details about this new Autism specific service soon.
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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 …
