Developing SPLAT to - PowerPoint Presentation

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Developing SPLAT to make the voice of learning disabled and autistic people even more powerful

SPLAT to the futureSlide2

Where we are now?

SPLAT is interested in everything to do with the lives of learning disabled and autistic adults and their parents and carers.

SPLAT does work around Health, Housing, Education and Work, and Community Matters.

SPLAT lets decision makers from places like the Council, the Health Service and other partners know what learning disabled and autistic people and their families think about things that matter to them.

SPLAT has working groups for certain subjects, like the Better Health Group.

SPLAT is the Learning Disability and Autism Partnership Board for Nottingham.

It meets six times a year and has a busy agenda with lots of things to do.Slide3

Why do we need to change?SPLAT meetings often get bogged down in details and not enough decision making takes place. It’s easy to lose track of what’s going on!

The new Autism Strategy has a lot of work that needs doing on it – it really needs a working group of its own.We need to do more work away from SPLAT meetings, to give people time and space to have their say. SPLAT needs to become more of a Board, where people come to make decisions based on work that has already been doneSlide4

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SPLAT to the future…Slide5

Working groupsThe working group meetings will have themes – Health, Housing, Education and Work, and Community Matters

. Before each Working Group

meeting we will have a

Big Listening Day

for all service users and their families so we can listen to as many voices as possible.

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Working Groups will use the results of the listening days to decide what issues and ideas for change they want to report to the SPLAT Board.

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SPLAT Board

will use these reports to tell the Council, the Health Service and other learning disability and autism service providers what it wants them to do to make services better and improve lives.Slide6

How many meetings?We plan to have four Listening Days

and Four Working Group meetings a year for both Learning Disability and Autism, plus four Board meetings – that’s twenty meetings a year in total.*

We think this way of doing things will enable more people to get involved and get their voices heard, and help the SPLAT Board be more powerful too.

*That’s the same as the number of splats on this page!Slide7

We want to know?…Do you think this idea will work?

Is there anything missing you want to add?What shall we call the two working groups?

Who will decide which people from the working groups go to the SPLAT Board meetings?

And is there anything else you want to know?