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Tam Gilbert attended the All Age Disability Partnership Board meeting at The Grange, Wallasey on Wednesday 26th March. Below is the feedback from the meeting: Key Points • Access to work changes - new model coming - connect to work, broken down into support and non support groups. • Work going on at Springfield to deal with delays to discharge in mental health beds - social work team support, 3 month trail coming to an end but work will continue as it has been successful. • New report out on deaths of children 0-18 with Learning Disability and Autism broken into themes. • Thematic Updates - these groups are still developing and we were all tasked with looking at membership for gaps before next meeting: • Health & Wellbeing • Enriched Lives • Independent Living • Employability & Economic Wellbeing • Autistic People Steering Group What is Important? Thematic groups: • Health & Wellbeing • Enriched Lives • Independent Living • Employability & Economic Wellbeing • Autistic People Steering Group Are the sector adequately represented in these groups?

Tam Gilbert attended the All Age Disability Partnership Board meeting at The Grange, Wallasey on Wednesday 22nd January. Below is the feedback from the meeting: Key Points • Strategy Easy Read PDF documents on Wirral Council website - negotiating with marketing to do this, discussion over consistency of easy read. • STOMP is now called Medicine Optimisation. • Delivering better Value work in Children's services - coproduction with families, working to find gaps in commissioning to improve services for SEND children embedding graduated approach and discussion of Portsmouth model for ND pathway. • discussed potential for Zoop - new Autism Hub at Open Door - potential for autism stream members of Autism theme that feeds into AAD partnership board. • Early stages of improving adult mental health services - prevention focus • Transitions - new target operating model being developed What is Important? Both the work on ND pathway & DBV involve service mapping and identifying commissioning gaps which has potential for new commissioned work that the sector could deliver.