Oxfordshire Autism Partnership Board meets for 2nd time: notes of meeting
Notes from the Oxfordshire Autism Partnership Board 19 January 2012
Present:
Parents and people with autism
• Faye Brewerton (FB)– parent and person with autism
• Paul Isaacs (PI) – Autism Oxford and person with autism
• Sarah Hewitt (SH) – person with autism
National Autistic Society
• Jo Clay (JC)
Autism Oxford
• Kathy Erangey (KE) – parent
Autism Family Support
• Gita Lobo (GL)
Local government
• Alison Blaylock (AB) – Special Educational Needs Support Service
• Annelies Henshall – Early Years Intervention Service
• Janet Johnson (JJo) – Special Educational Needs Lead
• John Dixon (JD) – Deputy Director, Adult Social Care
• Jonathan Dennett – Fitzharry’s School
• Lara Fromings – Learning Disability Commissioning and Contracts
• Marian Roiser (MR) – Parent Partnership
• Netta Buckett (NB) – Early Years
• Patricia Gibson – Commissioning Manager, Children’s Services
• Richard Brooks – Autism Resource Base
• Sarah Ainsworth (SA) – Children’s Disability Service
• Sue Edwards (SE) – Special Educational Needs Support Service
Oxfordshire County Council Social and Community Services
Oxfordshire County Council Children, Education and Families
Health services
• Juliet Long (JL) – NHS Oxfordshire
• Sally Powis (SP) – Ridgeway Partnership, clinician
• Yvonne Taylor (YT) – Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Providers
• Sue Osborn (SO) – Kingwood Trust
• Sue Brooks (SBro) – Connexions
Apologies:
• Ann Nursey (AN) – Lead Commissioner, adults of working age and older people with Learning Disabilities
• Fenella Trevillion (FT) – NHS Oxfordshire
• Jane Wallington – Mabel Prichard School
• Michele Harding (MH) – Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
• Rachel Reid (RR) – National Autistic Society
• Sarah Breton (SBre) – Joint Commissioner
Guests:
• John Harrington – Oxfordshire Employment Services
• Lucy – person with autism
• Rebecca Jacques – Oxfordshire Employment Services
• Stuart Young – PATH artist
Summary of Actions
EM
• Make additions to membership
• John Walton – Oxfordshire GP
• ORH paediatrician
• More clinicians – e.g. Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services
• Liaise with David Proudfoot to enable adult social care data-base (Swift) to record known diagnoses of autism in adults with learning disability
• Complete the Department of Health tool and submit to the learning Disability Public Health Observatory (iHaL)
EM
• To arrange for SA, SB, FT and AN to meet and discuss Family Support Worker outside the Partnership Board.
KE
• Organise building of specific web-pages for the Autism Partnership Board on the Autism Oxford web-site.
EM/ SH
• SH to make contact with autism accreditation scheme for presentation at next meeting.
• EM to include in agenda.
KE, JL and EM
• To plan next meeting with people with autism
Employment sub-group
• OES flyer and referral form to go on Autism Partnership Board’s webpages on Autism Oxford website.
Notes from last meeting
Corrections and comments - none offered.
PATH - building our autism strategy
Update on current workstreams
Employment
Oxfordshire Employment Services taking over from Right Employment as from 28th September to continue this two-year pilot working with 25 people with Asperger syndrome. The average age of the people being worked with is 25. Some people are aged 30+ and have only had a diagnosis in the last 12 months.
Autism Oxford will be providing training for OES support staff.
Of the people OES is working with:
• 7 have found employment
• 4 have started training
• 1 has gone back to university
British Association of Social Workers has done work on how much it costs to support disabled adults into work via supported employment = £4,800 per person.
OES receiving weekly referrals from Job CentrePlus.
National programme for working with people with challenging behaviour.
Action: Employment sub-group - OES flyer and referral form to go on Autism Partnership Board’s webpages on Autism Oxford website.
Training
• Training Needs Audit across Oxfordshire
JC is leading this audit which started in adult services but will now be extended to all-ages and include education
• Survey is in draft form and will then be available via Survey Monkey
• Autism Partnership Board members are asked to be pro-active in responding to the link
• Use Engagement Team
• Use organisation’s all user email system?
• Need to look at identifying a GP autism champion – ask John Walton for support and guidance. Also could contact through Local Medical Committee
• Send training flyer to schools – via Schools News?
Money
Family Support Worker. Agreed to discuss this outside the Partnership Board.
Action: EM to arrange for SA, SB, FT and AN to meet.
AN has offered to provide one-off funding for:
• Building specific web-pages for the Autism Partnership Board on the Autism Oxford web-site. Action: KE
• Providing funding to enable adult social care data-base (Swift) to record autism diagnosis where known. Action: EM to liaise with David Proudfoot
Department of Health Assessment Tool
Action: EM – complete the tool and submit to the learning Disability Public Health Observatory (iHaL)
Forward plan
• Existing priorities from steering group meetings
• Gemma Gray’s report on children and young people with learning disability and autism
• Autism accreditation scheme. Action: SH to make contact for presentation at next meeting. EM to include in agenda.
Next meeting
Thursday 12th April 2012
9.30 (for tea/ coffee), 10 start, 2.30pm finish
Ridgeway Partnership training rooms, Horspath Driftway, Oxford OX3 7JH
