Our CEO Rachel Trueman attended the Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee (HOSC) in South Gloucestershire

The thoughts and views raised by our families have produced many important points for consideration and which the Local Authority found very helpful.

We have seen the launch of the six month Neurodiversity Transformation Project (NTP) profiling pilot. The pilot will train 42 schools and 8 nurseries across BNSSG (11 schools and two Early Years settings from South Glos)

Updates from the parent carer engagement events in July 2024 to share the latest developments.

Has your child accessed any short breaks provision such as: Brandon Trust, Special Friends Club, FACE, WECIL, Sense etc. over the last five years?

Updates from the parent carer engagement events in July 2024 to share the latest developments to the Neurodiversity Transformation Project.

The Neurodiversity Transformation Project was born out of changes across Health since last March 2023. The transformation project was created to co-ordinate this review and is led by the ICB and co-chaired by the three Parent Carer Forums (PCF) across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG).

Forty primary schools across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire will be part of a new Project called “Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools” or PINS for short, 13 of these schools are in South Gloucestershire.

At SGPC, we use your feedback to guide us. We want to hear what are your top 3 issues or concerns that we should make a priority to focus on

Using the information from last November's Discovery conference a data pack was shared with stakeholders to help support the discussions with a view to collectively create ideas to help solve the problems.

Members of our Parent Voice team joined with professionals from health services, schools and social care to explore neurodiversity services in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

As part of the first stage of the Neurodiversity Transformation Project, the Integrated Care Board (ICB) created a survey in order to further understand the current experiences and journey before and after assessment for parent carers, practitioners and professionals who are supporting children and young people with neurodivergent needs. This closed on 31st December 2023.