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Health and Social Care Group meetings 2025-2026

  • January 13th 2025: A Learning Disabilities and Vulnerabilities Specialist from the Ambulance Service came to talk to the group about her role. The group also reviewed the first version of the Jargon Busters Learning Disabilities Partnership Board film.
    Click here for meeting summary.
  • January 20th 2025: Members of the Health and Social Care Group are often asked to sit on community interview panels for different council roles. During this session the group produced a question bank to use in different interviews. A question bank is a list of questions for different roles.
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  • January 27th 2025: A Project Manager is coming to the Jargon Busters Co-production Group to introduce their new project.
    More details can be found here.
  • February 3rd 2025: A Professional Lead Nurse and a Together and Carer Lead from DPT came to talk to the group about the Trust’s new Together Strategy.
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  • February 17th 2025: A Community Services Manager and a Practice Lead are coming back to the group to give an update on their workflow project.
     Please see the notes from the November 11th LDPB pre-meet.
  • March 3rd 2025: A Professional Lead Nurse and a Together and Carer Lead from DPT came back to the group to give an update on how views shared will help form the Trust’s new Together Strategy.
    Click here for the meeting summary.
  • March 17th 2025: Two members of the Arranging Support Team came to the group. They wanted to find out whether information about Direct Payments on the council website was easy to understand and use or not.
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  • March 24th 2025: A Learning Disabilities and Vulnerabilities Specialist from the ambulance service came back to the group. This was so she could show everyone how their ideas and experiences helped shape the new strategy she had drafted.
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  • April 7th 2025: A council Scrutiny Officer came to talk to the group about voting in the local May elections. He explained how a local election differs from a general election. He also talked through reasonable adjustments people can ask for to help them vote.
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  • April 28th 2025: A Teaching and Learning Manager and a Curriculum Officer from Learn Devon came to speak to the group. We discussed how courses are promoted (how people learn about them) and suggested ideas for future courses.
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  • May 19th 2025:  A Senior Policy and Executive Support Officer came to the group to ask them to quality check some draft easy read council policy descriptions.
    Click here for the meeting summary.
  • June 9th 2025: The council’s Lead Best Interest Assessor is coming to the group to share a new easy read explaining Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. These are known as DoLS for short.
  • June 30th 2025: A Professional Lead Nurse and a Together and Carer Lead from DPT will come back to the group to share the Trust’s final version of the Together Strategy.
  • July 7th 2025: The council’s Assistant Director for Disabilities will come to the group to learn what is important to them for the council to work on.
  • July 14th 2025: A Senior Manager from DPT will come to the group to ask for feedback on the Trust’s Clinical Strategy.
  • July 28th 2025: A Professional Lead Nurse from DPT will come to share the Trust’s current Friends and Family Test with the group. She would like to know if the form needs updating.
  • Please contact adultsc.learningdisabilitypartnershipboard-mailbox@devon.gov.uk for more information.
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