Lisa Woodruff Truscott is the Carer
lead for Surrey County Council’s Adult Social Care Transition Team. She is
working with the NAS Surrey Branch to set up a Parent Forum meeting (date TBC) to
hear your views and discuss how the Transition Team can improve communication
between Adult Social Care and families. She would like to hear from
parents and carers of young people aged 14 to 25 years, to find out what support
they are looking for, as well as their views on any past and current
experiences with services and support networks.
She would also like to hear from
those who are now more settled, or those still looking for the right support.
It would be helpful to hear both positive and negative experiences and from
anyone who can share their success stories.
Her job involves working closely
with families to provide information, advice and guidance around the transition
to adulthood, and the change of support from children’s services to Adult
services and social care support. The transition team currently works with
over 1000, and a large majority of the young people coming for help and support
to the service are on the autistic spectrum. It is the team’s aim to share
information about current services available, and to provide information to
families coming through adult social care to help ease the journey.
Date, time and venue are still to be confirmed, but if you would
interested in attending the meeting, please email Sara Truman at nas@mugsy.org for
more details, by 13th April and we will let you know as soon as details are
confirmed.
If you would prefer not to
participate in the forum, you can still send your feedback to Sara Truman at
the above email address. Please include a phone number if you would be
happy to talk to Lisa about your experiences. If you prefer to give your
feedback to Surrey County Council anonymously, make this clear in your email
and we will remove your email address and any identifying details before
passing on the feedback.
