Rotherham’s All Age Autism Strategy 2020 - 2023

ADASS

Association of Directors of Adult Social Services

ADASS is the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in England. They are a charity which aims to further the interests of people in need of social care by promoting high standards of social care services and influencing the development of social care legislation and policy.
 

ASC

Autistic Spectrum Conditions

Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) is the name for a range of similar conditions, including Asperger syndrome, that affect a person’s social interaction, communication, interests and behaviour.
 

CAMHS

Child And Adolescent Mental Health Services

CAMHS is used as a term for all services that work with children and young people who have difficulties with their emotional or behavioural wellbeing.
 

EIA

Equality Impact Assessments

An equality impact assessment is a process designed to ensure that a policy, project or scheme does not discriminate against any disadvantaged or vulnerable people – this includes autistic people.
 

Rotherham HWB

Rotherham Health and Wellbeing Board 

Rotherham HWB is the single strategic forum to ensure coordinated commissioning and delivery across the NHS, social care, public health and other services directly related to health and wellbeing. The HWB also sets the strategic direction for the Integrated Health and Social Care Partnership Place Board, which was set up to drive integration and deliver transformation across health and social care. The HWB has a comprehensive outcomes framework and receives quarterly performance reports on the place plan to assure progress. Partners provide constructive challenge and are keen to collaborate across organisational boundaries for the benefit of people in Rotherham.
 

Rotherham’s Integrated Health and Social Care Place Plan

This plan aligns to the new Rotherham Health and Wellbeing Strategy.  The Plan is intended to work as a catalyst to deliver sustainable, effective and efficient health and care support and community services with significant improvements underpinned by collaborative working through the development of the Rotherham Integrated Care Partnership (ICP). Partners are fully committed to working together to make decisions on a best-for-Rotherham basis to achieve the transformations set out in this plan.
 

Life Course Approach

A life-course approach to health is based on the understanding that multiple factors, which include biological, social, psychological, geographic, and economic, shape health over the life course. This approach aims to increase the effectiveness of interventions throughout a person’s life, focusing on a healthy start to life then targeting the needs of people at critical periods throughout their lifetime such as adolescence, moving into work, pregnancy, retirement, bereavement and end of life.

NAS

National Autistic Society

The NAS Rotherham Branch launched in October 2008 and is run on a voluntary basis by people affected by autism spectrum conditions (ASCs). See:  https://www.facebook.com/NASRotherhamBranch/

Neurodevelopmental Pathway

Neurodevelopmental Pathway is a specialist service responsible for the assessment of neurodevelopmental conditions such as Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

NICE

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides national guidance and advice to improve health and social care.

Pathways to Progression

Supporting 15- to 19-year-olds not in education employment or training (NEET) to engage in learning or employment.

Pathways to Success

A needs-led, community-based programme which focuses on supporting adults with health issues from marginalised communities, not mandated for the Work Programme or inactive in the labour market to develop basic skills and move towards or into employment.

The Sheffield City Region Combined Authority

The Sheffield City Region Combined Authority (formally the Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield Combined Authority) is the combined authority for South Yorkshire in England, with powers over transport, economic development and regeneration.

RDASH

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust

Specialises in delivering the following: Adult and Older Adults Inpatient and Community Mental Health; Children and Adolescent Mental Health; Learning Disabilities; Substance Misuse; Psychological Therapies, Forensic and Community Services.

Rotherham Business Growth Board’s employment and skills sub-group

This is a sub-group of the Rotherham Business Growth Board which oversees the Rotherham Employment and Skills Strategy.

Sensory Integration Support

Sensory integration is about how our brain receives and processes sensory information so that we can do the things we need to do in our everyday life. There is a theory of sensory integration and a therapeutic approach based on the theory.