{"id":10307,"date":"2025-11-14T10:06:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/?page_id=10307"},"modified":"2025-11-14T10:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:06:52","slug":"joint-engagement-forum-jef-summary-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/adult-social-care-and-health-engagement\/joint-engagement-forum-jef-2\/joint-engagement-forum-jef-summary-november-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Engagement Forum (JEF) Summary November 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Joint Engagement Forum \u2013 4 November 2025 Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The forum focused on collaboration across adult social care and health, reviewing completed actions from July and sharing updates on key initiatives. Highlights included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Learning Disability Outreach Team<\/strong>: Provides short-term intensive support for adults at risk of inpatient admission, with emphasis on accessibility and cultural awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winter Vaccination Programme<\/strong>: Updates on eligibility for COVID, flu, and RSV vaccines, plus outreach efforts for individuals with sensory sensitivities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Adult Social Care Call Handling<\/strong>: Significant improvements in wait times and accessibility, with ongoing work to support neurodivergent and non-verbal callers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Community Engagement<\/strong>: Updates on co-production projects, safeguarding resources, and initiatives promoting inclusivity and diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rebranding Announcement<\/strong>: Disability Together (formally Living Options Devon) unveiled its new name and website to better reflect user-led values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Carer and Autism Ambassador Updates<\/strong>: Progress on support groups, ambassador activities, and autism-friendly practices in health services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learning Disability Partnership Board<\/strong>: Work on accessibility, reasonable adjustments, and easy-read resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friendship Groups and Co-production<\/strong>: Continued success of community-based groups and awareness sessions for professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CQC Inspection Feedback<\/strong>: Positive initial findings on engagement and co-production, with a formal report expected in early 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next forum will take place on <strong>27 January 2026<\/strong>, featuring a Q&amp;A with senior leaders. Attendees are invited to submit questions in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joint Engagement Forum \u2013 4 November 2025 Summary The forum focused on collaboration across adult social care and health, reviewing completed actions from July and sharing updates on key initiatives. Highlights included: New Learning Disability Outreach Team: Provides short-term intensive support for adults at risk of inpatient admission, with emphasis on accessibility and cultural awareness. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1186,"featured_media":0,"parent":7687,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-10307","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-31 14:46:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10309,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10307\/revisions\/10309"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}