The public consultation for the South Gloucestershire Suicide Prevention Strategy 2019-2021 is now open. The closing date for responses is the February 1st, 2019.
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Bristol Council Tax Consultation
The “Balancing Bristol’s Budget 2019-20” consultation was launched today. The consultation aims to gather views on options for the level of Council Tax from April 2019. The consultation is open until midnight on Monday 17 December.
Consultation: Bristol Transport Strategy
We all need to get from A to B. Transport plays a big part of all of our daily lives. The draft Bristol Transport Strategy sets out Bristol City Council’s vision and ambition for transport up to 2036.
Consultation: Advocacy and Healthwatch recommissioning (Bristol)
UPDATE 25/09/18: This important consultation was the main topic for the Bristol carers open meeting on 19 September.
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Further Consultation on Talking Therapies Services
Earlier in the year, we were contacted by Bristol North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) about their consultation on Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT).
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Have your say on how South Gloucestershire Council should prioritise its use of funds
Healthwatch South Gloucestershire acts as a consumer champion for both patients and the public.
Consultation: S. Glos Healthy Lifestyle & Wellbeing Services
South Gloucestershire Council is consulting on a proposed Healthy Lifestyle and Wellbeing service that supports people to improve their health by modifying the five leading risk factors that contribute to early death and reduced quality of life.
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Consultation: Targeted short breaks for children with disabilities
Bristol City Council has a statutory responsibility to provide a range of short breaks (previously known as respite).
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Consultation: Personal Health Budgets
A personal health budget is an amount of money to support someone’s health and wellbeing needs, which is planned and agreed between them and their local NHS team.
Consultation: Bristol City Centre Framework
Bristol City Council has drafted a City Centre Framework document for consultation. The Framework sets out aspirations for how people access and move around the city centre. It also covers new development and enhancing public spaces, with a focus on Bristol Shopping Quarter, Old City, Castle Park, North Redcliffe and the gateway into the city from the M32.
Pop-up exhibitions to raise awareness of the consultation are planned as follows:
- 20 April – St Nicholas Night Market, St Nicholas Market, Glass Arcade, Corn Street 2pm to 5pm
- 23 April – Citizen Service Point, 100 Temple Street 10am to 1pm
- 28 April – Junction 3 Library, Baptist Mills Court, Easton 3.30pm to 6.30pm
- 3 May – Central Library foyer, Deanery Road (TBC)
Learn more about the consultation here.
Consultation: Bristol Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Bristol City Council is consulting on its priorities for its Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND Strategy). This consultation closes on 25 May.
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Bristol Safeguarding Adults Board wants to hear from carers!
The Bristol Safeguarding Adults Board is currently writing the safeguarding adults strategic plan for 2018-2021.
This is an important strategy to feed your views into. There is an online survey which can be accessed by clicking here, it just takes a few minutes to fill out.
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Consultation: South Gloucestershire Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Strategy
The consultation on the draft Strategy for Children and Young People 0-25 years with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in South Gloucestershire 2018-2023 is now live.
All the consultation documents are available via this web page Web: http://bit.ly/2FdEqBe. The consultation closes at 5pm on Monday 12th March.
Consultation: Deadline for responding to Talking Therapies extended
As some of you will be aware, BNSSG (Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire) Clinical Commissioning Groups are re-designing and re-commissioning talking therapies services. This includes counselling, CBT and group therapy.
Have you accessed talking therapies? Has the person that you care for accessed them? Do you have any views that you would like to feed in?
The deadline for filling out the online survey has now been extended until 15th February.
You can fill this out by clicking here!
Consultation: Blue Badge Scheme
Government is proposing changing the eligibility criteria for the Blue Badge scheme to include people with non-physical conditions and to allow a range of healthcare professionals with specific expertise (other than the applicant’s GP) to undertake the assessments and to offer an automatic badge eligibility for people with non-physical disabilities who score 12 points under the PIP Activity – ‘Planning and Following Journeys’.
The deadline is 18 March. View more information including the online survey by clicking here.
Consultation: Over the Counter Items (NHS England)
NHS England is consulting on reducing prescribing of over-the-counter medicines. Feedback so far from patients and patient organisations has highlighted that considerations must be made for people with long-term conditions who require a large supply of over the counter medicine.
If you would like to respond to this consultation you can do so by Wednesday 14 March.
Consultation: South Gloucestershire Special Educational Needs Strategy
South Gloucestershire Council would like to hear carer views on the new draft SEND strategy for 2018-2023. Click here to read and learn more about strategy, feedback can also be submitted by clicking here.
The deadline for comments is Monday, March 12th.
Consultation: South Gloucestershire HomeChoice
The South Gloucestershire Council HomeChoice Rehousing policy sets out how the Council assesses applications for housing and the process for letting to social housing that the Council has nomination rights to.
The current policy contains three bandings. These bands are broad based and applicants within each banding have the same level of priority although their housing circumstances can be very different.
The deadline to feed into this consultation is the 26th March.
To give your feedback click here!
Consultation: Short Breaks for Parent Carers
Bristol City Council has a statutory responsibility to provide a range of short breaks (previously known as respite) to parent carers. This is set out in their Short Breaks Statement jointly developed with Bristol Parent Carers (BPC). The Targeted Short Breaks services contracts for children and young people up to age 18 all end on 31 March 2019. Targeted services are services that you don’t need a social worker assessment to access.
This survey will ask you about short breaks services and also about:
- Personal Assistants Service a service to help people find a personal assistant.
- Exploring widening eligibility for short breaks for children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD and children with Social, Emotional & Mental Health (SEMH). There is a section at the end where you can get further information on short breaks.
The deadline to respond is 17th January.
For more information, click here.
Consultation: South Gloucestershire Better Care Stronger Communities Funding Review
South Gloucestershire Council is reviewing the impact of the services delivered by: Shopmobility, The Armadillo Senior Cinema, MS Therapy Centre Exercise Groups and WE Care and Repair to decide whether to continue or cease funding these organisations. If you have used or benefited from any of these services or know carers that have, please respond to the survey by 5pm, Wednesday 20 December 2017. Click here to learn more.
