The role and purpose of the Carers Voice Partnership Board, is to bring together Carers, commissioners, senior officers, service providers and elected councillors in a Norfolk & Waveney wide strategic forum, to provide system leadership on support to unpaid Carers, promoting independence and resilience, co-developing solutions to issues important to Carers and the people they care for.
The Aims and Objectives of the Partnership Board are to effect strategic change through system-wide leadership. To communicate strategically with general and targeted audiences to raise awareness, promote the welfare, voice and the needs of Carers. To ensure Carers are involved in the continuous cycle of development, design, monitoring and evaluation of services that affect them and the person they care for. To co-produce an All-Age Carers Strategy for Norfolk and Waveney in conjunction with Carers and Commissioners. To ensure that the principles of the All Age
Carers Strategy for Norfolk & Waveney are translated into realistic services that will address identified need.
The Partnership Board meet quarterly, however additional meetings will be called as necessary. The Chief Officer of Carers Voice Norfolk & Waveney organise and chair the meetings. Agenda topics from Carers are encouraged.
Members of the Partnership Board include the following organisations;
Commissioning Organisations
NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board
Norfolk County Council Adult Social Services
Norfolk County Council Children’s Social Services
Public Health
Carers Member Champion Norfolk County Council
Commissioning and Operational Leads for Carers (Adult and Children)
Loneliness & Social Isolation / Social Prescribing Commissioner
Commissioners for LD, Mental Health & Older People
Office of the Police & Crime Commissioner (Norfolk and Suffolk)
Healthwatch Norfolk
Healthwatch Suffolk Place Board Chairs Health & Wellbeing Partnership Chairs
District Councils
Breckland District Council
Broadland District Council
East Suffolk District Council (Waveney)
Great Yarmouth Borough Council
King’s Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council
North Norfolk District Council
Norwich City Council
South Norfolk District Council
Other Statutory Service Providers
Norfolk Fire & Rescue
Norfolk Police
NHS Provider Organisations
Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (Mental Health) (NSFT)
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital Trust (NNUH
James Paget University Hospital Trust (JPUH)
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Trust (QEH)
Norfolk Community Health & Care (NCH&C)
East Coast Community Healthcare (ECCH)
East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust
GP Alliances / Primary Care Networks e.g. One Norwich
Norfolk Local Pharmaceutical Committee
Voluntary, Community & Social Enterprise Sector
Carers Voice – Carers Ambassadors Carers Support Services – commissioned provider/s & non-commissioners providers
Family Voice Norfolk & Suffolk Parent Carer Network
Voluntary Norfolk, Community Action Norfolk & Lowestoft Rising (infrastructure organisations)
Specialist Contract Group – Information, Advice & Advocacy
Combatting Loneliness & Social Isolation services: Better Together Norfolk, CAN Connect and LILY
Social Prescribing Providers – e.g. Citizens Advice Bereau, DIAL, MIND
Sector Provider Forum Chairs e.g. LD, Mental Health & Older People
Voluntary and Community Sector Providers e.g. Age UK (Norfolk & Norwich), Equal Lives, Alzheimer’s, Independence Matters & Access Community Trust
