Neuroinclusive Jersey Strategy 2025-2028

​​Request ​785251376

Under the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011, I request access to the following information regarding the development of the Neuroinclusive Jersey Strategy 2025-2028:

1. Scope Determination: All records, including meeting minutes, briefing notes, and internal emails, where the decision was made to define the "core conditions" of the strategy. Specifically, I request any documentation that discusses the inclusion or exclusion of Learning Disability (UK) / Intellectual Disability.

2. Stakeholder Correspondence: All correspondence (emails, letters, or memos) between the Government of Jersey (Health and Social Services) and Autism Jersey and other stakeholders including the Improvement and Innovation team or the LDAD Cluster regarding the naming, branding, and categorical scope of the strategy.

3. Equality Impact Assessment: A copy of the Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) or any "Inclusion Audit" performed during the drafting of this strategy to ensure it did not discriminate against islanders with high-support neurodevelopmental conditions like Learning Disability.

4. Rationale for Omission: If no specific meeting minutes exist regarding the exclusion of Learning Disability, please provide the formal departmental rationale for why a "Neuroinclusive" strategy excludes a significant portion of the neurodivergent population.

5. The total cost associated with the development of the Strategy both in terms of developing it, and presenting it, such as the event at the Museum. This should include the cost of Government staff and their time.

Response

1 and 2

Records held have been reviewed for documents and correspondence identified as meeting the request criteria. Information in scope of this request has been prepared for disclosure and redacted in consideration of Freedom of Information legislation; redactions have been colour coded for ease of reference.

Yellow Personal Information of individuals – Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011

Blue Information supplied in confidence – Article 26 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011

Information that is outside of the scope of this request has been redacted in grey.

The agreed (signed) meeting minutes in scope are linked below:

[LINK 20240510 Steering Group Minutes]​

[LINK 20240607 Steering Group Minutes]

[LINK 20240704 Steering Group Minutes]​

[LINK 20240802 Steering Group Minutes]​

In-scope correspondence is attached below. Duplicated attachments are removed, with final agreed and formatted versions preferred for inclusion over drafts.

[LINK correspondence]​

3

No Equality Impact Assessment was completed for the Strategy.

In September 2025, in response to WQ-322-2025.pdf, it was confirmed in the States Assembly that:

• ​There is no equivalent in Jersey Law to the U.K. Equality Act which provides for a Public Sector Equality Duty (which can be evidenced by the production of an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA), though there is no statutory requirement in the U.K. Equality Act to produce an EIA).
• Government departments must instead consider the provisions of Jersey’s discrimination legislation when developing policies, strategies and projects.

The impact was considered, as evidenced in the Steering Group meeting minutes provided, but did not complete any additional documentation.

4

Not applicable.

5

There is no dedicated cost centre or business unit for the Neuroinclusive Strategy to which costs incurred in developing or presenting the Strategy could be charged.

Staff time is not recorded against or billed to particular projects, and therefore, no salary costs can be attributed to such work.

Costs were absorbed across the Mental Health and the Improvement and Innovation directorate budgets, and Strategy-specific expenditure cannot be discerned from the records held.

Documented costs are:

• Printing: £481
• Venue hire / event costs: £1,123

Articles applied

Article 25 Personal information 

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005. 

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if – 

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and 

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law. 

Article 26 Information supplied in confidence 

Information is absolutely exempt information if – 

(a) it was obtained by the scheduled public authority from another person (including another public authority); and 

(b) the disclosure of the information to the public by the scheduled public authority holding it would constitute a breach of confidence actionable by that or any other person.