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Autism Awareness - funded research

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The Government has provided £0.5 million to 8 research initiatives to advance autism awareness.

Seven of the 8 (according to the NAS website under:the autism strategy an overview - autism awareness and training - government commissioned autism awareness training) have produced outcomes of various kinds.

The eighth is NAS which just gives a link back to the page explaining the autism strategy.

NAS is the one heading up the PUSH FOR ACTION campaign. What was the NAS funded research outcome, and why is there nothing set against the NAS contribution in that part of the website?

The Royal College of Psychiatrists and British Psychology Society seem to have produced E-learning packs which as yet I haven't found a way into to find out what they say - I probably have to buy one to see what its about.

Oxford University interviewed 37 people on the spectrum and other groups of parents, siblings and grandparents. Not altogether clear what they found out. Skills for Health/Skills for Care carried out widespread consultation, whatever that means in practice? But they all have something allegedly productive to say, except NAS.

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  • When the Department of Health announced this £0.5m funding in December 2011 it was to generate a series on on-line training resources and booklets to increase awareness and understanding of autism across all public services. Each of the 8 recipients was to address a different aspect.

    So what we should have is a publicly accessible resource that majorly enhances the understanding of autism in every public service.

    What we've actually got are restricted access packages (members only or only if you pay up front), about which the public can find out little if anything. And some organisations used material they had already produced.

    It looks like the money has been frittered away. Certainly if it was an equal division, every recipient organisation got over £60,000 to spend on this. Going by what Paull says that barely covers the NAS chief executive's salary rise for the last two years!

    So maybe £60,000 wasn't enough to produce anything useful. But I'd sure like to see evidence of at least something coming out of each organisation.

    I've asked the Department of Health what happened to this initiative. Don't suppose I'll get an answer.

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  • When the Department of Health announced this £0.5m funding in December 2011 it was to generate a series on on-line training resources and booklets to increase awareness and understanding of autism across all public services. Each of the 8 recipients was to address a different aspect.

    So what we should have is a publicly accessible resource that majorly enhances the understanding of autism in every public service.

    What we've actually got are restricted access packages (members only or only if you pay up front), about which the public can find out little if anything. And some organisations used material they had already produced.

    It looks like the money has been frittered away. Certainly if it was an equal division, every recipient organisation got over £60,000 to spend on this. Going by what Paull says that barely covers the NAS chief executive's salary rise for the last two years!

    So maybe £60,000 wasn't enough to produce anything useful. But I'd sure like to see evidence of at least something coming out of each organisation.

    I've asked the Department of Health what happened to this initiative. Don't suppose I'll get an answer.

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