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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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  • I also filled in one of the Department of Health on-line forms to ask whether the Government was happy with the outcomes for the £500,000 spent on these autism awareness and training packages.

    I got a reply back 27th November from Ministerial Correspondence and Public Enquiries (I feel tempted to name the signatory).

    Ignoring my question completely he tells me about the Review of the Adult Autism Strategy, the end of November interim report on the investigative stage of the review which, if out, I cannot find.

    But at the end he does mention a report supposedly now out by John Simpson, a self-advocate on the Autism Progress Board "TO LOOK AT THE IMPACT OF THE ONLINE TRAINING MATERIALS THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FUNDED".

    But, apart maybe from NAS (who've just launched some courses you cannot find out about until you buy them), most of these aren't in the public sector, are restricted access, or in some cases were existing materials that were offered (in which case where did the money go?).  So the answer is likely to be NO IMPACT. Or a fairy story.

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  • I also filled in one of the Department of Health on-line forms to ask whether the Government was happy with the outcomes for the £500,000 spent on these autism awareness and training packages.

    I got a reply back 27th November from Ministerial Correspondence and Public Enquiries (I feel tempted to name the signatory).

    Ignoring my question completely he tells me about the Review of the Adult Autism Strategy, the end of November interim report on the investigative stage of the review which, if out, I cannot find.

    But at the end he does mention a report supposedly now out by John Simpson, a self-advocate on the Autism Progress Board "TO LOOK AT THE IMPACT OF THE ONLINE TRAINING MATERIALS THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FUNDED".

    But, apart maybe from NAS (who've just launched some courses you cannot find out about until you buy them), most of these aren't in the public sector, are restricted access, or in some cases were existing materials that were offered (in which case where did the money go?).  So the answer is likely to be NO IMPACT. Or a fairy story.

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