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barnet mental health trust no longer works with people with ASD

peterainbow

so after having to fight to get a proper assessment so that i could get targeted help, having got that barnet mental health trust have now chnaged it's rules and now no longer offers help to people on ASD

this seem like discrimination to me, i now have to go and get my GP to go and argue with the main NHStrust or something, so basically it won;t happen

i suffer from sever depression and anxiety and although my psychs help has been limited, he has at least made me feel that i'm not on my own, he told me today that he can no monger accept appointments to see me as i am ASD, he doesn't agree with this but this is what BMHT have told him...

surely this cannot be right, i now have nowhere to go...

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  • They are breaking the law if they do not provide you with an assessment or services for which you have been assessed as needing, because your diagnosis is ASD. If they put it in writing that this is the reason, they have committed disability discrimination. The Autism Strategy sets out what local authorities must do, under the Autism Act 2010. Here's the link to a useful page  on the NAS website, which sets out their responsibilities- I suggest you print it out and show it to your GP, then, if you are still denied, take it to the NAS Helpline and ask them to help you.

     

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  • They are breaking the law if they do not provide you with an assessment or services for which you have been assessed as needing, because your diagnosis is ASD. If they put it in writing that this is the reason, they have committed disability discrimination. The Autism Strategy sets out what local authorities must do, under the Autism Act 2010. Here's the link to a useful page  on the NAS website, which sets out their responsibilities- I suggest you print it out and show it to your GP, then, if you are still denied, take it to the NAS Helpline and ask them to help you.

     

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