New Statutory body as an alternative to the NHS for mental health and hidden disability

And one more thing to add before I bail out to walk my dogs.

The centres should fundamentally be tasked not just to help the person that comes there negotiate the problems they encounter.  They should address the systemic problems they encounter that cause them....

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This is the very reason why urgent amendments to the Autism Act 2009 must be made, with far greater enforcement powers (in a similar way to the health and safety laws) and with massively increased provision for police investigations and criminal prosecutions of senior management who are found not implementing the provisions correctly - only when we as autistic people have ever more draconian laws to protect our rights will we ever get anywhere - there is no point in having laws unless they are properly enforced and there also needs to be greater monitoring and supervision of senior management specially provided for in any amendments to the Autism Act 2009 

If we're looking at evidence as to whether training actually makes a difference with behaviour then take the simple one of how people drive.  I've just come back from dropping my wife of at an airport.  For a lot of people (especially it seems to me with the big flashy cars) speed limits and indicators are optional.  And then there's the I'm staying in the outside lanes because there's a long queue to overtake and if I pull in then someone will overtake me mentality.

A friend of mine once suggested that the best way to improve road safety is not an airbag but a dagger built into the steering wheel facing the drivers chest.  Too radical perhaps but nonetheless the principle of those who are the most dangerous to society facing the greatest risk would perhaps moderate their behaviour - or by nature of Darwinian evolution mean that their genes are less likely to be passed on...

I'm all for existing laws being enforced and ammended when needed, but I'm not sure that we'd really get anywhere by punishing people into supporting our, or anyone elses rights.

I wonder if one of the problems is the way that training and awareness courses are run and who they're run by? Whilst I've not been on any courses specifically about autism, I've been to plenty of other courses and they often seem to run to the same script with a slight change in wording according to the organisation they're being run for and the groups or issue being talked about. Sitting in a conference hall, or meeting room, being given a jargon heavy lecture, with stuff up on a screen, handouts and maybe a little discussion at the end, is no where near enough, especially when theres a person in the room with lived experience, maybe a child or relative experiencing the subject of the training, who tends to get ignored or sidelined, rather than engaged with.

Are senior management the ones who actually recieve the training? Because to me the're the ones who need it as they're the ones holding the purse strings. Training also needs to go down to the employees on "the shop floor" too, if everyone knows how they should behave then its much easier to call out bad behaviour

I'm all for existing laws being enforced and ammended when needed, but I'm not sure that we'd really get anywhere by punishing people into supporting our, or anyone elses rights.

I wonder if one of the problems is the way that training and awareness courses are run and who they're run by? Whilst I've not been on any courses specifically about autism, I've been to plenty of other courses and they often seem to run to the same script with a slight change in wording according to the organisation they're being run for and the groups or issue being talked about. Sitting in a conference hall, or meeting room, being given a jargon heavy lecture, with stuff up on a screen, handouts and maybe a little discussion at the end, is no where near enough, especially when theres a person in the room with lived experience, maybe a child or relative experiencing the subject of the training, who tends to get ignored or sidelined, rather than engaged with.

Are senior management the ones who actually recieve the training? Because to me the're the ones who need it as they're the ones holding the purse strings. Training also needs to go down to the employees on "the shop floor" too, if everyone knows how they should behave then its much easier to call out bad behaviour

If we're looking at evidence as to whether training actually makes a difference with behaviour then take the simple one of how people drive.  I've just come back from dropping my wife of at an airport.  For a lot of people (especially it seems to me with the big flashy cars) speed limits and indicators are optional.  And then there's the I'm staying in the outside lanes because there's a long queue to overtake and if I pull in then someone will overtake me mentality.

A friend of mine once suggested that the best way to improve road safety is not an airbag but a dagger built into the steering wheel facing the drivers chest.  Too radical perhaps but nonetheless the principle of those who are the most dangerous to society facing the greatest risk would perhaps moderate their behaviour - or by nature of Darwinian evolution mean that their genes are less likely to be passed on...