Autistic girl dragged from home for unknown Food Sensitivities

JuniperFromGallifrey said:

Please be mindful when talking with "health" professionals who might not have bothered to stay up on the medical science around the different biology linked with Autism.

I think a bit of common sense is needed here - those professionals often have a workload far in excess of most of us and are making life affecting decisions on an hourly basis.

To expect them to keep up to date on just one small area around a condition affecting a small minority of people (approx 2% of people are autistic and only some will have the issues here) is more than a little unreasonable.

What would be useful is if an organisation like NAS could advocate to the NHS to have neurodivergent training created for the NHS and for groups where we attend to have a minumum number of people trained on this with an annual refresher.

JuniperFromGallifrey said:

I am trying to appeal to universities and charities. We need the NHS FULLY updated on the bio-science of Autism

Could you share what hard proof the research in this area has produced please? It would be useful to see the peer-reviewed articles that will be taken seriously by the medical community. Most of what I have read so far has only resulted in indications or is not peer reviewed so I would like to update my own knowledge.

I only recently discovered that training is already mandated. The Health and Care Act 2022 specifically mentions autism in Section 181 (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/31/section/181). I have no doubt that the inclusion of this in the Act is due in part to the work of NAS and other campaigning parties. How it's implemented is key, of course, but I believe training resources are pretty readily available.

...and the latest position is given on this Health Education England web page: www.hee.nhs.uk/.../oliver-mcgowan-mandatory-training-learning-disability-autism

...and the latest position is given on this Health Education England web page: www.hee.nhs.uk/.../oliver-mcgowan-mandatory-training-learning-disability-autism

I think that autism specific training is still relatively speaking in its infancy. I don't doubt that its early form will be far from perfect, but it seems like a good start, and something which can be built on.

In terms of osteopaths and the like... There seems to be a sane approach which recognises that not everyone needs to have the same. I guess osteopaths maybe should have the first tier. They should most definitely have some. Perhaps he should ask for it, saying that it's a requirement of the Health and Care Act 2022. That should set the cat among the pigeons!

This looks good - a starting point at least although it seems fairly high level.

If this can be expanded over time to include more of the biologu the JuniperFromGallifrey talks about then it will have a meaningful impact in cases such as the one at the start of this thread.

I have a friend who is a osteopath part time in the NHS and he says he has never been asked to take this training so it may not be appled to all areas or not mandatory for everyone.

I'll have a good trawl through the research JuniperFromGallifrey has posted - thanks for that.