Big drop in autism-specific training for staff carrying out Care Act assessments

This is terrible! Anyone who works in health or social care should have appropriate training before they carry out assessments!!!

This is terrible! Anyone who works in health or social care should have appropriate training before they carry out assessments!!!

Hi Kitsun

It's appalling. Sorry l was so flippant in my earlier response.

Since I originally posted I have spoken to many individuals and worker from CAHMS and then found out that they're not qualified even to do an assessment.

If someone has trained as a social worker and has a sociology degree and has done a week's course or even a month course on ASD it doesn't qualify them.

Currently there are no ASD autism specific psychology degrees l can find.

there's not enough government investment in any area of autism services and so therefore there's a huge gap.

I have found in conversations with sencos and some teachers that they don't understand aspergers and they don't understand how the system overloads certain children. 

I'm going to see a local MP very soon regarding this.

I do think the national Autistic society should be stating on the website that parents especially should be checking qualifications of all people that work with their diagnosed child or undiagnosed child.

Hope you're well.x