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Is anyone here getting any help from NAS ?

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Does anyone here get actually get any help from NAS ?

My experience is you ask for help and they send you a bucketload of PDF'S of other organisations. Am I wrong to have expected more ?

The chief executive gets paid 140 grand a year, is it right that someone can live in luxury on that kind of salary from charitable donations ? Not even counting the other 20 people on stupid salaries comes to over 2 million quid ...no doubt plus expenses.

I thought charities existed to help others but obviously they are more interested in helping themselves.

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  • Scorpion0x17 said:
    A single centralised organisation, with local branches, can offer the same services much more consistently, and over a much wider area, than any number of well-meaning but isolated and independent smaller orgnisations.

    I can see your point, but the NAS is clearly not fit for purpose. The problem with a single centralised organisation is that it will become corrupt and moribund due to lack of competition and driven by the whims and prejudices of whoever is in charge.

    For example, the NAS does not support home education. If it wasn't for various other ASD support groups which do support HE then families who choose to HE will have nowhere to go.

    There have been instances where independent local support groups have been taken over by the NAS on the belief that they will benefit from the extra money and resources. The results have not always been positive as they have to comply with the policies of head office rather than offer services tailored to the needs of the users. One taken over group has practically ceased catering for adults; no longer supports home education; and has vastly reduced the number of opportunities where children can meet up together. All that takes place now are parents meeting up together to talk over coffee along with a few events that are really for the parents rather than the children. Another problem is that the majority of the users had Asperger syndrome but the NAS is more geared towards traditional autism.

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  • Scorpion0x17 said:
    A single centralised organisation, with local branches, can offer the same services much more consistently, and over a much wider area, than any number of well-meaning but isolated and independent smaller orgnisations.

    I can see your point, but the NAS is clearly not fit for purpose. The problem with a single centralised organisation is that it will become corrupt and moribund due to lack of competition and driven by the whims and prejudices of whoever is in charge.

    For example, the NAS does not support home education. If it wasn't for various other ASD support groups which do support HE then families who choose to HE will have nowhere to go.

    There have been instances where independent local support groups have been taken over by the NAS on the belief that they will benefit from the extra money and resources. The results have not always been positive as they have to comply with the policies of head office rather than offer services tailored to the needs of the users. One taken over group has practically ceased catering for adults; no longer supports home education; and has vastly reduced the number of opportunities where children can meet up together. All that takes place now are parents meeting up together to talk over coffee along with a few events that are really for the parents rather than the children. Another problem is that the majority of the users had Asperger syndrome but the NAS is more geared towards traditional autism.

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