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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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  • justice said:

    Thanks for getting back on this Arran, you illustrate how NAS controls this site and allows it as a sop to their members' voice.

    NAS is so tied up with the establishment ie local authorities pay for their schools, and universities/ colleges validate their programmes, there is such a lot of mutual beneficial back slapping,it would be difficult to unpick NAS. One thing is for sure that the purest and best charities are those that adhere to their original purpose and constitution and remain as independent from the state as possible.

    We could get nearer this model with the use of the latest social services policies to provide personal services for  the autistic, bought and chosen and controlled by the carer. I think charity has to start as it began, bottom up, and then each discrete local community can link up on a website etc, not the opposite as is happening with NAS, and the voluntary sector that bloomed into a bureaucratic, money making, campaigning monster under new labour.

    best wishes, have a nice day..   

    If the NAS is so controlling, why is it allowing this discussion to continue?

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  • justice said:

    Thanks for getting back on this Arran, you illustrate how NAS controls this site and allows it as a sop to their members' voice.

    NAS is so tied up with the establishment ie local authorities pay for their schools, and universities/ colleges validate their programmes, there is such a lot of mutual beneficial back slapping,it would be difficult to unpick NAS. One thing is for sure that the purest and best charities are those that adhere to their original purpose and constitution and remain as independent from the state as possible.

    We could get nearer this model with the use of the latest social services policies to provide personal services for  the autistic, bought and chosen and controlled by the carer. I think charity has to start as it began, bottom up, and then each discrete local community can link up on a website etc, not the opposite as is happening with NAS, and the voluntary sector that bloomed into a bureaucratic, money making, campaigning monster under new labour.

    best wishes, have a nice day..   

    If the NAS is so controlling, why is it allowing this discussion to continue?

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