Named and Shamed Merton Local Authority

Merton local authority have done practically nothing to comply with the Autism Act, there is still no team of people or a named manager responsible for the commissioning of services to adults with autism.

They have just done one or two very very very minor things to make out they are in the process of complying with the law.

They force you to go through the wrong channel - eg learning disability/mental health and obviously the people here are not trained and have no experience or qualifications in assessing the needs of those with austism so how can they make a correct assessment ? Their wrong assessment is just a way to fob you off and wriggle out of the responsiblities placed upon them by law.

Now they have not even responded to my complaints after 26 days so I have contacted the local government ombudsman.

No doubt they are going to come up with another brick wall, am guessing that they will say I need to challenge them through the law, obviously I have no money for that and we all know that obviously NAS conveniently doesn't bite the hand that feeds them.

"Unfortunately, the NAS does not have its own in-house legal department and cannot give specific legal information and/or advice to service users or members of the public." -really !!!

If anything this would be the most important, number one priority to anyone with autism who is having trouble getting anywhere with their local authority.