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Named and Shamed Merton Local Authority

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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.

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  • So my question is, (aimed at the NAS, government and anyone else who wants to answer), why is there this fear of upsetting LAs?  Why does there need to be this softly, softly approach, that appears to be (from what Longman has said), asking for more than we hope to get so that we will at least get something?  Or judging what we have a right to expect as if it's superfluous?

    This is not good enough.  Why does there need to be such a fragile approach to this?  If someone only paid 5% of their council tax, the authorities wouldn't say "oh well, we know we asked for 100% but at least we got 5% so that'll do" would they.

    They cannot dilute this by absorbing it into an organisation in a way that it gets lost by many individuals passing the buck or ignoring it.

    The law is the law.  Being part of the establishment does NOT absolve any body of the requirement to uphold and abide by the law!

    And the government cannot treat public bodies as if they are not breaking the law the same as any one person would be treated.

    The government needs to start giving out harsh sanctions to those LAs that don't comply in full.  There is NO excuse!

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  • So my question is, (aimed at the NAS, government and anyone else who wants to answer), why is there this fear of upsetting LAs?  Why does there need to be this softly, softly approach, that appears to be (from what Longman has said), asking for more than we hope to get so that we will at least get something?  Or judging what we have a right to expect as if it's superfluous?

    This is not good enough.  Why does there need to be such a fragile approach to this?  If someone only paid 5% of their council tax, the authorities wouldn't say "oh well, we know we asked for 100% but at least we got 5% so that'll do" would they.

    They cannot dilute this by absorbing it into an organisation in a way that it gets lost by many individuals passing the buck or ignoring it.

    The law is the law.  Being part of the establishment does NOT absolve any body of the requirement to uphold and abide by the law!

    And the government cannot treat public bodies as if they are not breaking the law the same as any one person would be treated.

    The government needs to start giving out harsh sanctions to those LAs that don't comply in full.  There is NO excuse!

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