Autism (Early Identification) Bill: Second Reading – Duncan Baker.
Mel Stride: ...holiday as far as I am concerned—perhaps that is an idea for a private Member’s Bill, or something similar. I am pleased that, since the last questions, we have published our review into autism employment, and I place on record my thanks to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for South Swindon (Sir Robert Buckland) who did such excellent work in bringing that useful report...
David Johnston: ...is a £13 million investment that will deploy specialists from both health and education workforces to train more than 1,600 mainstream primary schools to better meet the needs of children with autism and other neurodiverse needs. There is plenty more I can say, but I want to address some of the questions raised. As my right hon. Friend the Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock) said, we...
David Johnston: ...is a £13 million investment that will deploy specialists from both health and education workforces to train more than 1,600 mainstream primary schools to better meet the needs of children with autism and other neurodiverse needs. There is plenty more I can say, but I want to address some of the questions raised. As my right hon. Friend the Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock) said, we...
Maria Caulfield: ...in an inpatient mental health facility deserve to receive safe, high-quality care, and to be treated with dignity and respect. NHS England has established a Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Inpatient Quality Transformation Programme. This programme is working to support cultural change and a new model of care for the future, across all NHS-funded mental health, learning...
Autism (Mainstream Schooling)
Mabon ap Gwynfor: Trefnydd, I'd like an updated oral statement, please, on autism diagnosis. Referral to assessment and diagnostic services is made through several routes. For pre-school children, it can be done via the health service, or, for children attending school, it's done via the school-age assessment pathway. Therefore, it would be good to see a statement with input from both Ministers. Now, I have...
Priti Patel: ...NHS health checks. We need to do much more on health checks, particularly cancer checks. I will not repeat the numbers on the elderly population, but the population with learning disabilities and autism is also increasing. It is expected to grow by 3% by 2025—just next year—and the population of working-age adults with sensory impairments will grow by 5%. The council is spending around...
Catherine West: ...waiting years or even decades for suitable social housing. Last summer, one constituent told me she lives in an emergency one-bedroom studio with her 16-year-old teenager and six-year-old severely autistic son. As well as the cramped conditions, she told me, “the roof has collapsed, and our bulbs keep going out as there is some electrical fault here, the fridge doesn’t work, I keep...
Claire Sugden: ...social care in particular, do not serve them. We need to improve in areas such as mental health, reproductive health, family planning and menopause. We also need to understand conditions such as autism and ADHD, which present differently in women and girls. Research has, typically, focused on men and boys, so symptoms in women and girls are not necessarily picked up. I expect that there...
Autism: Initial Teacher Training
David Johnston: ...specialist workforce across education, health and care. To support this, the department has completed the following:Since May 2022, the department has supported 135,000 professionals to access autism awareness training developed by the Autism Education Trust through the £12 million Universal services training programme.In January 2024, the department announced a new initial teacher...
Baroness Browning: To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to address barriers to discharge from mental health inpatient units for autistic people and people with learning disabilities related to the provision of (1) suitable housing, and (2) social care support.
Robert Buckland: Last week saw the launch of the independent report that I, together with the Department for Work and Pensions and the leading research charity Autistica, prepared as result of a 10-month review into autism and employment. There is still a huge gap in the number of people in work, with fewer than three in 10 adults who are autistic working, which is way below the disability average. I am...
Baroness Browning: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the dynamic support register and Care (Education) and Treatment Review policy for autistic people without a learning difficulty in (1) preventing hospital admissions, and (2) speeding up hospital discharges.
...people, and I am grateful to Karen Adam for raising the issue. Again, she has a track record of raising such issues in the chamber. We are consulting on the proposed learning disabilities, autism and neurodivergence bill, which will aim to ensure that the rights of neurodivergent people, including autistic people and people with learning disabilities, are respected, protected...
Ruth Maguire: ...I are on the Education, Children and Young People Committee, and she will understand—as I do—that behaviour is communication. What would a zero-tolerance approach look like to a dysregulated autistic pupil who was lashing out and hurting somebody? How would a zero-tolerance approach deal with that?
Lord Markham: There is, quite rightly, a balance to be struck. For people with learning difficulties and autism, which noble Lords have debated before, we set a 50% target for that reduction—not 100% because, as has been mentioned, it is not always appropriate as a number of people in those situations need additional support. However, as a general sense of direction I think we all agree that, where we...
Derek Twigg: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children in the Borough of Halton are waiting for (a) autism and (b) ADHD assessments; and what the average waiting times are for such assessments.
Lord Jackson of Peterborough: ...facilities and prisons. Just to recap, Tourette’s syndrome is an inherited neurological condition. It is not rare and affects one schoolchild in every 100. This is a similar prevalence to autistic spectrum disorder and paediatric epilepsy. However, unlike with the latter, there are no NICE guidelines in place for its care. Over 300,000 children and adults are living with TS in the UK...