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While we have made these important improvements, there is still much more to do to ensure that autistic people across the country have equal opportunities to the rest of society, access to the services they need to have good health and wellbeing and to participate fully in their communities. We will develop and test an autism public understanding and acceptance initiative, working with autistic people, their families and the voluntary sector. We want this initiative to help the public adapt their behaviour towards autistic people and recognise the diversity of the autistic community; that every autistic person is different. This includes improving understanding of the strengths and positives of being autistic, as well as the challenges people might face in their daily lives and how distressed behaviour can manifest itself. We will also ensure this covers the diversity of the autistic community, including the presentation of autism in women and girls, the LGBT community and autistic people from ethnic minority groups. carry out a new anti-bullying programme in schools, to improve the wellbeing of children and young people in schools, including those who are autistic

More broadly, we have worked with experts in SEND and organisations to develop a qualification for early years staff who want to specialise in SEND. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic we have broadened our funding for the voluntary sector to support parent and child mental health and wellbeing, to help early years providers identify special educational needs and catch up children who may be falling behind, including autistic children. Improving how the SEND system supports autistic children and young people Our short video gives you an overview of the ACT Awareness e-learning, the sort of content it covers and the style and format of the learning. And all in just over a minute. In addition, to prevent more autistic people from being avoidably admitted to inpatient care, we need a better understanding of the types of community support that meet autistic people’s needs before and during crisis. That is why, as part of the Building the Right Support Delivery Board, our Advisory Group of people with lived experience, the LGA and ADASS are leading work to review best practice models of community-based support for autistic people, people with a learning disability or both. The LGA and an NDTi-led partnership will also continue to roll out their Small Supports programme to an additional 8 Transforming Care Partnerships across the country. This programme involves working with and encouraging the establishment of small providers that promote people’s individual choice and control in the community. Improving the quality of inpatient care for autistic people and facilitating timely discharges from inpatient care Join the ACT for the Public listserv for generally collegial conversations about ACT. ACBS members are encouraged to join the ACT for Professionals listservbecause you can easily discuss ACT relevant issues there or get almost any question answered from the thousands of members who belong. The full list of ACT-relevant listservs can be accessed here. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child came into UK law in 1992. It is an international statement Children's rights. Standards in Scotland's Schools Act 2000review the results of our proposals to improve the treatment of autistic people under the Mental Health Act and issue our response in summer 2021 Improving autistic children and young people’s access to education, and supporting positive transitions into adulthood places duties on local authorities to identify, meet and keep under review the needs of pupils for whom they are responsible

Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how people perceive, communicate and interact with others, although it is important to recognise that there are differing opinions on this and not all autistic people see themselves as disabled. With an estimated 700,000 autistic adults and children in the UK – approximately 1% of the population – most people probably know someone who is autistic. In addition, there are an estimated 3 million family members and carers of autistic people in the UK ( National Autistic Society). This document is the government’s refreshed national strategy for improving the lives of autistic people and their families and carers in England. It builds on and replaces the preceding adult autism strategy, Think Autism, which was published in April 2014 and related to adults. It extends the scope of the strategy to children and young people for the first time, in recognition of the importance of ensuring that they are diagnosed and receive the right support as early as possible and across their lifetime. The strategy and its underpinning implementation plan are issued pursuant to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s powers under section 1 of the Autism Act 2009. To save this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Google Drive account. Hayes, S. C. (2004). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and the new behavior therapies: Mindfulness, acceptance and relationship. In S. C. Hayes, V. M. Follette, & M. Linehan (Eds.), Mindfulness and acceptance: Expanding the cognitive behavioral tradition (pp. 1-29). New York: Guilford.Over the last few years, we have seen many public sector services and organisations taking steps to become autism-inclusive, with many becoming autism-accredited or taking other steps to improve how they support autistic people. However, we know that many autistic people still feel excluded from public spaces and civil society because these can be overwhelming, busy or noisy and because staff or the public may react negatively to autistic people’s behaviour or support needs. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic autistic adults reported higher levels of loneliness than the general public. Evidence from the LSE research we commissioned into the impact of the pandemic has shown that autistic people may be at risk of further exclusion, due to the challenges many have faced with social distancing restrictions and changes to support networks. This has affected their confidence with getting out into their communities. The National Autistic Society Left Stranded report found that compared to the general public, autistic people were seven times more likely to be chronically lonely during June and July 2020.