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News And Updates

Employer Support for Autistic People

Today's news includes the DWP setting out 19 recommendations to help support autistic people in workplaces (28th February 2024) The stats...

Festive Greetings from Autistic UK

The Night Before Christmas Text By Clement C Moore Illustrated By Arthur Rackham Narrated By Autistic UK Volunteer Reynard Ambrosius...

Autistic UK Community

Welcome to our Community

A diverse group, we are working to get the needs of autistic people heard, considered and met. We aim to make autistic life easier in...

Engagement

ONLINE FOCUS GROUP PILOT SCHEME

Due to our face-to-face groups being on pause, we’re piloting online focus groups so you can have your say. Our first groups are about...

Representation

LETTER TO KIRSTY WILLIAMS MS REGARDING THE GUIDANCE FOR SCHOOLS RETURNING DURING THE PANDEMIC

We wrote to Kirsty Williams MS on 16th June 2020 with the concerns of our stakeholders regarding the lack of documented guidance for...

RESPONSE FROM KIRSTY WILLIAMS

This evening (8th July 2020) we received a response from Kirsty Williams to our letter dated 16th June 2020 regarding the lack of...

HUB PROVISION FOR STATEMENTED CHILDREN – SURVEY ANALYSIS

Following the response from Kirsty Williams regarding the documented guidance for supporting pupils with Additional Learning Needs and/or...

Training

AN INITIAL SURVEY TO ASCERTAIN THE EXPECTATIONS AND NEEDS OF THE AUTISTIC COMMUNITY

Following the announcement made on 1st August 2020 regarding the long awaited outcome of campaigning to ensure consistent and adequate...

Research

Autistic mothers’ experiences of breast- and formula- feeding babies: what does the evidence say?

Authors: Aimee Grant and Kat Williams Image credit: pexels-mehmet-turgut-kirkgoz-4725001 If you search online for Autism and...

Research Share Request ‘I AM NOT A CAT’ experiences of humour and wellbeing

We have been asked to share the following information regarding a postgraduate research project: A brief project summary Hans Asperger...

Systems Advocacy

Advocacy and Autistic UK CIC

It’s national advocacy week, so we thought it was an ideal opportunity for us to talk about what advocacy means to Autistic UK, and how...

Co-production

Autism Code of Practice - Podcast with the National Autism Team

There are now episodes of our joint podcast available via the National Autism Team website! Willow and Cadno Coch have been talking to...