The Autism schools Project is being rolled out across the country over 2021/22 period. This project was one of the Children and Young People Accelerator Projects run in North Cumbria and the North East and is now going out to the rest of the country.
The Infographic accompanying the project, which highlights how parent carer forums can be involved, can be viewed here.
The full project report can be viewed here.
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[…] If the schools’ system focuses crudely on attendance, the wrong solutions will be pursued and punitive measures used to coerce families to make their children attend school when they are not ready, not properly supported, enrolled in an appropriate setting or in some cases not even assigned to any school. The report has its sights only on school attendance, not the very validreasons why many children are not attending school and the steps necessary to support schools and families in getting a child into school – for example a whole school approach or the strategies adopted by the autism in schools project […]