The North Yorkshire autism engagement surveyWho is this leaflet from?

This leaflet is from North Yorkshire County Council.

It tells you about the work we are doing to help autistic people and their families.

We want to make sure that autistic and their families can enjoy full, happy, healthy lives. What would we like you to do?

We would like you to read this leaflet.

Then we would like you to tell us what you think is important to autistic people and their families.

This will help us to make sure we do the right things to help autistic people and their families.What have we done to help autistic people?

In 2015 we wrote a plan about how we would help autistic people and their families.

Lots of people helped us write the plan.

The plan is called The Changing Landscape of Autism in North Yorkshire.Now we have written a report.

The reports says what we think plan has done to help autistic people and their families.

You can read the report on our website at www.nypartnerships.org.uk/autism. The report tells you about:

the important things we have done since 2015

the things we still need to do, or do better

our plans for 2020.

We are thinking about we must do to help autistic people and their families.

We want to do this over the next five years.

We are using the national autism plan to help us.

The national autism plan is called Think Autism.

Think Autism says there are 15 very important things that must be done.

They are called the 15 priority challenges for action.

They were chosen by autistic people, carers, and other people who work with autistic people.

The 15 priority challenges were put into three sections.

These are the three sections.

An equal part of my community

The right support at the right time during my lifetime

Developing my skills and independence and working to the best of my ability.

We have used the 15 challenges to help us write 15 statements.

The statements say what we want to do to help autistic people and their families.

These are our 15 statements. They are in three sections.

An equal part of my community

1.Autistic people are accepted in the community.

2.The views of autistic people are taken into account when decisions are made in local communities.

3.It is easy for autistic people to connect with other people with autism, including peer groups and family support groups.

4.Services know how to make reasonable adjustments to include autistic people. Staff are aware and accepting of autism.

5.Autistic people feel safe in the community. They do not experience discrimination, hate crime or abuse.

6.People respect and take into account the gender, sexual orientation and race in decisions about autistic people.

The right support at the right time during my lifetime

7.Autistic people receive timely diagnoses from professionals.

Relevant information and support is available during the diagnosis.

8.Autism is appropriately included in local strategic needs assessments

9.Staff in health and social care understand autism and how it affects people.

10.Families of autistic people can get help and support when they need it

11.Services and commissioners understand how autism affects people differently at different times of their lives.

This includes leaving school and getting older.

12.Health and social care professionals understand autism.

They know how to adapt the way they provide other supports that autistic people need.

13.The criminal justice system understands autism and knows how to support autistic people.

Developing my skills and independence and working to the best of my ability.

14.Autistic people have the same opportunities as everyone else to enhance skills and be as independent as possible.

15.There are supports for autistic people to get jobs and keep them.

What would we like you to do now?

We would like to know what you think about the work we have done for autistic people and their families.

We would like to know what you think about our 15 statements.

We would like to you to do this by filling in our survey.

We would also like you to tell us about yourself.We will use what you tell us to help us write our next autism plan.

When we have written it we will ask people to tell us what they think of it.

When we know people are happy with

it we will start to use it.

We will use it to help autistic people and their families. Thank you for reading this leaflet.