Working in Coalition

APPGA

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Autism (APPGA) is one of the largest all-party groups in Parliament. It is made up of backbench MPs and Peers (members of the House of Lords) who have an interest in autism and want to lobby the Government to improve autism services. For more information about the APPGA, and to find out if your MP is a member, see the APPGA webpage.

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism launched its Manifesto (pdf 195KB) in May 2003. It is a 10-year programme to which MPs are asked to sign up; a series of measures by which successive governments can be held to account. It contains targets in a range of policy and service areas, and MPs who sign up to the Manifesto are committed to working to achieve these objectives. At the last count, over 300 MPs and Peers (members of the House of Lords) had signed up to the Manifesto.

For more information, see articles in the Autumn 2003 (pdf 661KB) and Spring 2004 (pdf 668KB) Policy and Campaigns Newsletters.

The Communication Trust

The purpose of the Trust is to raise awareness of the importance of speech, language and communication across the children’s workforce and to enable practitioners to access the best training and expertise to support all children’s communication needs.

For more information please visit The Communication Trust website

For further information please visit the Communication Consortium page.

The Autism Education Trust

The Autism Education Trust is a collaboration between The National Autistic Society, TreeHouse and The Council for Disabled Children and it aims to work alongside a number of professionals and organisations in England working in the fields of autism and education. Ian Wylie Chief Executive at TreeHouse is chair of the steering group.

The main aim of the Autism Education Trust is to create a platform for voluntary, independent and statutory providers to plan and develop appropriate autism education provision – across all education settings, including early years.

Further information about the Autism Education Trust please visit their website. Alternatively you can email the information desk at the Autism Education Trust.