Applications Now Open for the NAT Founders Award
Started in honour of our founder, Dr Dinah Murray, this fund will offer one off financial grants to autistic people based in the UK to support them in pursuing work that would be in line with Dinah’s previous work and ...
Yo Dunn speaks at NMCF Fluctuating Capacity webinar
Dr Yo Dunn of NAT spoke at the National Mental Capacity Forum's 2024 webinar on Fluctuating Capacity, 13th of June 2024. View the whole webinar on the NMCF website. Yo's talk starts at 2 minutes 10 seconds ...
NAT Progress Report – Spring 2024
Governance and Management Leneh Buckle retired as a NAT director in April 2023 and we invited Jo Minchin to join the NAT Board. Public Relations This year we have undertaken significant updating of the NAT’s online presence. Our website has ...
Update on NAT’s activities – January 2022
Representation and networking The NAT continues to be represented on: The executive board of EUCAP (the European Council of Autistic People), of which NAT is an associate member. The Operational Delivery Group for the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training (OMMT), convened ...
NAT statement on the increasing of ward space at the High Security State Hospital Carstairs
PDF of this statement. The National Autistic Taskforce (NAT) is saddened and shocked to hear of the plan to increase the numbers of autistic people detained at the High Security State Hospital in Carstairs. This move disregards the recommendations made ...
A Positive Proposal
www.nationalautistictaskforce.org.uk October 8th 2018 contact us on positiveproposal@176.32.230.1 (No, It’s Not Just About Autism…) This is the missive sent to the Task and Finish Groups advising the government about autism. It’s important to note that it’s not just about autism ...
NAT Progress Report – Summer 2018
Governance and structure The National Autistic Taskforce (NAT) has made significant progress since its inception at the beginning of 2018. The NAP Autistic Advisory Panel (AAP) was expanded to create the NAT strategy board (SB), ensuring representation from the four ...
Source guidelines: SLT responsibility and NAT campaign for digital inclusion
This is the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists' detailed statement of their responsibility to upskill the workforce and share their knowhow. We think a development of this policy focussing on training for a new support work role of ...