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Do you care for someone with autism?

Do you care for someone with autism? Is going to the doctor or being admitted to hospital a worrying experience for them? Autism Bedfordshire want to hear about the healthcare experiences of autistic adults and their carers across of the East of England. Your feedback will help them improve services across the area.   Click […]

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Do you care for someone with autism?

Do you care for someone with autism? Is going to the doctor or being admitted to hospital a worrying experience for them? You are being invited to a ‘Hear Me, See Me’ listening session for autistic adults in the East of England which includes Peterborough and Cambridgeshire. The online Zoom session takes place on Wednesday […]

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Do you help look after an autistic brother or sister?

Sibs, the charity for brothers and sisters of disabled children and adults, has an exciting new Sibling Respite project. The project is for siblings aged 18 or over who are carers for their brother or sister who is autistic. The project offers carers who lives in the UK an opportunity to meet others, share experiences […]

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Do you care for someone with autism?

Do you care for someone with autism? Is going to the doctor or being admitted to hospital a worrying experience for them? Autism Bedfordshire invite you and the person you care for to their listening group for autistic adults in the East of England, ‘Hear Me, See Me’. The ‘Hear Me, See Me’ online Zoom […]

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‘What Good Looks Like’ – have your say

The government wants to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and with autism. This work is called, ‘Building the Right Support’. Cambridgeshire County Council, Peterborough City Council and the Local Government Association’s Research and Information team want your help to find out what people in our communities think good support looks like. […]

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Survey for carers of adults with learning disabilities or autism

Are you the carer of an adult with learning disabilities or autism who is or has been an inpatient in a mental health, learning disability or autism specialist hospital? As part of an NHS England funded project reviewing advocacy for people with autism and people with learning disabilities in hospital settings, the Challenging Behaviour Foundation […]

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Training for parent carers available

Do you care for a young person over the age of 16 with a learning disability? A free training workshop is available to you to help support them. The NHS England and NHS Improvement Learning Disability and Autism Programme is inviting family carers to take part in a workshop. Attending the workshop will help you […]

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Hope project helps parent carers

Caring Together was recently able to support more than 100 parents of children with autism from across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk to go through the Hope programme. And we are really pleased to see the feedback on the course showing how beneficial it was to the parents. The Hope programme was an online six-session self-management […]

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Support available for parents and carers of children with autism

Do you have a child with autism who is aged over 11? Would you like to share your experiences to support others and also get support from other people. There is support available to you online through Health Education England. You will be able to share your experiences of raising a child with autism, build […]

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