Gateshead Autism Strategy 2025-2030
Priorities
There is an overarching aim to reduce health and social inequalities. All work will be developed alongside autistic children, young people, adults and their families and supporters.
Priorities
- Priority 1: Pre & post-diagnostic support- all age moving to a needs led approach
- Priority 2: Reducing health inequalities & barriers to health and social care services
- Priority 3: Education & lifelong learning
- Priority 4: Employment & skills
- Priority 5: Criminal justice and youth justice
- Priority 6: Community inclusion and involvement
- Priority 7: Increasing understanding & promoting reasonable adjustments within universal services.
Alongside the overarching Heath & Wellbeing and Thrive strategies that inform this work, we thought about:
- what autistic residents and those with lived experience have told us (see Your Voice Counts ICS Autism Peer Research report (opens new window) and Involve North East - stakeholder views of autism services in Gateshead 2023 report (opens new window))
- input from our workforce, including health and social care, education, criminal and youth justice, and employment professionals
- feedback from the voluntary sector
- local and national policies
- available funding and resources, including the availability of specialist staff
As part of setting the priorities of this strategy, autistic people identified what a good service/support would look like to them. These insights have been summarised as "I statements". I statements reflect what people would be able to say if the service was working for them.