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AUTISM

Early day motion 1359, tabled 26 April 2007 by Mike Gapes (Labour). Signed by 69 members.

That this House notes that the Prime Minister met autism campaigner Ivan Corea, who presented a report on autism; backs the call of the Autism Awareness Campaign UK for the Government to undertake a 10 year programme of building specialist autism schools, building autism units in mainstream primary and secondary schools, tackling the failure of some secondary schools in bringing in educational strategies to deal with autistic children in a mainstream setting, providing access to further education and higher education, labour market opportunities for people with autism and tackling the whole question of bullying and autistic children; requests that the Government review the provision of recreational services for autistic children; and calls on the Government to launch a cohesive national strategy for autism.

Signatures by party: Labour 49, Conservative 6, DUP 5, Liberal Democrat 3, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Independent 1, Plaid Cymru 1, Respect 1, UUP 1.