Select committee: Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 8
Sixth Report - Inequalities in healthcare and employment for people with a learning disability and autistic people
Published 21 May 2024
Paragraph 42
Addressed to Government Equalities Office
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
Women and girls with autism struggle to get diagnosed. Understanding of how autism presents in women and girls must be improved so that they can receive the support they need before they reach crisis and to prevent misdiagnosis and inappropriate care. The Government acknowledged this need in the National Disability Strategy but has made no progress in delivering the promised autism public understanding initiative. The Department for Health and Social Care should develop and trial an initiative aimed at improving public understanding of autism in women and girls by the end of 2024. In the meantime, the Government should set out what steps it is taking to improve the autism diagnosis process for women and girls.
From: Women and Equalities Committee, Sixth Report - Inequalities in healthcare and employment for people with a learning disability and autistic people (HC 134), paragraph 42, 21 May 2024
Government response
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