Have a look at the latest newsletter from the National Autistic Society’s- National Brokerage Project  http://www.asknormen.co.uk/modules/downloads/download.php?file_name=188

The Projects Main Aims

• To empower people who have autism, and their families to understand social care and health system
• Promote awareness of autism, personalisation, rights and brokerage throughout the 3 year project.
• Test and develop a sustainable model for the delivery of brokerage support, by the end of the schemes second year.
• To share good practice across the UK.
• To offer autism specific brokerage to 2,484 people who have autism in 4 geographical areas.
• To recruit a team of Broker Development Workers and a network of Pay As You Go Brokers.
• Plan and host 24 family information days, divided up into 2 per year per geographical group