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Autistic Accreditation Award
The special school that I help in has provided an autistic specific provision for a number of years and decided to submit for National Autistic Society Accreditation. The assessment took place earlier this year and I was to be part of this. The two assessors were booked in for three days, 20 lessons were observed as well as information gathered about how the school works. Staff and families were interviewed and parents completed a questionnaire. The assessors were so impressed with what they had seen that they left after two and a half days. Thus I was not part of the assessment!
The feedback was very positive but the school was not able to let on until now. There will be a ceremony later this month to Award the school. They will be the only school in North Yorkshire with this Accreditation. This is fantastic news for the school and I am not at all surprised because it does provide wonderful education for autistic children of school age.
Autism Accreditation was established by The National Autistic Society (NAS) and its affiliated local societies, with support from the Department of Health. Autism Accreditation has been the foundation upon which much of the successful expansion of quality services for people with autism has been built.
The mission of the Autism Accreditation programme is to improve the quality of provision for people with an autism spectrum disorder:
* By providing a unified standard of excellence in both policy and practice
* By presenting a systematic framework for continuous self-examination and development
* By ensuring that services registered with the programme are given guidance and support in order to meet the established criteria required for accredited status.
Autism Accreditation provides an autism-specific quality assurance programme for over 300 organisations throughout the UK. Clients include local authorities, NHS trusts, education authorities, local autistic societies and private companies. It actively seeks to help like-minded organisations throughout the world to use our expertise, in order to develop national standards. The Autism Accreditation award provides a seal of quality and provides peace of mind when choosing a place for a relative or friend.