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<p>The Care Act will require local authorities to ensure all assessors are appropriately
trained to carry out assessments. This builds on the statutory guidance <em>Implementing
Fulfilling and Rewarding Lives</em> which followed the 2010 Adult Autism Strategy
for England, and which required autism awareness training to be available to all staff
working in health and social care and specialist training for those in key roles that
have a direct impact on access to services for adults with autism. The Department
is currently consulting on the regulations and statutory guidance that will support
the implementation of the Care Act, and we will remind local authorities through this
of this requirement in <em>Implementing Fulfilling and Rewarding Lives.</em></p><p>
</p><p>Due to the complexities of assessing people who are deafblind, regulations
under the Care Act will require their assessments to be carried out by a specialist
assessor. One of the questions in the consultation document is whether specialist
assessors should be required to carry out the assessment of people with other conditions,
such as autism, and to explain why this should be the case. Based on the evidence
we receive through the consultation we will consider if this requirement should be
extended to other conditions.</p><p> </p>
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