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<p>Children on the autism spectrum will benefit from the changes to the special educational
needs system which the Government is bringing about through the Children and Families
Act 2014, including the strengthened arrangements, through 0-25 Education, Health
and Care plans, for the transition from children's services to adulthood which young
people with autism can find particularly difficult.</p><p>The Department for Education
is funding the Autism Education Trust to provide training to early years, school and
further education staff on autism. From January 2012 to February 2014, 22,451 staff
have received level 1 basic awareness training, 3,214 have received level 2 hands-on
tools and techniques training and 775 have received level 3 training for those who
want to develop their knowledge of autism further and those who will themselves take
on a training role, such as school Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators.</p><p>The
Department is also funding three autism organisations from 2013 to 2015, including
Ambitious about Autism, to work with four general further education colleges and schools
to test innovative ways of supporting the transition of young people with autism from
school to college and the National Autistic Society to help young people with autism
take part in the development of ‘local offers', to provide advice to professionals
and to fund an exclusion adviser for parents and professionals.</p>
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