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<p>The National Framework for autism assessment services, published by NHS England
in April 2023, recognises the need to increase the supply of specialist workforce
for autism assessment services.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan sets out the
steps the National Health Service and its partners need to take to deliver an NHS
workforce; this is backed by over £2.4 billion over the next five years to fund additional
education and training places. We aim to increase training places by 26% for both
clinical psychology and child and adolescent psychotherapy by 2031, taking the combined
number of training places to over 1,300. Training places will be more than 1,000 each
year up to 2028/29.</p><p>In addition to education and training for clinical psychologists
and child and adolescent psychotherapists, over the next three years, NHS England
has committed funding of over £600 million to grow the wider psychological professions
workforce through training approximately 15,000 more individuals to undertake psychological
therapist and psychological practitioner roles.</p>
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