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Services for adults with autistic spectrum conditions (ASC): good practice advice for primary care trust and local authority commissioners

This good practice advice for PCT and local authority commissioners builds on Better Services for People with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder and is part of a programme of work to ensure that people with autistic spectrum conditions receive the right support to live life independently and to the full, exercising choice and control over decisions that affect their lives. This publication is part of a two-stage process to better support commissioners of services for adults with autistic spectrum condition and will be followed by detailed commissioning guidance later in the year. To help inform the develop of that commissioning guidance, DH would welcome responses to the questions set out at the end of this good practice advice and invites people to register their interest in being involved in that work by contacting us at:

• autism@dh.gsi.gov.uk (opens new window)
• Download advice note for commissioners - updated 21 October 2009 (PDF, 187K)