Leading Autism Campaigner
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AAUK 9 Years Of Mental Torture Gary McKinnon
02 years ago
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AAUK campaign to help Gary McKinnon
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AAUK 9 Years Of Mental Torture Gary McKinnon
02 years ago
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in About Kevin Healey
AAUK campaign to help Gary McKinnon
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IT’s time for change Autism Campaign 2nd phase coming soon
02 years ago
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in About Kevin Healey
www.autismactionuk.co.uk Autism Action UK 2nd phase coming very soon, hard hitting campaign on the upcoming cuts for people who have (more…)
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IT’s time for change Autism Campaign 2nd phase coming soon
02 years ago
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www.autismactionuk.co.uk Autism Action UK 2nd phase coming very soon, hard hitting campaign on the upcoming cuts for people who have (more…)
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AAUK It’s Time For Change Autism Campaign
02 years ago
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Kevin healey hands in 5000 names to 10 Downing street 2nd hard hitting campaign coming very soon RE the upcoming (more…)
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AAUK It’s Time For Change Autism Campaign
02 years ago
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in About Kevin Healey
Kevin healey hands in 5000 names to 10 Downing street 2nd hard hitting campaign coming very soon RE the upcoming (more…)
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Autism Campaigner Kevin Healey hands over thousands of names today to NO 10 for Autism
02 years ago
Kevin Healey at NO 10 for the Autism Campaign that he launched
In May 2010, i launched the ‘It’s Time For Change -Stand-up For Autism’ project.
The petition asks the major political party leaders to put autism at the top of their agendas.
So far i have had support from celebrities and MPs and backing from the National Autistic Society (NAS) for my campaign – which started in Stoke, but has since grown nationwide.
I’m chairman of Staffordshire Adults Autistic Society(SAAS) “Enough is enough. Now it’s about time the government woke up to autism. Over 500,000 are affected in the UK and with the recent autism act only half a million pounds have been ploughed into autism; it’s ridiculous.
i get hundreds of calls each month with people at breaking point. They struggle to access the right support, i.e. housing, benefits, respite care and employment. I have known people to take their own lives, families and marriages break up, and more and the Government need to act now and do more for autism.
(taken from the mapping project for the city in 2004) the waiting list for a diagnosis in Stoke can be 10 months, due to the service only operating two and a half hours a week.
Staffordshire has “around 11,000 people with an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), “There are 1023 children under 16 in Stoke alone with an ASD”.
thousands of people have signed the petition, including local MPs Joan Walley, Rob Flello and Paul Farrelly. Celebrity astrologer Russell Grant is also amongst the supporters.
SAAS recently launched the first national autism radio station in the UK - Autism Radio UK an internet based service manned by those affected by autism and Aspergers syndrome, which provides information and news to others.
it’s time for change Campaign stand up for Autism with Kevin Healey
Last November the government passed the Autism Act 2009 , the first legislation of its kind in the UK. It sets in law the requirement for the Secretary of State to publish a strategy for meeting the needs of autistic adults. This then has to be enacted by local authorities and the NHS.
The act was first brought to parliament by Conservative MP Cheryl Gillan who agreed to take forward a private member’s bill on autism in late 2008.
A similar bill is currently going before the Scottish parliament.
Only 15% of adults with autism in the UK are in full-time paid employment
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Kevin Healey Autism campaigner takes thousands & thousand’s of names to no 10 Downing Street London
02 years ago
Kevin healey today on the 8th of October takes thousands’s names to number 10 Downing street London to petition the (more…)
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Joan walley mp supports the campaign
02 years ago
Mp Joan Walley support the Autism campaign It’s t time for change stand up for autism with kevin Healey
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Rob fello MP Stoke supports it’s time for change campaign
02 years ago
Rob fello vice chair of the APPGA autism plalimentary group fully backs and supports it’s time for change campaign www.autism-campaign.co.uk (more…)
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Over 4000 signatures for autism campaign
02 years ago
Over 4000 signatures for the campaign so far but we still need more please post this video to all your (more…)
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Chronic Services for people on the Autistic Spectrum
03 years ago
- Kevin Healey SAAS
Where do i start! well on Sunday my twin brother came to visit from his home, (Shaun is in a nursing home) he was well wrapped up with a scarf and hat on, i have never seen him wearing one, he normally rips them off, however this Sunday because it was so cold he must have thought that he would keep it on, swinging on his swing in my mum’s back garden, Shaun can’t explain or tell you because he has no communication it’s a good job i can speak up for him!,
well in the evening we took him back to the nursing home where one of the staff told me and my mum that shaun’s ten hours of care is going to be taken away by social services, now the point is that Shaun is severely Autistic with challenging behaviour, now there is 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week, Shaun has had this care package for the last 5 years, happily going swimming once maybe twice a week, or either out for a meal, so lets evaluate this 10 hours divide by 7 days Ihr and 25 mins a day Shaun gets, well we have to accept that but this is what he has been getting for the last 5 years, we were told that the social worker visited and reviewed his care package and they want to remove it- (because of the cut backs!) its’ Disgusting if Shaun was not in a nursing home he would have to have 24 hour care 7 days a week ie- if living independently through lets say direct payments or an individual budget this would cost health and social services thousands a week to cost look after Shaun.
Now its going under an appeal its not been withdrawn yet but it may do soon, now this is where the AUTISM ACT comes in, statutory Authorities have a legal duties to provide the correct provision and support for people with Asperger/Autism? i just cant belive what is happening am i write in saying are we in the 21st century? or still stuck in the 18th century? the whole system needs a shake up, I’m shocked and horrified and upset as you can inmagine!.
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