Autism and Learning Disability: Integrated Care Boards
(asked on 10th May 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Integrated Care Boards have an operational keyworker service for children with learning disabilities and autistic children.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 17th May 2023
The NHS Long Term Plan committed to ensuring children and young people with a learning disability and autistic children with the most complex needs will have a designated keyworker by 2023/24. The keyworker programme was developed and tested in 13 pilot sites, and at the end of March 2023 the service was operational in 36 integrated care boards.