Here at Autism West Midlands ensuring the views of autistic individuals and the autistic community are heard is vital to the development of our programmes and courses. To do this, we rely on Experts by Experience, including those who have used Autism West Midland’s services and/or autism professionals from inside and outside the charity.

We are now establishing a co-production group to do this in a more formal way. The role of the group is to ensure that messages promoted, and information produced by Autism West Midlands is accessible, accurate, evidence based and in line with the current consensus of views of the autistic community. It will also ensure that information by other sources that we pass to the people we support is accurate, evidence based and recognised to be of value to the autistic individuals.