UK Autism Bill

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It won't have passed through all the stages to become law for at least another few months. It is around the middle of the process now. In the latter stages it will probably receive a lot more press coverage.

Well, so far, so good......

There's still the House of Lords to go, and it depnds on how much they get paid, quiet like... if they had enough money, someone opposed to the bill could thwart it.

But I don't see that as likely.

Wow an actual Bill/Report that Parliament have looked recently at that I don't hate, nice.

Damn you Digital Britain report!! !

and then there's the forthcoming election - which could easily scupper the plans - it does still have a very long way to go.

Well, it's a Private Member's bill put forward by a Tory (I know it's hard to believe), so maybe there's hope. In fact I think it was the Labour government that spoke out against it - something about it being unwise to set these things in stone and taking all the power of discretion from local government. But they sounded to me like they were on the backfoot, they seemed scared of coming over as mean and discriminatory. Of course a new administration with a big landslide victory can be as nasty as it likes, and both Labour and the Tories want to cut spending......if only Joe Public saw the big picture, and shifted from giving Labour a deserved hiding to returning a government with a narrow majority so they'd have to respect public opinion....but I suppose it won't happen.