Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 103open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2000
That this House backs the call of Ivan Corea to declare 2002 as Autism Awareness Year, aimed at raising the profile and the plight of autistic children across the UK; and urges local education authorities and NHS trusts to do more for autistic children, including autists from minority ethnic communities, to review and assess their educational services and specialist speech therapy services and change policies where discrimination has taken place.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 83closed
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2000
That this House backs the call of Ivan Corea of the King's Fund to declare 2002 as Autism Awareness Year, aimed at raising the profile and the plight of autistic children across the United Kingdom; and urges local education authorities and National Health Service trusts to do more for Autistic children, including autists from minority ethnic communities and to review their educational and specialist speech therapy services in order to change policies where discrimination has taken place.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 1108open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2000
That this House notes the considerable public concern at the prohibitive level of the proposed charge of ú580 for oral hearing (or ú250 for a review on the papers) to be paid before the right of visitors' appeal can be exercised a sum for which for many people in the Indian sub-continent represent one year's earnings; and urges the Government to abolish such charges so as to restore the principle of equal access to British courts.