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The Autism Central Peer Education Programme is a Peer to Peer support programme for parent carers and Personal Assistants of autistic children and young people. This is an all age, free service and children do not need to have a diagnosis for parent carers to access the service.

The Autism Central website has a constantly growing range of resources and guidance for parent carers and personal assistants.

The website also has information about our weekly online group sessions for parent carers and Personal Assistants. Some are drop-in sessions where parent carers can talk about anything relating to autism, and others are themed sessions. The group sessions can be booked directly from the website.

In addition to this, parent carers and Personal Assistants can register for a 1:1 telephone or Teams call if they would like to talk through any concerns or questions in more depth. This can be done through this page on the website.

All of our Peer Educators have lived experience of autism, mostly with autistic children of their own, of a range of ages. They undergo training in order to be able to support other parent carers.

The service covers the whole of the East of England.

peersupporthub@essex.gov.uk

https://www.autismcentral.org.uk/

Days and times of the online sessions are varied to support access for parent carers with other responsibilities.

1:1 telephone calls will be arranged with parent carers individually to suit their needs. Requests for 1:1 support can be made via the form on this page of the website.

Support for parent carers and Personal Assistants of autistic children and adults of all ages.

Local Offer - general provider