Welcome to the adult autism strategy consultation

The Government wants to hear your views about what it should do to improve the lives of adults with autism.

On this website, you can read what the Government have said about what they think needs to change.

You can also answer a questionnaire about what you think needs to change.

If you want to answer the questionnaire, you have until 15th September to complete it.


To begin the consultation for the first time.

If you have already begun to write a response.





If you have particular needs which make it difficult for you to read this, please contact us and we will try and find a more suitable format.

This online process is provided by Dialogue by Design on behalf of the Department of Health.

Latest update

Run your own Consultation event with our Online Events Toolkit

As part of the adult autism strategy consultation we're encouraging you to run your own local events. To help you, we've put together an Event Toolkit which you can download from this website. It contains useful resources such as example agendas and show cards.

Easy read online questionnaire now available

We have made the Easy Read version of the questionnaire so that as many people as possible can answer the questions in this consultation.

We want to hear your views!

To take part, register for the Easy Read consultation now.

Documents for download

Draft adult autism strategy - full consultation document (1223K) - opens in a new window.

Draft adult autism strategy - full consultation document, plain english version (1078K) - opens in a new window.

Draft adult autism strategy - easy read document (571K) - opens in a new window.

To open these pdf documents you need Adobe Reader 5 or above, which you can download and install for free.

These PDFs have been tagged for accessibility and have been made compatible for use with assistive technologies, e.g. people can listen to the PDF using Acrobat Reader's 'Read Aloud' function.