Question follow-through · 24272
Police: Autism
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking steps to improve the awareness of autistic characteristics in Prevent safeguarding training.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 3 Sept 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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- Police: Training · 14 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking steps to improve the awareness of autistic characteristics in Prevent safeguarding training.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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3 Sept 2026
Answer published
Prevent conducted an internal strategic review of mental-health and neurodiversity (MHND) in 2025 to strengthen how individuals with mental ill-health, or who are neurodiverse, are supported and managed. The review was designed to ensure that mental healt...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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Police: Training
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 28 August 2026 to Question 24272, whether a similar internal strategic review of awareness of (a) mental health and (b) neurodiversity will be conducted by the Countering Vio