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We certainly want to encourage community groups to getactive, organised and involved in solutions—sometimes before they identify problems, because it sometimes takes a problem to arise before people want to become empowered and get organised.
Probably the biggest consequence in relation to the NHS, which we do not talk about, is the cost of inactivity, where people do not get out and about because there is too much traffic in their communities and they do not feel safe.
However this measures economic status (employment, unemployment or inactivity) at a point in time and does not measure flows of individuals between categories of economic activity over time.
What does this tell us about the way that society views neurodivergent children? The Cost of Inaction The Public Purse This Inquiry, and the ADHD and Autism Inquiry, has heard evidence about the huge costs of untreated and unmanaged ADHD.
We are broadly supportive of that and, obviously, the provision remains that you get an individual authorisation, or potentially a general authorisation in relation to the register of competence, to undertake those activities.