We recommend that the Department of Health & Social Care provides us with a complete assessment of the cost of providing community support for all autistic people and people with learning disabilities currently in inpatient units. Alongside this, an assessment should also be made of the cost of providing community support for all autistic people and people with learning disabilities funded by both the NHS and local authorities. Once the costs of moving care and support to the community for th...

We recommend that the Department of Health & Social Care provides us with a complete assessment of the cost of providing community support for all autistic people and people with learning disabilities currently in inpatient units. Alongside this, an assessment should also be made of the cost of providing community support for all autistic people and people with learning disabilities funded by both the NHS and local authorities. Once the costs of moving care and support to the community for these individuals currently detained in inpatient units are identified, we expect the Government to provide investment which matches these costs, including Type: recommendation | Number: 2 | Paragraph: 24 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: We agree with some of this suggestion. It is hard to say how much money it would cost to move everyone out of mental health hospitals and back into their community because the money comes from many different places. Between April 2022 and