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The National Autism Trainer Programme (NATP) course is suitable for mental health professionals, across all seven NHS England regions, who currently work or may work with diagnosed or undiagnosed autistic people in the following settings:

• adult inpatient mental health hospitals

• children and young people 

  inpatient mental health hospitals

• all age community mental health settings, including CAMHS

• residential special schools and colleges

• secure welfare and youth justice. 

The programme commenced in May 2023. Each training course runs over four days and is delivered completely online.

Current training dates

Currently there are training dates available from September to December 2023 and January to March 2024 for:

• adult inpatient mental health

• children and young people inpatient mental health

• children and young people (CAMHS) community mental health settings.

Training dates in November to December 2023 are available for the four-day pilot training for adult community mental health settings.

A two-day orientation course is also available for those NHS staff who attended the pilot Autism Inpatient Train the Trainer course in 2022 with either AT-Autism and Anna Freud, or Maudsley Learning. 

Future training dates

Further training dates in 2024 will be released for these settings. Training dates for secure welfare, youth justice and special residential schools and colleges, will be released in the latter half of 2023.

Complete this form to register your interest in future training dates for any of the settings.

Subscribe to our National Autism Trainer Programme newsletter to find out when new training dates are released, and to hear about news and events.

Training roadmap

We have created a useful training roadmap graphic explaining the training process and the steps to becoming a NATP Trainer and then training colleagues. You can also view our 

Training groups are based on the setting you work in. Please choose your setting below to book your training.