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The National Autism Trainer Programme (NATP) course is suitable for mental health professionals across all seven NHS England regions, and other relevant staff, 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

• health and justice settings 

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

Current training dates

To book training for any of the settings listed, please click the above ‘Book your training place’ link.

Currently, there are training dates available from 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

• adult community mental health settings

• residential special schools and colleges

• health and justice settings (plus a pilot training course November to December 2023)

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.

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 roadmap video: