Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the merits of the policy in Sweden of screening children for autism aged 2.5 to 3 years old.
The United Kingdom National Screening Committee’s (UK NSC) recommendation to not offer population screening for autism spectrum disorders in children is currently under review as per its published evidence review process. The UK NSC will look at all relevant published peer reviewed evidence since the last review in 2012.
The UK NSC will hold a public consultation on the evidence review later in 2020/21 and welcomes comments from members of the public and stakeholders. More information can be found at the following link:
https://legacyscreening.phe.org.uk/screening-recommendations.php