Vision and Values

Enabling people living with autism in Scotland through the whole life journey.

Core Values

Our core values include the following:

"The key concepts underpinning our mission are inclusion, potential, citizenship, individualism, progression, responsibility and leadership."

• A person-centred approach to support to children, young people and adults living with autism
• Upholding the right of service users to have input to their services
• The promotion of positive and inclusive lifestyles, enabling people living with autism to make a positive contribution to their local community
• Investment in staff support and learning
• A commitment to stakeholder involvement
• Promoting mutuality of support and respect through the highest standards of integrity
• To be an open and accountable organisation

Download our Annual Report 2012

What constitutes “enabled” from the point of view of our principal stakeholders?

A) Service Users

• Opportunities to exercise informed choices, through education and experiences
• Engagement in their own lifestyle

B) Parents and Carers

• Quality of life for the child
• Quality of the parent or carer’s own life
• Shared experiences with other families and carers
• Education, advice, and “How to” guidance
• Access to support
• Engage with the autism community
• Establish support networks

C) Commissioners (such as Social Work and Education departments)

• Maximise benefits to all with learning disabilities within each annual budget
• Partnership working
• Relationships
• Efficiency
• Making the overall business case for greater budgets

Our Strategic Capabilities

These are aspects of our organisation in which we excel and which our customers value highly. We are uniquely and sustainably good at focussing exclusively on autism, through:

• Addressing individual needs that are highly specialised
• Designing / providing education and lifestyles for the individual service user
• Our staff "get” working with people with autism
• Valuing people with autism for their autism
• Enabling people with autism to participate in their own development
• Raising society's expectations for people with autism