On August 14, The Council on Quality and Leadership (CQL) awarded the Autism Society of North Carolina (ASNC) a four-year term of accreditation. The Council on Quality and Leadership is a nationally recognized organization that provides accreditation, monitoring, evaluation, training, and consultation to human service organizations.

Leading British parliamentarians joined hundreds of people at a London Service to mark the international day - Autism Sunday also known as the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Autism Sunday was observed around the world on 8th February. Cathedrals, churches and religious organisations around the world pray for over 60 million people with autism and Asperger's Syndrome.

(London, UK) Autism campaigners in the United Kingdom have made a direct appeal to the Chancellor, Alistair Darling and Her Majesty's Treasury to reach out to the vulnerable, in his pre-budget report, released on Monday 24th November. The autism charity, the UK Autism Foundation has appealed to Chancellor Alistair Darling to help parents, carers, children and adults with autism and Asperger's Syndrome cope with the recession and the credit crunch.

(London, UK) A leading autism campaigner in the House of Commons in the Palace of Westminster in London, Lee Scott MP for Ilford North has been shortlisted for the prestigious e-Politix Disability Champion Award for 2008. Scott has been a powerful advocate, speaking out in the British parliament on behalf of parents, carers, children and adults with autism and Asperger's Syndrome. He has championed the cause of autism in the House of Commons.

(London, UK)A leading peer in the House of Lords, Baroness Uddin of Bethnal Green has urged Britain's premier, Gordon Brown and his Chancellor, Alistair Darling to do more for families with autism who are below the poverty line. Lady Uddin is supporting the Poverty and Autism Initiative launched in London on Monday 3rd November by the autism charity, the UK Autism Foundation.

(London, UK) Councillor Alan Weinberg, the leader of the London Borough of Redbridge Council warmly supported the important work of the UK Autism Foundation. Cllr Weinberg was speaking at the Jon Sterry Concert for Autism in Woodford Green, Essex. The fundraising concert was in aid of the autism charity, the UK Autism Foundation.

Lee Scott MP recently visited South Woodford in East London in the United Kingdom to open the offices of a new autism charity for a new generation, the UK Autism Foundation.

(London, UK) A 16 year old British teenager,James Wilson who has autism, has been found by police having walked from Epping via Chelmsford to Colchester in Essex, after a massive hospital blunder. Mrs Lash Wilson, mother of James has called on the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Secretary of State for Health Alan Johnson to launch an inquiry as how a vulnerable teenager with autism was allowed out of Goodmayes Hospital in Essex to go to the cornershop unsupervised.

The highly acclaimed guitarist, Jon Sterry will rock for the UK Autism Foundation at the first ever Redbridge Community Dinner for Autism scheduled to be held on Saturday 12th July at 7 pm. The community dinner will be held at the All Saints Church Hall in Inman's Row in Woodford Green, Essex.

Pope Benedict XVI has been urged to act on autism after Adam Race, a 13 year old boy with severe autism was banned from the Roman Catholic Church of St.Joseph in Bertha, Minnesota by his priest Fr.Daniel Walz. According to court documents, Fr. Daniel Walz took out a temporary restraining order on the boy with autism and his mother Carol Race on the grounds of disruptive behaviour.' They were threatened with arrest by the Sheriff of Todd County if they entered the church for Mass.

Autism Campaigners have urged Pope Benedict XVI to provide guidelines to the Roman Catholic Church on how to deal with children and adults with autism and Asperger's syndrome in the light of the banning of a 13 year old boy with autism, Adam Race from the Church of St.Joseph in Bertha, Minnesota.

Autism campaigners in the United Kingdom have urged Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Chancellor Alastair Darling to help families with autism during the present financial turmoil.