The Time is Now: Ramping Up FASD Support Services
On Monday 21st of March, at the National Liberal Club in Westminster, we unveiled The Time is Now: The National Perspective on Ramping up FASD Prevention, Diagnosis and Support Services. This report represents the culmination of a series of roundtables called by our Experts Committee, with input from more than 60 experts from various fields, […]
Sandra Butcher on the New NICE Quality Standard on FASD
https://youtu.be/iTc_DHhr34w This blog post is by National FASD’s Chief Executive Sandra Butcher. Sandy was a lay member on the NICE Quality Standard Committee. This is a personal opinion, she is not speaking for NICE. For National FASD’s statement on the NICE Quality Standard, please click here. Sandra Butcher, Chief Executive The new NICE Quality […]
Prof. Gina Radford’s Legacy as National FASD Trustee
Rev. Prof. Gina Radford has announced she is stepping down from her position as a Trustee for our organisation, as a result of growing demands on her working life. Gina is a former deputy chief medical officer for England, and has helped to guide National FASD in its recent expansion. “I am very sad to […]
2022: The Tipping Point for FASD
Happy New Year! 2021 was a hugely positive year for FASD, gathering yet more momentum for progress. With that in mind, at National FASD we’re starting 2022 with a lot of excitement. It’s important that all families supporting loved ones with FASD understand these changes, as they are tools for us all in the […]
Help Fight SNL’s FASD Prejudice
On Saturday 15th January 2022, the American sketch show, Saturday Night Live (SNL) aired a skit called “Winter Formal” in the US. In the skit, a boy is mocked for various character traits and marketed as a sexual deterrent for hire to parents of teenage girls. The character traits used are a profile of […]
Students Help Prevent FASD Reach Younger Audience
Science and engineering students from the prestigious Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, USA, have been advising National FASD’s Prevention project over the past year. Two teams of students have worked intensively on elements of the project through WPI’s London Project Centre. While they were originally supposed to be on placement in London, the teams worked […]
How Understanding FASD Can Help You Provide Even Better Social Care
Millions of people in the UK are living with FASD Recent prevalence figures drawn from a study by the University of Salford this year, indicate that somewhere between 1.2 and 2.4 million people in the UK were living with FASD in 2020. Most of these people will be living with inaccurate diagnoses, or no […]
Why Your School Should Invest in FASD Training, and Fast!
The time has now come where schools can no longer afford to ignore FASD … “…it is highly likely that an average sized primary school (with 60-90 children in the target age group [8-9]) would have at least one or two cases in that year group.” – (McCarthy, R., Mukherjee, R.A.S., Fleming, K.M., Green, […]
New study: FASD affects millions in the UK
The National Organisation for FASD welcomes the new Salford study and calls for action The National Organisation for FASD is delighted that the UK’s first gold-standard active case-ascertainment FASD prevalence study has been published by researchers from the University of Salford. They have posted a summary of their findings here. For a PDF of our press release, please click […]
Young People With FASD Celebrate FASD Awareness Month
Young People With FASD Get Creative for FASD Awareness Month Hopefully you’re aware by now, but this month is FASD Awareness Month! This year, the whole month of September is dedicated to celebrating the achievements of people with FASD, as well as raising awareness and encouraging prevention. That’s why we’re so excited to be […]
