{"id":217,"date":"2024-03-11T16:21:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/?page_id=217"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:16:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:16:43","slug":"bara","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/service\/bara\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasonable adjustments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ohft-box blue\">\n<p>Bucks Autism Reasonable Adjustments (BARA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Who we are<\/h2>\n<p>We are a small team, made up of a Mental Health Liaison Nurse and Occupational Therapist.\u00a0We are based within BAADIS.<\/p>\n<h2>What we do<\/h2>\n<p>We do joint working with professionals\u00a0across Oxford Health (Buckinghamshire) who support adults with autism or suspected autism.<\/p>\n<p>We offer advice and education to other professionals on what reasonable adjustments are, and how they can adapt the care they provide.<\/p>\n<h2>Why we were set up<\/h2>\n<p>The Autism Act (2009), The Equality Act (2010) and NHS Long Term Plan (2019) say that services must make \u2018reasonable adjustments\u2019 for autistic people to allow more positive experiences.<\/p>\n<p>The Mental Health Act Code of Practice also states the importance of making reasonable adjustments, avoiding excess levels of stimulation and removing \u2018blanket rules\u2019 for autistic patients.<\/p>\n<p>Reasonable adjustments mean making changes to services so that they are easier for autistic people to use.<\/p>\n<p>This means that services MUST support and meet the needs of people who have additional needs.<\/p>\n<p>BARA was set up to support clinicians in Buckinghamshire to achieve these standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who we are We are a small team, made up of a Mental Health Liaison Nurse and Occupational Therapist.\u00a0We are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"parent":298,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-217","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217\/revisions\/370"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/baadis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}