Whether local authorities are expected to have autism partnership boards, and to what extent these are monitored.

The Scottish Government is committed to improving the lives of people with autism through the Scottish Strategy for Autism.
There is no legal requirement placed upon Local Authorities to have specific autism partnership boards. It is up to the local system how they organise themselves around care group interests, and many have maintained specific working groups or planning groups covering all the main care groups, including for autism. We do require Integration Authorities to have in place a strategic planning group (SPG) and locality arrangements.
The Scottish Strategy for Autism published jointly with COSLA provides a framework for localities to work across sectors to deliver local autism strategies. Each locality is expected to have produced an autism plan to suit the needs of their own local autistic population.
How localities have approached this varies, some have multi-agency steering groups responsible for monitoring the delivery of local autism plans with an autism lead. Some are needs based approaches through neurodevelopmental pathways. The National Coordination project engages and supports localities in the implementation of these local strategies; however delivery of these action plans varies across Scotland.