I’ve just read about this as a pilot. The idea being to get waiting lists down. It should be able to give an individualiser profile and a list of reasonable adjustments and adaptions.
My immediate thought, as someone who works in the field and has an ND child, is that this won’t speed up any of the other bits (DLA, EHCP requests, PIP for adults in some cases), it won’t fund extra specialist schools. So ultimately it will just lead to more frustration if more people have a diagnosis.
I get that it’s cheap. I get that it will seem to the general public that progress is being made. But I feel it’s not just a diagnosis that most parents and other people want, they want support, they want help, they want options and they want other services to listen (schools, local authorities, employers).