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Social Services - Children and Families

Children with Disabilities

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Introduction
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How to Make a Referral

Introduction

Disabled children are children first and need the opportunity to experience valued family life. To help achieve this, they and their families may need extra information, help and support. This may be for a short time or over a longer period, possibly through the childhood years.

The East Riding Children's Trust Disability Team which is part of the East Riding Local Authority work with children & young people aged 0-19 years who have the most severe & complex disabilities or life limiting conditions that effect learning and / or physical development and have a major impact on quality of life. This includes:

The multi-agency team consists of Social Worker's, Care Coordinators, Assessment Officer (Transitions), Learning Disability Nurses and a Learning Disability /CAMHS Nurse and they work across the East Riding.

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Assessments

All disabled children are unique and assessments are based on the individual needs of the child & family. The Team believes that not all disabled children need specialist support and encourage disabled children & their families to access universal & local community services were appropriate.

Following referral to the team an Initial Assessment will be undertaken. It may be at this stage that we can give you information and signpost you to other services & support to meet your needs.

If not a social worker from the team will undertake a Specialist Assessment, in accordance with the Children in Need Assessment Framework which which focuses on the needs of the family as a whole and incorporates both an assessment of the child's needs & those of the parent carer.

Following the assessment the support plan may highlight the need for specialist provision. This could include:

The team works in partnership with other service providers including Health, Schools & Education and the Voluntary sector to ensure an holistic package of support is agreed to meet the assessed needs.

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Reviews

All the support provided is subject to review. This means that as the needs of the child & the family change then the services provided may change. This could be an increase or decrease of an existing service or a change or new service that will meet the needs more effectively.

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How to Make a Referral

If your child has severe & complex disabilities and requires access to specialist services please speak to anyone involved with your child and ask for them to undertake a Common Assessment (CAF).

Alternatively visit anyone of our 13 Customer Service Centres where a referral form can be completed and forwarded to the Social Service's department. The team will then assess your eligibility for services provided by the Council.

If you are eligible for any services an assessment is undertaken and then based on individual needs a support plan will be compiled to determine how the services are to be implemented/provided.

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