Draft Guidance to Accessing Services for Children with Additional Needs and Disabilities
The Aiming High Service Disabled Children’s Team have prepared draft guidance to ‘Accessing Services for Children with Additional Needs and Disabilities’.
Sefton expects that all children and their families should have the same range of opportunities, regardless of ability.
They want children with additional needs and disabilities to be included in all services, and for families to be able to access services without advice and agreement from a professional, which can take time.
Services that do not require professional involvement are known as ‘universal’ and ‘targeted’ support and should be the first option for all families of children with disabilities.
If a child has needs that means they cannot use these services, the Local Authority can help provide additional specialist support.
A guidance has been developed to help parents & carers to understand how to access services for children with disabilities and the criteria used for an assessment for services.
The draft guidance is currently being consulted on and they would be grateful if parents and carers and people who work with children and young people with additional needs and disabilities could engage and share their feedback.
Further information on the consultation can be found here
The consultation is currently open and will close on Tuesday 18th August.