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Children’s Health And Disability Team

Children’s Health And Disability Team. Role of the Referral Coordinator. First point of contact for new enquiries about services from the Children’s Health and Disability Team

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Children’s Health And Disability Team

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  1. Children’s Health And DisabilityTeam

  2. Role of the Referral Coordinator • First point of contact for new enquiries about services from the Children’s Health and Disability Team • Information gathering to inform the decision about whether an assessment of need should be undertaken, and offering advice and information and signposting to services not needing an assessment • Undertaking an assessment, which will identify what level of service, if any, is needed by a child and their family. • Setting up 100 hours of short breaks where this is identified • Making links with key workers in the community, who can have a day-to-day overview of the service that is being provided. • Ensuring that reviews of services take place and that services continue, or are altered as necessary.

  3. Making a referral • Referrals can be made by anyone – a professional working with the child or a family member • Telephone or email the referral coordinator with as much detail as possible • If you are a professional making a referral please ensure that the family is aware that you are doing so.

  4. Outcomes • An enquiry may not always lead to assessment and sometimes just information about accessing services in the community is enough support • When an assessment is made it may not always indicate the need for a service, but could help identify what services could be accessed in the community • An assessment could indentify a need for service that can be met within the 100 hours short breaks offer • A young person and their family could present with complex issues that need the ongoing involvement of a social worker and will be allocated to a named worker within the Children’s Health and Disability Team • Once a service of up to 100 hours is set up, a community key worker will be identified to monitor and review the service, and the young person will be closed to Childrens Health and Disability Team.

  5. Short breaks • 100 hours of short breaks can be used creatively to best support the individual needs of each child and their family. • Services currently used include: • direct payments to employ a PA or to access community activities • sessions at after school or weekend/holiday clubs such as SNAPPY, drama or sports clubs • CYCs Community Short breaks services

  6. Review of services Short breaks services should be reviewed annually, and this can usually be done by the identified key worker as part of the annual review at school, or through other meetings that might be held regarding your child. At any time a re-referral can be made back to the referral coordinators, either if the identified service is no longer meeting the assessed needs, or if the needs of the child or family have changed

  7. Referral Coordinator • Frances Campbell • Leona Thorpe • Contact on 01904 555693 or • CHADenquiries@york.gov.uk • Referral Coordinator, Children’s Health and Disability Team, The Avenues Children’s Centre, Sixth Avenue, York, YO31 0UT

  8. What do people say?Parents .... Finding the right activity is key. We have used direct payments to pay for diving. Z has found sport clubs hard because of his coordination, they were not good for his self esteem so he would not last at clubs. We have seen a big change with the diving. The club is brilliant with Z and he is enthusiastic and confident even asking family to come and watch him something he would never have done in the past. Short breaks support has opened up new doors for our child, it has been brilliant. This h This has helped us find a club that is right for him, in an area he loves (drama), it is wonderful to see him come out so happy, chatting to the other children, it's great for him to mix with children that he doesn't go to school with t for him, in an area he loves(drama), it is wonderful to see him come out so happy, chatting to the other children, it's great for him to mix with children that he doesn't go to school with SNAPPY has been really good for her. It’s been great to see her with children outside of school and we get a short break too.

  9. What do people say?Children ... Its helping me to play with friends and things. I'm excited to go to it and go on trips. I give it 10/10 (uses a holiday club) A uses nonverbal communication. She is always smiling and happy when she is told it is a Snappy day and when we collect her she is still happy. It's fun, I get to go to a club that I couldn't go to before, people like me for who I am there. I can work with girls without others taking the mickey.

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