FOI/2025/26/194

Request

Please also address treatment courses, help available and advice regarding:

-How Child Development Service is typically conducted: Referral received and triaged within 7 days, child placed on waiting list for an initial child development clinic assessment, child is seen in face to face clinic for a full assessment, child will be placed on appropriate pathway for a follow up as necessary, report completed and distributed to the referrer, parents , used as an onward referral to other services etc

-delayed speech: Child can be referred to the SLT team for support

-lack of gestural communication: As above

-referrals for diagnostic assessment for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Child is seen for an initial child development assessment and then placed on the ASD pathway for a diagnostic assessment as needed. 

 

Please share Equality and Safeguarding policies, practices, provisions and directly related information which address each of the following:

 

-Safeguarding children  - See policy attached

-Safeguarding vulnerable children – See policy attached

-Emotional harm - – See policy attached

-Safeguarding children from emotional harm– See policy attached

-Managing risks and vulnerability of children with health conditions, including mental health conditions, learning difficulties, and/or special needs and that relating to neurodivergence - – See policy attached

-Preventing parental alienation – No policies available

-Keeping separated parents equally informed of child's development, care and treatment – No policies available

-Services, help and advice available to repair emotional harm, including emotional harm relating to parental alienation. – No policies available