Lincolnshire County Council; Children's social care 2020

[Sly Saint]

Eligibility

Children may be assessed through our Early Help team, Social Care teams and/or the Children with Disabilities Team.

In order for a child or young person to be considered for support from the Children with Disabilities Team, a number of things are considered.

Children with Disabilities Team
Appropriate referrals to the team would include:

• severe learning disabilities
• severe physical disabilities
• severe developmental delay in motor and/or cognitive functioning
• profound multiple disabilities
• children will have a severe, substantial, and permanent disability or life threatening or life limiting illnesses
• children and young people who fall on the severe end of the Autistic spectrum with associated learning disability

Children with the following diagnosis can be referred to other appropriate teams or agencies:

• ADHD / ADD
• ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) / Chronic Fatique
• Asperger's syndrome
• Oppositional defiance disorder
• Tourette's
• Social conduct disorder
• Dyspraxia
• Foetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Anxiety
• Dyslexia

https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/spe...s-disabilities-send/childrens-social-care-1/2

 

[Invisible Woman]

ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) / Chronic Fatique

It's a shame they equate ME to chronic fatigue, but then it appears they can't spell fatigue anyway.

Still they acknowledge kids with ME need support & that's a step forward.