Health and wellbeing

Health

If your child needs extra support with communication and interaction you need to speak to your school Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) or SEND Outreach Team.

NELC SEND Local Offer | Speech, language and communication needs (SLCN)

What can I do to help, what services are out there for my child, how to make a referral and more.

Cognition and learning

First steps to support your child’s cognition and learning. Speaking to your child’s school SENCO and using the Specialist Advisory Service

Physical disability

Spotting the signs of a physical disability and how to get support

Hearing and vision

The Educational Team for Hearing and Vision offer a wide range of services to support children and young people who have been diagnosed with hearing and/or vision loss from birth to leaving school

Neurodevelopmental Conditions

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)/ Dyspraxia
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Intellectual Disability/Learning Disability Sensory Needs
Tourette Syndrome (TS)

NELC SEND Local Offer | Sleep (nelincs.gov.uk)

Free sleep support, training, and useful links.

Midwives, health visitors and school nurses

Midwives for pregnancy, birth and afterwards. Health visiting for 0-5 years, school nurses for 5-19 years.

Maternal Wellbeing Service – LiveWell (nelincs.gov.uk)

This free service supports you to maintain your health and wellbeing from pregnancy until baby’s first birthday. A personal practitioner for helps with things like, anxiety, stress, housing, children and family issues, financial concerns, alcohol and more.

Learning disability annual health checks for 14 plus

An annual health check helps you stay well by talking about your health and finding any problems early, so you get the right care.

Home (hnyhealthiertogether.nhs.uk)

This website provides parents, carers, pregnant women and birthing people, babies, children and young people across North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, the East Riding, Hull, North Yorkshire, and York with consistent and high-quality advice from local health professionals.

You’ll find clear information on common childhood illnesses, including advice on what ‘red-flag’ signs to look out for, where to seek help if required and how long your child’s symptoms are likely to last.

Community and hospital services

Speech and language
Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy
Dietitians
Children’s Continence Service
Adult ADHD and ASD Services
Adult Learning Disability Team

Complex care

Children’s Complex Health Team
Designated Clinical Officer for SEND
Children’s Continuing Health Care
Personal Health Budgets
Children’s Nurse Educator
Complex Health Nurse
Nurse in School (Humberston Park)
St Andrew’s Hospice

Health: Self help

Links to health apps and the NHS website.

Medicines For Children

We provide practical and reliable advice about giving medicine to your child.

GPs, Pharmacies and Dentists

Find a GP, pharmacy, and dentist. Use the Minor Ailment scheme if you do not pay for prescriptions.

Equipment and wheelchairs

Wheelchair loans, personal wheelchair budgets and equipment and adaptations to support daily living.

Diabetes

Home – NCYPD Network (cypdiabetesnetwork.nhs.uk)

Children and young people with diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes in children – NHS (www.nhs.uk)

New online support site for people with Type 1 diabetes.

Home – DigiBete

DigiBete is a video platform app to help young people, families and communities to manage Type 1 Diabetes. It is a social enterprise funded by NHS England with all content clinically approved by the Diabetes Team at Leeds Children’s Hospital.

Have your say on health services

Current survey’s and consultations, engagement and coproduction, feedback and complaints for NHS Services, Healthwatch, PALS, and EHCP Annual Review Feedback.

Wellbeing

Social, emotional and mental health

Includes links to local mental health providers for children and young people as well as info on:

ADHD
OCD
Eating concerns and disorders
Anxiety, stress and worry
Low mood and depression
Sleep
Trauma and PTSD
Self-harm
Exam stress

Free, online counselling, Compass GO wellbeing support working closely with schools, and mental health support referrals from NAViGO.

Visit Kooth.

Kooth is commissioned by the Local Authority to provide free, anonymous counselling and wellbeing support to young people aged 11-19.

The site relies on text-based interaction. Below you will find some of the accessibility features of the site, and adaptations they can make for users with SEND.

Inclusion and adaptations for SEND

If someone has learning difficulties or learning needs, we would look to adapt our approach to their strengths and explore ways to accommodate their needs in a person-centred and collaborative way.

This may include:

Adaptations to cognitive difficulties
Adapting how we present information
Giving you more time in the chat function with our counsellors to read and respond to information
Enhanced use of visual information and material
Break-down of material/interventions in smaller steps
Use of simple language to accommodate your ability
Relying more on concrete/less abstract language
Allowing in-session breaks etc.

We are also happy to liaise with other external agencies, if an individual consents to this, to ensure joined up care.

Web accessibility

We also ensure our platforms meet the Web Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA.

Following these guidelines makes content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including accommodations for:

Visual and hearing loss and impairments
Limited movement
Language and speech disabilities
Photosensitivity
Learning disabilities and cognitive limitations

We have clinical Team members with expertise in evidence-based interventions for those with Intellectual Disabilities and/or Autism Spectrum Disorders/SEND.

We offer ongoing support and guidance to service delivery staff working with those with Intellectual Disability, Autistic Spectrum Disorder and SEND.

All delivery staff complete a Level 2 Dyslexia Awareness course.

If Kooth can not adapt sufficiently to meet the users needs, we would signpost individuals to other services that may be able to support them better.

Ultimately, we always prioritise what we feel will best support each service user based on their unique needs.

Compass GO Mental Health Support Team

Compass GO… Mental Health Support Team works with children, young people, families and educational settings in North East Lincolnshire. We provide support, help and advice for pupils, students and schools for issues related to emotional and mental health wellbeing. Compass GO… currently have full school coverage of the North East Lincolnshire borough but please call our duty line to clarify if needed.

Referral to mental health services.

Online workshops for parent carers to support their children on things like anxiety, and mood. Self-help for young people, and signposting to other support and resources.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (Young Minds Matter) :: NAViGO (navigocare.co.uk)

Supporting bereaved children and young people with special educational needs | Child Bereavement UK

Ideas to support your child through a bereavement.

Eating Disorders (nelincs.gov.uk)

What you can do to support someone with an eating disorder.

PEACE, eating disorders and autism.

Inclusion: LGBT+ group for 16 to 25-year olds :: NAViGO (navigocare.co.uk)

Inclusion is our weekly peer-to-peer group for young people who are members and allies of North East Lincolnshire’s LGBT+ community.