Disabled Children's Service
The Disabled Children’s Service provides a social care service to disabled children and young people up to the age of 18 years and their families.
The service is divided into 2 teams:
- A specialist team of social workers and community support workers who provide both a social work and care management service
- A team of experienced residential care staff who provide high quality care and support to children and young people in our residential short break unit.
The teams are based at New Town House and Ross Close Short Break Unit, Old Hall.
Who is the service for?
- Children and young people up to the age of 18 years
- Children and young people who have significant physical or learning disabilities, complex learning needs including autistic spectrum disorder
What do we do?
- We work in partnership with Health
and Education, other social work teams and home care agencies within the voluntary sector (Carewatch , Crossroads , Homestart ) to assess the needs of disabled children - We provide support to enable parents to care for their disabled child
- We provide information to children and families on a range of topics, for example how to access inclusive and special leisure opportunities (FUN , Warrington Association for Special Children WASC, The Peace Centre) for disabled children
- We will support young people to plan for their future when they leave school. This is called transition planning.
How we assess your needs
A member of the Disabled Children’s Team will meet with you in your own home to talk about your family situation. With your permission we will speak to other people who have a significant role to play in your child’s life, such as doctors, other health workers and teachers. This information will enable us to assess whether support is needed. There may be times when we cannot help, in these situations we will offer advice or provide details of organisations that may be able to help.
Services available include:
- Support in the home – this can be working alongside parents/carers to care for their child in their own home, or to support a child to enable parents to spend time with their other children or to have a break
- Outreach support – either on a 1 to 1 basis or in small groups to enable children and young people to access activities in the community
- Short break care – either within a residential unit, or with approved carers who provide care for disabled children in their own homes
- Direct Payments – are a way of arranging services for disabled children and their families. A person with parental responsibility for a disabled child is given money to pay for services instead of the local authority arranging them on their behalf. Direct Payments for 16 and 17 year olds are aimed to help young people become more independent to help prepare them for adult life.
What happens after an assessment?
We will meet with you to agree a Care Plan that will record what service is to be provided, how often this will be provided and who will provide the service. We will review this plan every 6 months. You will receive support from a social worker or community support worker.
Related pages:
- Financial advice and assistance
Contact us:
Access Social Care (ASC)
Tel: 01925 444239
Email: asc@warrington.gov.uk
Last updated 04/03/2010 15:30:59
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