Other support services
Children & family health Devon
Children and Family Health Devon provides children’s health services across Devon and are an alliance of local NHS providers led by Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Devon Partnership Trust, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and Livewell SouthWest.
They provide access to services such as:
- Specialist School Nurses
- Autism Spectrum Assessment Service
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
- Children in Care Service
- Community Children’s Nursing Service
- Devon’s Family Information Service for Children with Additional Needs (SIGNPOSTplus)
- Devon Early Years Complex Needs Service
- Disabled Children’s Service (Devon County Council)
- Learning Disability Team
- Occupational Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Public Health Nursing
- Rehabilitation Officers for Visually Impaired Children (ROVIC)
- Specialist Children’s Assessment Centres (SCAC)
- Speech and Language Therapy
Early Help
Early Help is the extra support your family can get if you need it. It may be that you want to prevent a problem, or change things for your family before the problem becomes more serious.
It is not a specific service or team, it’s an approach that brings together people from a range of services and teams who will work together with your whole family to help improve the situation for everyone.
It can offer support to families from pre-birth to adolescents with all sorts of issues from parenting, employment and school attendance to emotional wellbeing or anti-social behaviour.
Children’s centres provide Early Help services, to the whole family from pregnancy through to aged eight, when families most need support using the “team around the family” approach.
Devon County Council
Devon County Council have a number of services including:
Devon's Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Local Offer
Keeping Children Safe
Keeping children safe isn’t just about protecting them from physical abuse. It is important to be aware of issues such as cyberbullying, online grooming and sexually harmful behaviour.