Child Health and Disability Service
Introduction
The Child Health and Disability Service is a city-wide service which is part of Children's Services. It has a service manager and consists of four teams, each with its own team manager.
All the teams, except the Sargent Cancer Care Team at Christie Hospital, are based at Chorlton.
Mission Statement
The service aims to promote the inclusion of children who are disabled, or have specific health needs, in their local communities. At the same time it aims to provide a quality service to those disabled children most in need, in order to maintain them in their own families and communities.
Services will focus primarily on the needs of the child whilst also taking into account the needs of parents and carers, and will work together with service users and other agencies.
The Disabled Children's Family Placement Team
This is a team of five family placement workers who recruit, approve and support foster carers who provide short breaks (link care), short term and long term placements to severely disabled children. The team also deal with the adoption of disabled children.
Attached to this team is a Family Support Co-ordinator who co-ordinates a team of family support workers providing practical support for severely disabled children in their homes or the community. The support workers may help with personal care, implement specific plans or programmes supported by nurses &/or psychology service or supervise an activity.
Information about the Disabled Children's Family Team can be downloaded as a leaflet (PDF).
