CAMHS Learning Disability Service

Who is eligible for our team?

We offer assessment to children and young people who have:

• an identified challenging mental health or behavioural difficulty, impacting quality of life and/or presenting risk of harm
• a diagnosed moderate-severe learning disability or significant impairment of intellectual and social adaptive functioning

What we can do

Mental health in children with learning disabilities can present differently from other children. So we also look at:

• Behaviours that challenge that risk breakdown of family, care and/or educational environments
• Diagnostic assessments
• Ongoing management of mental health conditions
• Practical, environmental and emotional capacity of families and schools to proactively meet children’s needs and/or contain and manage behaviours that challenge

Who we work with

Our aim is to ensure that children, young people and families are supported with the right time with the right resource. Our team will offer the following support to other agencies:

• Virtual and in-person consultation
• Supervision and joint working
• Consultation with other CAMHS teams
• Joint assessment
• Coordinating care with external services
• Single and multi-agency training