SEND health and care for professionals

Find out about health and care services for children with special educational needs and disabilities.

SEND health and care services

Find out about health and care services for children with special educational needs and disabilities.


SEND health and wellbeing

Get advice on what to do if you are worried about the health and wellbeing of a child with SEND.


SEND mental health support

Accessing support for SEND children and young people struggling with mental health issues.


Short breaks and respite

Short breaks and respite are available to families to provide a break from caring for a disabled child and for the child to have a break from their carers.


SEND specialist health services

A guide to specialist health services for children and young people with SEND.

Health provider contact information

Find contact information for education, health and care plan requests (initial and annual reviews). You can also download the  health provider contact information spreadsheet (xlsx / 28 KB).

Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale area

Education, health and care plan - request for health advice

Location Health professional Contact details
ABL   beu.northyorkshire@nhs.net

Scarborough Place at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Health advice requests for initial education, health and care plans should be sent here (unless the child/young person is known to a health provider at a different hospital, for example, Leeds).
For annual reviews, requests are sent here if a child/young person is under the care of a service at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Paediatrics
Occupational therapy
Speech and language therapy
Physiotherapy
Community children's nurses
Email: yhs-tr.scarboroughehcps@nhs.net

North Yorkshire and York, Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust (TEWV).

If the child/young person is under the care of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), a health advice request for both initial education, health and care plans and annual reviews needs to be sent here (unless the the child/young person is known to CAMHS at a different hospital for example, Leeds).

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)

Scarborough team

Email: TEWV.lakehouseadmin@nhs.net

North Yorkshire and York place within NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB. Children's continuing care (if a child is under their care) Email:
hnyicb-ny.childrenscontinuingcare@nhs.net

HDFT 0-19 service - Scarborough

Northway Clinic, Northway, Scarborough, YO12 7AF.

If the child/family wants advice requested from a health visitor or school nurse or if the child/young person is a child in care. Email: hdft.0-19nyorks@nhs.net

Vale of York area

Request for health advice for new education, health and care plans

Location Health professional Contact details

York Place at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

All health advice requests for initial education, health and care plans should be sent here unless the child/young person is known to a health provider at a different hospital, for example, Leeds.

Paediatrics
Occupational therapy
Speech and language therapy
Physiotherapy
Community children's nurses
Audiology
Ophthalmology
Orthotics
Ear, nose and throat
Email: yhs-tr.educationalhealthcareplans@nhs.net

North Yorkshire and York, Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust (TEWV)

If the child/young person is under the care of CAMHS the health advice request should also be sent to this email address for CAMHS advice to be provided in addition to the above advice request. If the child/young person is known to CAMHS at a different hospital for example, Leeds then advice request to be sent to that service.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)

York and Selby team

Email: tewv.orcahouse@nhs.net

York and Selby CAMHS, Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust (TEWV) Autism assessment service Email: tewv.orcahouse@nhs.net
York and North Yorkshire place within NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB Children's continuing care (if a child is under their care). Email: hnyicb-ny.childrenscontinuingcare@nhs.net
Healthy Child Service 0-19 service - City of York If the child/family wants advice requested from a health visitor or school nurse or if the child/young person is a child in care. Email: HCS-Secure@york.gov.uk
Healthy Child Service 0-19 service - North Yorkshire address for example, the child lives in the Selby area. If the child/family wants advice requested from a health visitor or school nurse or if the child/young person is a child in care. Email: hdft.0-19nyorks@nhs.net

Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven area

Location Health professional Contact details
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Paediatrics
Speech and language therapy
Occupational therapy
Physiotherapy
Children's community nurses
ehcp.spoc@nhs.net
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCFT) CAMHS
Children in care team
School nursing special needs team (for Brooklands school)
Craven children's learning disability team
ehcp.spoc@nhs.net

Request for health advice for education, health and care plans if you are aged 18 and above

If there are currently no health services involved with yourself or the young person the general oversight of health and wellbeing needs, including onward referrals as clinically indicated, is overseen by the GP.

Location Health professional Contact details
North Yorkshire Place within NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB. Continuing health care team (if under the care of this service). Email: hnyicb-ny.continuing-care@nhs.net
York Place, Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust (TWEV) Adult learning disability service (if under the care of this service). Email: tewv.aldyorkandselby@nhs.net

Other contacts

Location Health professional Contact details
North Yorkshire and York Place within NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB Children's continuing care Email: nyccg.childrenscontinuingcare@nhs.net
North Yorkshire, Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust (TEWV)

Wellbeing in Mind team (if the child/young person is known to the Wellbeing in Mind team)

A list of education settings that have Wellbeing in Mind teams can be found on The Go-To website.

Also available for electively home-educated and those excluded from education.

Email: tewv.wellbeinginmind@nhs.net