DCYPS – eligibility criteria in outline
The eligibility criteria help us determine whether a child or young person should receive help from DCYPS.
We advise parents and carers to read these criteria carefully and discuss them when contacting GCC’s Children’s Services. The pathway to a service from DCYPS is via a social work assessment.
School-age children may be receiving additional support at school, for example through an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), or be awaiting assessment for an EHCP.
Pre-school children will have been recognised as falling significantly behind their milestones and be receiving pre-diagnosis interventions.
In addition, they will have one or more of the following.
- Global developmental delay
- Severe and profound learning disability
- Complex behavioural challenges linked to severe and profound learning disability
- Communication needs that have led to the child’s inclusion on the pre-school social communication (SCOM) diagnostic pathway
- Complex medical conditions
- Severe and profound physical disability