The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service offers assessment and therapy to children and young people who have mental health problem. Referral is via GPs or consultant Paediatricians. (This service is part of the Health Service).

The Clinical Child Psychology Service provides assessment and therapy to children, young people and their families in cases of psychological difficulty. These may include problems with behaviour, emotional problems, and coping with the effect of chronic illness. The service provides direct clinical work with children and their families, which may be individual, group or family work. The service aims to focus on prevention and early intervention wherever possible and aims to have be accessible for all ethnic groups and children with disabilities. Referrals are accepted from GPs, paediatricians and social services. (This service is part of the Health Service).

Community Paediatricians provide a specialist service for children aged 0-19 years with special needs. This covers all aspects of child development, including physical and mental disability. Referral is usually via the family GP, Health Visitor or the Community Child Health Doctor working from the local clinic or health centre. (This service is part of the Health service).

The Education Welfare Service can offer help and advice around a number of issues by liaising between home and school, discussing concerns with school staff, working jointly with other agencies and working with groups of children. Issues they may be able to help with include: attendance at school, difficult behaviour, social and family problems, legal rights and responsibilities, child protection, work with 'out of school' pupils, pre-school issues, special educational needs, children's employment. (This service is provided by Lancashire County Council).

Lancashire Advisory Service. The LEA has teams of school advisers who work directly with primary, secondary and special schools. The advisers are concerned with whole school management and the development of practice and procedures in schools. In addition, the LEA has teams of teachers who work on the professional development of teachers by providing training services, including conferences, courses and workshops, consultancies and advice, publications. There are seven special needs advisers and two teacher advisers. Each adviser has strong background in headship and management of school's and/or services. These advisers support schools to develop their SEN provision and the LEA in decisions about the development of SEN across the county. (This service is by Lancashire County Council).

The Lancashire Education Inclusion Service provides support for children with special educational needs in mainstream school. It is able to provide a range of services including assessment, advice on target settings, resources, direct teaching and strategies to ensure the child is included fully in the life of school. They are also available to support access and equipment requirements including ICT. Schools now have the financial responsibility of supporting children with special educational needs and will be able to purchase the expertise of specialists from the service. (This service is by Lancashire County Council).

The Lancashire Education Mental Service provided part-time education out-of-school for pupils whose health temporarily makes them unable to attend school. Provision is usually in hospital or in a small group. Home teaching is only provided when the pupil is truly housebound. The pupil remains on the roll of the school, which has the responsibilities for delivering the National Curriculum. LEMS supports the school by ensuring that, medical issues permitting, the pupil follows the programmes set by the school thus enabling the pupil, when well enough, to return to school up-to-date. (This service is by Lancashire County Council).

Paediatric Occupational Therapy. The Occupational Therapist works with children with physical and learning difficulties, providing practical support and advice in order to improve function in everyday living activities. S/he works with the child and their family to develop function and promote independence, enabling the child to meet their maximum potential. Practical support is provided through play activities, socialising, specialist treatment and school access. They advise, assess and make recommendations for equipment and adaptations. Support is also provided for family and carers in order to reduce the impact of disability within the home environment and enhance the quality of the family life. (This service is part of the Health service).

Physiotherapy Services offer advice and support for parents and carers on all aspects of physical management of children at home and in other appropriate settings. Assessment, advice on specialised equipment and group or individual therapy sessions are offered as appropriate. Therapy and support are also offered to children with developmental, neurological, respiratory, orthopaedic and oncology condition on both an inpatient and outpatient basis. (This service is part of the Health service).

Pupil Access Team is a team within the LEA who can offer information and advice regarding: availability of places and admissions procedures in local education authority nurseries/nursery classes and primary and secondary schools; advice to parents on what to do if their child is excluded from school, including how to appeal against the exclusion; help with finding an alternative school place, should your child be excluded; information about free school meals, grants for uniform and home-to-school travel. (This service is by Lancashire County Council).

The School Medical Team provides medical support to the educational statementing process, as well as to other children at school requiring medical advice. A large proportion of their advice will be to children with a disability, some of whom will have a Statement of Special Educational Needs. Access is usually through the school via the School Nursing service. (This service is part of the Health service).

The School Nursing Service provides health care services to children of both primary and secondary school age. The service includes: health assessments; advice and support to children, young people and their parents, teachers and education staff; drop-in clinics in high school, providing weekly confidential service for young people; vaccination and immunisation programmes; health education and promotion in conjunction with teaching staff; health interviews to all reception and many year 7 pupils; specialist services to local special schools. (This service is part of the Health service).

Social Workers undertake assessments in respect of child in need (including children with disabilities) and their families. Working with the family, other agencies and voluntary bodies, social workers will seek to ensure that services are provided in ways which meet the needs of the particular children and families. Families can refer themselves for social work assessment. Professionals can also refer to Social Services although this should be with the knowledge of the families concerned. (This service is by Lancashire County Council).

The Special Educational Needs Assessment and Educational Psychology Service. Educational Psychology works in schools with individuals and groups of children who may have special educational needs. They also work with pre-school children and their families, working closely with the Child Development Centre and Portage Services. The assessment team provides statutory assessment of the arranges provision for children with special educational needs. They can provide information and advice regarding the assessment process, and information about SEN Tribunals. They also arrange, where appropriate, admissions to special schools. (This service is by Lancashire County Council).

Speech and Language Therapists help children who have difficulty in learning to communicate, their parents and carers. Services offered include: assessment; individual and group therapy involving children and their parents; parent workshop sessions; individual and group therapy involving children and their carers in nursery settings. Specialist services are available for children who may have hearing impairment, those requiring bilingual services, children who stammer, children with cleft lip and palate, children with complex needs. (This service is by Lancashire County Council).

The Traveller Education Service works with Gypsy, fairground, Circus, Bargee and New Travellers children and their families. The aim is to establish good patterns of attendance to raise levels of achievement. Services provision include: home/school liaison, literacy support, transition between phases, distance learning, in class curriculum support and loan of resources. In addition to the above, the service works pro-actively in the pre-school and post-16 areas. Parental involvement is seen as a key area in order to raise the value of education and parental expectations. The service works to improve: provison for Travelling families, access to educational opportunities, integration into school and social life generally. (This service is by Lancashire County Council).