Covid-19 and SEND

Activities

Some activities in Kirklees may not be running. Please check with each provider for their current arrangements. Activities can be found on the Activity search page.

Children's Therapy Services

These include:

• Locala Children's Speech & Language Therapy (North Kirklees)
• Locala Children's Sensory Occupational Therapy Team (North Kirklees)
• Locala Children's Physiotherapy Team
• Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust (CHFT) (South Kirklees)

These services are still running. They are providing a service for all children on active caseloads. They are seeing children remotely via telehealth wherever possible but are offering face-to-face appointments if clinically required. They continue to work in partnership with schools and early years settings.
If you need to speak to someone, please call the admin on 01484 344299.

Education safeguarding

This service is still running but face-to-face training for Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL’s) if being offered online. Home visits have been suspended.
Any legal action for prosecution or penalty notices for attendance has been suspended.
If you need to speak to someone, please call 01484 221919 or email education.safeguarding@kirklees.gov.uk.

CAMHS (Thriving Kirklees)

If you need to speak to someone, call the Thriving Kirklees single point of access on 01924 492183 Monday to Friday 8am - 8pm, Saturday 9.30am -12pm

Nortonthorpe Hall Child & Family Trust - this is running as normal, except for group work activities which are carried out online. Alternative platforms for 1-1 sessions will still be the predominant offer; however, where needed face-to-face interventions will still be provided.

South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust (SWYPFT) - At present they are only doing the developmental history part of the Neuro developmental assessments as they are able to maintain 2 metre distance when working face to face .  Parents are given the option of doing the assessment by video, phone or Face to face. This means that the assessments will not be fully completed until we are able to do the play based assessments face to face as this does need more close contact.

Locala 0-19 (Thriving Kirklees)

This service is still running but parents and young people may be offered virtual contact instead of face-to-face.

However, our baby clinics are not currently running but we are developing a clinic offer by appointment only.  Whilst schools are not fully open we are not able to offer vision screening, hearing screening and growth checks as we usually do in schools.

If you need to speak to someone call 0300 304 5555 at any time, text (parents) 07520 618867, or (young people) 07520 618866, or visit our website - Thriving Kirklees to e-refer.

Locala -  Sensory Occupational Therapy

This service is still running but training for schools and parents is carried out online.

If you need to speak to someone, call 030 0304 5555 and ask for Victoria Cureton-Favager or Katie Latham.