Children and Family Health

Find out more about child and family services.

Children and Family Health Devon

Child and family services are now provided by Children and Family Health Devon. Their team includes specialist school and community nurses, health visitors, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists. If you need any advice, information or with to refer your child or family to their team visit their website.

Some of the services they provide include

Autism Spectrum Assessment service
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
Children in Care Services
Community and School Nursing Services
Devon’s Family Information Service for Children with Additional Needs
Devon Early Years Complex Needs Service
Learning Disability Team
Occupational Therapy
Palliative Care
Public Health Nursing
Rehabilitation Officers for Visually Impaired Children
Social Services – Children with Additional Needs
Specialist Children’s Assessment Centres
Speech and Language Therapy.

As a practice we are committed to provide good care and protection to the children registered at our practice. We are in close contact with our school nurses, parent liaison nurses and health visitors in order to provide a multi disciplinary approach to the care of children and their families.

Devon Family Resource

Devon Family Resource supports families with emotional and practical issues as well as excluded teenagers. They tailor their support to meet your needs helping with finances, housing, parenting issues and behavioural and emotional needs of your children. Their website can be seen found here.

They also have launched a new phone advice line for parents and carers across Devon. They can offer advice on a specific issue around their children and family relationships, including any communication issues or conflict they are having with their partners or co parents of their children. In addition to offering tips on how to deal with a particular situation they will be able to signpost you to other organisations who can help. The phone advice line will be manned for 1000 to 1400 Monday to Friday. People will be able to leave a message outside of these hours, or when the operators are busy. To use this service ring 01392 949059.

Healthier Together

Healthier together is a website provided by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). The provides advice for parents, young people and pregnant women, You’ll find clear information on common childhood illnesses, including advice on what ‘red-flag’ signs to look out for, where to seek help if required, what you should do to keep your child comfortable and how long your child’s symptoms are likely to last. Visit their website here.

Pinpoint

Pinpoint is a signposting service to community support and advice for young adults, families, visit their website for more information here.

Online Parenting Course

Families in Devon, Plymouth and Torbay can benefit from free online parenting courses that are being launched today (8 June 2020) at the start of Infant Mental Health Awareness Week. The courses have been created by the Solihull Approach and focus on supporting the relationships between parents, grandparents, and/or carers and their children by improving emotional health and wellbeing.

The four courses provide information about pregnancy and birth, brain development and the physical and emotional development of a baby.

Access to the free online courses is available at www.inourplace.co.uk using the code TAMAR, which provides lifetime access. The courses are available in different languages including Urdu, Polish, Chinese, Bulgarian and Arabic.