Children’s Specialist Services in Halton – Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Welcome to Woodview Child Development Centre – please find below a summary about our services and how to make a referral for children and young people living in Halton.

We offer a single referral form for community based specialist therapy, neurodevelopmental nursing and paediatric services.

Additionally some referrals may require a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency assessment approach and in these cases the referral will also be reviewed by a wider group of professionals including: Speech and Language Therapy Service (provided by Chatterbugs), Educational Specialist, Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHs) and Orthoptist Service.

Please ensure you use all the most recent forms available below.

Referrals will be considered from:

Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCo) from a school or Early Years setting
Health professionals such as a health visitor, school nurse or therapist
Social Care professional such as an Early Years or Social Worker
Medical professional such as a GP or hospital doctor (secondary and tertiary care)

Once the referral for the child or young person has been reviewed by all of the specialist services and partners the parent/carer and the referrer will be informed by letter (or email if indicated on the referral form) the decision either:

Confirmation of the service or services that have accepted the referral for assessment, advice and if needed treatment

– Informed that the referral has not been accepted with an explanation and signposting suggestions

Children and young people accepted by the Multi- Disciplinary Team (MDT) are likely to have either a known (previously diagnosed) or suspected condition that requires an integrated and coordinated assessments to decide on a diagnosis and/or provide an integrated package of care for treatment, conditions likely to be seen by the MDT:

Global developmental delay
Cerebral palsy
Social communication difficulties
Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Chromosomal abnormalities such as Down Syndrome
Neurological condition

Bridgewater provides the administration and coordination of the MDT on behalf of our partners that includes Chatterbugs, Halton Council and North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

We hold a weekly MDT meeting and all referrals are triaged on a weekly basis.

Referral forms

Step One: Please complete the Referral to Woodview Children’s Specialist Services Form in full.

Step Two: Depending on the reason for a referral complete any of the following forms that are relevant:

Appendix 1 – Children with social communication difficulties
Appendix 2 – For physiotherapy referrals please complete a physiotherapy history sheet
Appendix 3 – For OT and Physiotherapy referrals please also send completed the teacher and parent/carer questionnaires for school aged children or teacher and parent/carer questionnaires for pre-school age children .

Please view the Motor Skills – Handbook for Referrers and Sensory Handbook for Parents.

Appendix 4 – For a paediatric referral for children with suspected ADHD only for children over 5 years old (please complete 3 separate forms):

– Advisory information for referrers before considering a referral for ADHD
– Parent SNAP form
– Teacher SNAP form
– Woodview Appendix 5 – Referral for for Children’s Community Nursing Team
From the 1st April 2020 this service is now being provided by St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust however the telephone numbers have not changed.

Step Three:

Please submit the completed referral form electronically.

For all single service referrals sent to:

Community Paediatrics
bchft.haltonpaedsadmin@nhs.net