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Following last year’s approval of the new Social Communication Pathway (SCP) for Manchester, we have been working with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to run a parent/carer session where you will be able to ask questions you may have about this new assessment pathway.

We invite you to join us on 18 March 2021, 10-11am, for a chat with Jo Bromley, who is the Service Lead and Consultant Clinical Psychologist for Carol Kendrick Centre (South Manchester CAMHS).

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Here is some information that we can share with you about the SCP:

The SCP is a multiagency team which assesses social communication difficulties in children and young people. If a young person or their family thinks they might be autistic, this team will make an assessment to see if they meet the criteria for a diagnosis of Autism.
Families or young people are asked to complete a questionnaire to help the team decide if the SCP is the right pathway for them. The young person’s school or nursery is also asked to complete a questionnaire. When both questionnaires are received the multi-agency team meet and discuss the information. If the team feel that an SCP assessment is what is needed then the referral is accepted onto the waiting list.

Sometimes, the team may feel that another service is better placed to meet a child’s needs. For example, it may be that a child seems to have Developmental Language Disorder and need to be seen by the community speech and language team first. The SCP will always let families know what is going to happen to their referral.

We will ensure that any children or young people waiting for assessment by central or north CAMHS will be transferred to the new SCP in their area and will be seen in order of the date their referral was received.

It will be helpful if you can send your question(s) to us by 9am on Wednesday, 17th March so we can send them to CAMHS in advance of the session.