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Changing Places toilets are different to standard disabled toilets with extra features and more space to meet additional needs. Each Changing Places toilet provides:

A height adjustable adult-sized changing bench (wall-mounted or free-standing)

A tracking hoist system

Adequate space in the changing area for the disabled person and up to two carers (Minimum of 3m x 4m/ 12m2 in new builds and 3m x 3m/9m2 in existing buildings)

Centrally placed toilet with room either side for carers
Changing Places toilets have sufficient space for the disabled person and their carer thus allowing carers themselves to use the toilet, something which they cannot do in a standard disabled toilets.

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In Lincolnshire they provide a range of services to help children, young people and their families with their emotional wellbeing and mental health. To ensure that young people and their families get the right support at the right time, by the right team, all routine referrals are triaged and/or screened by practitioners in our Children and Young People Access Team.

The Children's Continence Service provides services to children across Lincolnshire (with a Lincolnshire GP). They see children with day time wetting from age 3 to 19 years, Nocturnal enuresis from age 5 to 19 years, and constipation and soiling from 0 to 19 years.

Children will be offered tier one support for constipation, daytime wetting, developing toilet skills and night time wetting by the Health Visitors or the Children and Young Peoples Nurses depending on their age. If Tier 1 staff assesses a need for tier 2 they will then conduct that referral.

For more details on the tiers of support please contact the team.

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Improving services for deaf children and young people in Lincolnshire.
Children's Hearing Services Working Groups (CHSWGs) "chizzywigs" bring together people from different services who support deaf children and young people and their families.

These include audiologists, teachers, speech and language therapists, social workers, local charities and representatives from the National Deaf Children's Society.

They aim to make sure that different services work well together and provide the best possible support for deaf children and young people, and their families. CHSWGs operate across England, Scotland and Wales, and there's one in Lincolnshire

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Lincolnshire County Council works closely with NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) and on behalf of them has taken on the lead commissioning responsibility for children and young people's mental health services. More recently this has also been expanded to cover aspects of commissioning related to services for children and young people (CYP) with learning disabilities (LD) or autistic children and young people.
As Commissioning Manager for this area of work, Kevin Johnson and his team oversee the reviewing, procurement/contracting, and contract management of a number of emotional wellbeing and mental health support services for CYP, including:
• Kooth Online Counselling Service
• Healthy Minds Lincolnshire
• Mental Health Support Teams
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) • including the CAMHS LD team, CYP Eating Disorder Service, Crisis and Enhanced Treatment Team and CYP Complex Needs Team.
More recently the team are also involved in supporting:
• The development of the CYP Keyworking Service – providing advocacy and support to CYP who are autistic and their families who are at high risk of admission to hospital because of their mental health
• Review and improvement of the CYP autism diagnostic pathway as part of a piece of work led by Lincolnshire Autism Partnership Board looking at the all-age autism diagnostic pathway
• Development of pre- and post-diagnostic autism support for CYP, adults and older adults as part of a piece of work led by Lincolnshire Autism Partnership Board.

Childrens Links provides a range of services to support families for inclusion.

They have a fantastic toy library in Lincoln with a range of specialist sensory toys available to hire and an inclusive play area.

Also they offer support to parents/carers to help them back into work, have a ranging of training programmes, inclusive nurseries and they operate a voluntary sector forum to support those in the sector to support local families.

Who we are:
Choices college is a Specialist Post-16 College providing a person-centred, individually tailored Supported Internship to young adults with learning difficulties, disabilities and/or Autism. Through the Internship, 16-24 yearolds gain work experience, develop independence skills and increase their employability.

What we do:
Our service is bespoke, offering tailored support to each Intern, and employment opportunities are matched to the individual's skills.Choices college aims to empower Interns and build their confidence as individuals in the workplace, while also offering life experience beyond their home and school environments.

The programme aims to provide young people with the skills and opportunities to enable them to progress into paid employment at the end of the yearlong internship programme, working within a wide range of public, private and independent sector departments/ areas.

As well as supported internships, we offer work experience to those 16 and above with an EHCP. Please ask your school to contact us about this.

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Community Dental Services in Lincolnshire is a specialist dental provider for residents within the County (excluding North and North East Lincolnshire) with significant medical, physical or mental health disabilities, or people with severe dental anxiety. We are a referral only service, and our acceptance criteria and referral form can be found on our website.

They pride themselves on providing high quality care and treatment for children and adults whose dental care cannot be managed by a General Dental Practitioner. They accept referrals from all healthcare providers, however any referrals for dental anxiety reasons must come from a Dentist.

The Oral Health Improvement Team are part of the service co-ordinating, facilitating and supporting a range of evidence-based interventions to reduce oral health inequalities and promote better oral health.

Oral health is everyone's responsibility; therefore, training is available to health and non- health professionals.

Sessions are tailored to meet the requirements of specific teams e.g. health visiting, teachers and many voluntary sector areas.

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County Care is widely regarded as one of the most respected, innovative providers of support for people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health throughout Lincolnshire , Surrey, and West Sussex.

They are committed to providing high quality, person centred services which promote the independence, choice and inclusion of the people they support.

They have an excellent track record for the delivery of services which are truly personalised.
The services provided are

Day Services Monday-Friday 9am-4pm at their centres in Holbeach and Skegness

Registered with the Care Quality Commission

Support in the community for Children and Younger Adults
Head Office is situated in Skegness.

Following on from the isolation that Covid caused Curo -lincs decided to launch a new service offering mental health support with a difference. They provide support either one to one or within small groups, horticulture, nature crafts and animal assisted therapy. Utilising nature in a variety of ways to encourage people to interact and build confidence. People are naturally multi facetted so why not offer multi facetted ways to engage and support them? .

The animals are a natural therapy. They have trained therapy dogs but also use their free range farm animals. Clients will learn about them and how to care for them, using a trust technique to develop a unique bond with the animal. This promotes a structure that promotes self worth, empowerment and achievement. It's imperative that both animals and people are not ‘forced’ into engaging.
The Paws-itivity dog cafes run a similar structure enabling people to attend without pressure to talk to them, people can talk to our dogs whilst building confidence to interact with the group. Normally with a piece of cake and coffee.
They also offer nature craft groups, where people can chat and do their own or one of their crafts. These are inspired by nature and so far they have done heartfelt hens, positive painted rocks, Boston pompom birds, gonks and needlecrafts.

Their projects are predominantly facilitated by volunteer peer mentors who use their farms to provide health, social and wellbeing services for vulnerable people including: adults & children with disabilities, mental health issues and those experiencing isolation;

Activities may vary depending on the person/groups attending and the time of year, but the following are some examples of things they do:

• Mindfulness, Arts, Crafts and photography for wellbeing
• Horticultural activities such as: planting wildflower areas, planting and maintaining orchards, gardening, growing vegetables, building edible gardens. Hedge laying. Pond dipping, harvest the vegetables,
• Learn about the animals, including feeding, cleaning and providing enrichment.
• Build an enrichment activity for the animals such as hurdles, ramps, beds.
• Groom the pigs and goats, Dust chickens for mites, Clip goats’ hooves, Collect the eggs
• Take the goats for a walk.
Group activities such as: men’s group, women’s group, dog cafes, coffee mornings. Come along to one of the community social groups where they bring one of their dogs and you are welcome to bring.