Community Paediatrics

We are a multi-disciplinary team consisting of community paediatricians, nurses, specialist practitioners, psychologists, family support workers and healthcare assistants. We work together to ensure that every contact counts for the children under our care.

We provide assessment and support for children with the following specialist needs or conditions:

• Developmental assessment: We see pre-school and school-age children for developmental assessment when there are significant concerns regarding their development or possibility of severe disability.

• Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): We provide multi-disciplinary specialist assessment along with speech and language therapists, psychologists and occupational therapists for preschool children.

• Physical disability: We provide initial assessment and ongoing support along with physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech and language therapists.

• Sensory impairment: We provide multi-disciplinary and multi-agency clinics for children with hearing and visual impairment, jointly with specialist teachers, speech and language therapists and orthoptists.

• Down Syndrome clinic: We provide developmental support for children with Down Syndrome.

All families requiring the Specialist Community Paediatric service will have had an Early Help Assessment, which is a tool that any healthcare professional who knows the child or young person can help to complete. This enables the identification of the child or young person and their family’s needs and to provide the most appropriate services for support. All referrals must come through this early support pathway (for pre-school children) or early help pathway (for schoolchildren).

Appointments are provided by the most appropriate member of our multi-disciplinary team through a combination of face-to-face clinics, telephone, virtual (through Attend Anywhere video platform) and home visits.

Clinics are held at the Child Development Centre, City Care Centre, Thorpe Road, Peterborough PE3 6DB.

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For information on services available to support young people in their transition into adult services please see the links below:

• Preparing for Adulthood | PfA | Home Page
• Council for Disabled Children

A carer is anyone, including children and adults, who looks after a family member, partner or friend who needs help because of their illness, frailty, disability, a mental health illness or an addiction and cannot cope without their support. The care they give is unpaid.

At Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, we value the often life-long support carers provide and recognise them as equal care partners. We want to offer as much guidance and reassurance as possible, to help you in your caring role. You can find general information and support for adult carers, young carers and parent carers by following this link. 

• Paediatric transition service - this service supports the transition of children between 11-25 years with a long-term health condition from child health services to adult health services.

• Children's Speech and Language Therapy - see their 'toolkit' for information and advice on speech, language and communication skills.
• Children's Psychology service (0-5) - see their 'toolkit' for information and advice on eating, sleep, play and challenging behaviour.
• Children's Occupational Therapy   - see their 'toolkit' for information and advice on co-ordination, motor, visual perceptual, sensory processing skills and activities of daily living.
• Children's Physiotherapy - see their 'clinics and services' page for further information on the clinics they run.
• CPFT Carer's page - see their page for information and support available for parent carers, adult carers and young carers.