There is an invisible crisis happening in children and young people’s community and mental health services, as well as in the wider system of support for special educational needs (SEN).
Services intended to help families and improve their lives have not been resourced to keep pace with the increasing need for assessment and support for children with neurodevelopmental conditions. It has created an adversarial, disjointed system that is fighting against itself, robbing children of huge chunks of their childhoods as they wait in limbo for a diagnosis or assessment and failing to intervene early enough – meaning children are missing out on major developmental milestones.
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