Eligibility Acceptance Criteria 

  • Children and Young Persons aged up to 18 years with a primary presenting need of ADHD, ASD or General Child and Adolescent Psychiatry;

Exclusion Criteria

  • Children with a moderate or severe learning disability (as PUK do not have any specialists within the field of child LD psychiatry)
  • Children within the criminal justice system, including requests for court assessments (as PUK do not have any specialists within the field of child forensic psychiatry)
  • Children whose primary presenting problems are substance misuse (as PUK do not have any specialists within the field of child substance misuse psychiatry)
  • Children whose primary presenting problem is either anorexia nervosa, or bulimia nervosa (as these children require face-to-face services between CAMHS ED teams, local paediatrics, specialist dieticians, specialist therapists)