{"id":4130,"date":"2021-02-04T15:57:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/irl\/?page_id=4130"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:29:30","slug":"groups","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs\/oxon\/ndc\/groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Local support groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are local support groups within Oxfordshire that you can access whilst you are waiting for an assessment:<\/p>\n

Bicester Autism\/ ADHD<\/h2>\n

www.bicesterautismadhd.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Is a local support group which consists of parents of special needs children. They meet a few times a month and meetings are very informal. Everyone is welcome whether there is a diagnosis or not. Their aim is to raise awareness and increase understanding in the community.<\/p>\n

Oxfordshire Family Support Network<\/h2>\n

Oxfordshire Family Support Network \u2013\u00a0www.oxfsn.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

OxFSN provides information, advice and support to families of children, young people and adults with learning disabilities<\/p>\n

Support at school<\/h2>\n

If the school believe further funding is required to meet your child\u2019s needs, they can start the EHCP assessment process without a diagnosis as the behavioural and educational needs are already existent and current legislation highlights how the process should not be delayed whilst waiting further assessments; part of the process also requires an educational psychologist assessment which can occur whilst you are waiting for the wider neuro-developmental assessment.<\/p>\n

Oxfordshire has a strong local area partnership committed to ensuring that children’s and young people needs are identified and supported as early as possible.<\/p>\n

Oxfordshire SEND local offer<\/a>\u00a0provides a map of what to expect at what stage, including what is available to schools to support your child or young person; this support and process can and should be started as soon as possible, once there are possible concerns, and is available to those without a diagnosis.<\/p>\n

The tools available to schools to support children with (possible) neurodevelopmental conditions were developed in collaboration with different agencies, including CAMHS.<\/p>\n

Oxfordshire ADHD protocol<\/h2>\n

Oxfordshire has developed the ADHD protocol which highlights behavioural management as the first line of treatment for ADHD symptoms; school can follow the framework, if not already doing so.<\/p>\n

Social care<\/h2>\n

Sometimes additional help is needed for you, your child and family to help cope with the demands that are being faced by having a child with additional needs, this additional help may require the support of other services.<\/p>\n

Community Professionals can make a referral into social care by using an EHA (Early Help Assessment) or as a parent you can contact the MASH (Multi Agency safeguarding hub) \u2013 0345 050 7666, where a MASH worker will support you to identify a trusted professional who could lead on an EHA. The MASH worker will ask you, as the parent, for consent to pass this information to your area LCSS (Locality and Community Support Service) to support the professional with the EHA process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are local support groups within Oxfordshire that you can access whilst you are waiting for an assessment: Bicester Autism\/ ADHD www.bicesterautismadhd.co.uk Is a local support group which consists of parents of special needs children. They meet a few times a month and meetings are very informal. Everyone is welcome whether there is a diagnosis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3796,"parent":3200,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-service.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4130","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197522,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4130\/revisions\/197522"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}