Shropshire's Community Health team works with children and young people resident in Telford and Wrekin and/or Shropshire aged 0 to 18 years old and their families.

They also have arrangements to see some families from Powys and other areas by prior agreement with commissioners from these areas. 

We work within other paediatric teams (for example at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, the Princess Royal Hospital, or Robert Jones Agnes Hunt Hospital) and with some teams within the Shropshire Community Health Trust such as the Community Children's Nursing Team (CCNs).

Sometimes we meet together with colleagues from other local children's services and work on shared projects, or deliver training or supervision to other professionals.

The medical teams we work with are:

• Diabetes
• Oncology & Haematology
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Chronic Constipation (Telford only)
• Muscular Dystrophy and other neuromuscular conditions
• Children receiving services from the Community Children’s Nursing team (CCNs)

There is also some limited capacity for referrals where there is a need for a focused, discrete and short-term intervention preparing phobic children for a planned medical procedure. This work excludes detailed assessment/intervention for other difficulties falling outside our targeted paediatric remit.

The Paediatric Psychology Service (PPS) is not a mental health provision and children with primarily mental health needs would be seen by the "Bee-U" service (Emotional Health and Wellbeing Services - formerly CAMHS) rather than this service.

The PPS service does not accept referrals for areas other than the targeted ones listed above (see our Paediatric Psychology Service page).

Children or young people with learning disabilities should also be referred to the Emotional Health and Wellbeing Services (Bee-U) which are part of the Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust.