Welcome to Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service

We support families and children with ADHD

Providing nursing care to young people who have a short or long term nursing need

The children’s continence service supports children from the ages of 4-19 years of age. This covers children with day time wetting, night time wetting and constipations issues.

The Citizens’ Panel gives you the opportunity to have your say, improve and shape children & young people’s services in Essex

The West Essex Community Allergy Service is run by a Paediatric Dietitian and Allergy Nurse, with support from Allergy Champions in the Healthy Family Teams

Essex County Council’s Children and Families Team provides grants from its Family Innovation Fund (FIF).

We provide evidenced-based information about infant feeding and promote breastfeeding

Our multidisciplinary team of health visitors, school nurses and healthy family practitioners support children and families in Essex with parenting and their health and wellbeing

We work with schools to improve the health and wellbeing of pupils, teachers and parents/carers

We initiate an in-depth assessment to potentially rule out or confirm a diagnosis of autism.

The term ‘looked after children and young people’ means children who are ‘looked after’ by the local authority. The aim of the Looked After Children (LAC) Service is to help you with any problems with your health and emotional wellbeing.

We support young people with physical, sensory impairments, developmental and cognitive needs that impact on their daily life

We support children with movement disorders, disability or illness to develop their movement skills and reach their full potential

View and download the relevant referral forms for all the information you need to refer a patient into the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service.

Safeguarding Children means protecting Children and Young People from harm or abuse so they can grow and develop into happy and healthy children. If your concerned about a child please view the Safeguarding page.

The Safer Sleep information and resources in this section provides simple steps as to how you can sleep your baby to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), known as cot death.