Children with Disabilities

The Child Health and Disability Team was established in February 2002. We are a specialist team who believe that a child with a disability is a child first and should be encouraged and helped to access the same services and treatments as other children without disabilities.

Short Break Support for disabled children, young people and their family

The Breaks for Carers of Disabled Children (Wales) Regulations 2012 requires each Local Authority to produce a short break services statement. For more information and to download the statement, visit the Short Break Service pages:

• Short Break Service

Who is the service for?

To ensure the services we provide are given to people with the greatest need, we carry out an assessment, to see whether the child’s disability is substantially and permanently affecting their everyday life.

Our service is aimed at children who are aged between 0 – 18 years and who have:

• a learning disability
• a significant physical or sensory impairment.

Who can make a referral?

Parents, family members and professionals can make a referral to the Team.

What support is offered?

We offer a variety of support including:

• Assessment of need
• Advice and support
• Support work
• Referral to services
• Coordinated Care Packages

For more information, you can contact the Child Health and Disability Team on

Tel: 01446 725202

The office is open from Monday to Thursday 08:30 – 17:00 and Friday 08:30 – 16:30.

If no one is available, you can leave a message on the answer machine and a Social Worker will get back to you.

Disability Index

We also coordinate the Index of Children with Special and Particular Needs. This is a register of children and young people age 0-18 yrs who have a disability or special need and live in the Vale of Glamorgan. It is a voluntary register and familes will receive a quarterly newsletter, full of information about services, events and schemes.

The purpose of the Index is for social services, education and health to work together to help monitor service provision and provide a needs led service. For more information, please visit our Disability Index pages.