What is included

The Fund will pay for therapeutic support and services including but not restricted to:

• Therapeutic parenting training
• Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
• Theraplay
• Filial therapy
• Creative therapiesg. art, music, drama, play
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy(EMDR)
• Non-Violent Resistance(NVR)
• Sensory integration therapy/Sensory attachment therapy
• Multi Systemic Therapy
• Mentalisation Based Therapy
• Psychotherapy
• Extensive life story work with a therapeutic intervention (where therapy is used to help the young person understand and cope with the trauma and difficulties that their life story work might revisit)
• Short Breaks are in scope where they include a substantial element of eligible therapeutic therapies
• Specialist Assessment that meets all of the criteria below:
  • An in-depth assessment of the child and family’s needs with a focus on trauma and attachment, and how this demonstrates the links to the assessment of support needs.
  • Led and undertaken by a qualified clinician(s).
  • For the purposes of the ASF, a qualified clinician would be someone who diagnoses and treats patients; is suitably qualified and is licensed to practice via a regulator such as the Health and Care Professional Council e.g. a trained Clinical Psychologist or Attachment Psychotherapist.
  • Result in a therapeutic support plan for the child(ren) / family.

The following are not in scope of the Fund:

• Standalone assessments for single conditions, e.g. ADHD, FASD, autism, sensory integration, unless they are part of a wider specialist assessment which meets the criteria for the Specialist Assessment FAL i.e. are in depth, covering trauma and attachment, led and undertaken by a qualified clinician and resulting in a therapeutic support plan.
• Standalone specialist assessments, including any baselining specialist assessments, are also out of scope of the Therapy Fair Access Limit.
• A general social work assessment of adoption/SGO support needs remains the responsibility of the local authority/regional adoption agency.