0-25 – 0-25 team Local Authority
ACO – Area Commissioning Officer
ABI – Acquired Brain Injury
AD – Anxiety Disorder
ADD– Attention Deficit Disorder
ADHD- AttentionDeficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADOS – Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule
ARFID – Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
AS – Adult Services
ASD- Autism Spectrum Disorder
ASC – Autism Spectrum Condition
APD – Auditory Processing Disorder
BPD – Borderline Personality Disorder
C/Ch – Child(ren)
CA – Care Act/ Carers Allowance
CAFA – Children and Families Act 2014
CAMHS – Child, Adolescents, Mental Health Services
ChA – Children’s Act
CCW – Community Care Worker
CIN – Child in Need
CLD – Complex Learning Disabilities/ Difficulties
CP – Clinical Psychologist
CS – Children Services
CSDPAÂ – Chronically Sick & Disabled Persons Act 1970
CYP – Child/ Young Person
DCS – Disability Children Services
DDA – Disability Discrimination Act
DIAS – Devon Information Advice Support Services
DISCO – Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication
D.I.S.C.O – Designated (i) Social Care Officer
DLA – Disability Living Allowance
DLD – Developmental Language Disorder
DMO – Designated Medical Officer
DPCV – Devon Parent Carers Voice
DS – Downs Syndrome
EH – Early Help
EHCP – Educational Health Care Plan
EP- Educational Psychologist
EqA – Equality Act 2010
G&T – Gifted & Talented
GDD – Global Developmental Disorder
HLPÂ – Higher Learning Potential
HCA – Health and Care Act 2022
IBP – Individual Behaviour Plan
ICP – Intimate/ Individual Care Plan
ICS – Integrated Children Services
IEP – Individual Education Plan
LA – Local Authority
LADO – Local Authority Designated Officer (In charge of Safeguarding within LA)
LD – Learning Difficulty/ Disorder (Learning Disability is an Intellectual Disability. Learning Difficulty is something that impacts learning, including Specific LD)
MASH – Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub
MCA– Mental Capacity Act
NAS -National Autistic Society
ODD – Oppositional Defiance Disorder
OT – Occupational Therapist
PDA – Pathological Demand Avoidance
PDD – Persuasive Development Disorder
PFA – Preparing for Adulthood
PIAS – Plymouth Information Advice Support Services
PIP – Personal Independence Payment
PEO – Provision Evaluation Officer
SA – Social Anxiety
SCD – Social Communication Disorder
SENCo – Special Educational Needs Coordinator (every school should have one)
SENCoP – SEND Code Of Practice
SEN – Special Educational Needs
SEND – Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
SENDIAS – Special Educational Needs Information Advice Support Services
SEN.Reg – SEN Regulations 2014
SPD – Sensory Processing Disorder/
SpLDÂ – Specific Learning Difficulty/ DisorderÂ
SM – Selective Mutism
SS – Social Services
SW – Social Worker
TAC/F – Team Around a Child/Family
VPD – Visual Processing Difficulties/ Disorder
YP – Young Person