Learning Disabilities and Autism Emergency Response Team for Children and young people

The Learning Disabilities and Autism (LDA) Emergency Response Team (ERT) provides support to children and young people (CYP) with a diagnosed learning disability and/or autism across four Black Country localities: Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

The service offers additional specialist capacity to deliver intensive, short-term support across the Black Country during periods of crisis or increased risk. The LDA ERT undertakes a range of activities aimed at stabilising situations, reducing the risk of deterioration in mental health, and preventing escalation of behaviours that challenge.

Through timely intervention, the service seeks to reduce the likelihood of outcomes such as long-term restrictions of liberty, placement breakdown, or hospital admission.