Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council

Health for Children Looked After

You will be offered a Health Assessment when you are first looked after.
This is your chance to talk to our doctor or you own doctor about your health.
You can choose whether you see a male doctor or a female doctor if you tell your social worker before they make the appointment.

While you are looked after you have the right to good health care and all children and young people should have a medical examination on becoming accommodated and every year after that. This includes dental and eye care.
When you are able to make reasoned choices of your own, (usually when you are in secondary school) or when you are 16, you can decide whether or not to have medical or any other treatment.