Threshold

Services use thresholds to decide which requests for help they will take on. Being told your child does not meet the threshold means the service judged the level of need to be below the line where they step in. It does not mean your child needs no help. Many local areas publish a thresholds document setting out these levels, so it is worth asking whether your area has one, and you can ask the service to explain which level they placed your child at and why. This is different from a diagnostic threshold diagnostic threshold The point at which an assessment team decides a child's difficulties match a recognised set of criteria. Being below it does not mean the difficulties are not real. Read the full definition of diagnostic threshold , which is about whether a child's difficulties meet the criteria for a diagnosis.