This Directorate provides a range of operational services for children and young people:

• Social work services, including child protection and family support services
• Youth Justice Service
• Fostering and Adoption services
• Residential Care
• Family Centre services
• Educare Service
• Health Visiting Service
• School Nursing Service
• Acute medical services
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health services (CAMHS)
• Midwifery Service
• Children's Dental Service
• Orthoptic Service
• Speech and Language Therapy Service
• Paediatric Physiotherapy Service
• Paediatric Occupational Therapy Service
• Services for Children with a Disability