Don't pin all your hopes on the CAB though, you might be lucky, but I had a MIND advocate liaising with my surgery regarding reasonable adjustments and the surgery still refused. I even involved Healthwatch and they are still not budging.
PALS frankly are useless. I have heard of one person who got their complaint upheld and compensation for expenses they incurred due to a crap CAMHS system failing to diagnose their child, but my experience with PALS was awful.
Prepare for your assessment as much as you can, if you can get parental input ensure you have it. If there is no access to parents for whatever reason, try to find someone who knew you as a child who can remember your behaviours. Otherwise, you will have to go on what you remember. It's not impossible to get a diagnosis without childhood history but some clinicians are reluctant. Look at the triad of impairments and make notes of how you believe you fit them. If you have any mental health reports which mention obsessive behaviours, OCD, difficulties in communication or anything relevant they will help. If you come into enough money to get a private assessment you could go for one of those and have the results in time for your tribunal. They cost upwards of £600 though.
Don't pin all your hopes on the CAB though, you might be lucky, but I had a MIND advocate liaising with my surgery regarding reasonable adjustments and the surgery still refused. I even involved Healthwatch and they are still not budging.
PALS frankly are useless. I have heard of one person who got their complaint upheld and compensation for expenses they incurred due to a crap CAMHS system failing to diagnose their child, but my experience with PALS was awful.
Prepare for your assessment as much as you can, if you can get parental input ensure you have it. If there is no access to parents for whatever reason, try to find someone who knew you as a child who can remember your behaviours. Otherwise, you will have to go on what you remember. It's not impossible to get a diagnosis without childhood history but some clinicians are reluctant. Look at the triad of impairments and make notes of how you believe you fit them. If you have any mental health reports which mention obsessive behaviours, OCD, difficulties in communication or anything relevant they will help. If you come into enough money to get a private assessment you could go for one of those and have the results in time for your tribunal. They cost upwards of £600 though.