Children and Young People
A young person with special needs and their carers often face some challenging decisions and may need support to help them achieve their goals in their adult lives.
The transition team is a team of social workers who offer assessments to young people who are likely to require ongoing support from adult services when they leave fulltime education.
As a parent, you will
probably first meet a transition social worker when your child is in
year 9 of school. The Annual Review in Year 9 is termed a transition
review, this is particularly important as it indicates the start of a
planning process for the young person and
attention is focused on what the future holds for the young person
after school. The transitions team also attend parents’ evenings.
At
the review people from health, social care agency, and Connexions get
to speak to the young person and their family. Young people can tell us
with the support of their family about the help and support they might
need.
A
copy of the Transitional Plan and review will be forwarded to all those
invited to the meeting and the plan will be reviewed within school each
year. The Transition Team social workers will be invited back to attend
furtherreviews as required.
In
the final year of school or college a social worker from the Transition
Team will contact you again. If the young person requires a service
from adult services the social workers will complete an assessment of
need.
We
will support the young person and their family until the planning has
been completed and the placement is working well. The final task of the
children and young people’s social worker is to transfer the
responsibility for monitoring and reviewing the case to the adult
services. We will always let you know who to contact in adults
services and which service will know about your family’s needsContact
details?
Older People
When
you reach 65 years old then financial and care management
responsibility passes to the Older People’s Service. Usually this does
not mean a change in your living situation or support arrangements,
although it will mean a change in social worker.
Before
becoming 65 years old you are referred to the Older People’s Service
and all the information about you is handed over to them. If you are
known to a social worker in the Disabilities Service there will also be
a joint meeting between them and a social worker from the Older
People’s Service. The Joint Learning Disabilities Service continues to
be available to offer advice to the Older People’s Service on learning
disabilities matters.
Ring your social worker or the Access Team on 0114 273 4908
