Background
As required by by 'Aiming High for Disabled Children', all areas will be delivering on the Core Offer by 2011, including the establishment and implementation of effective arrangements for transition for young people with disabilities from children's to adult services. This project will work specifically on supporting improvements in local transition planning and on working with local partnerships groups to review their progress in AHDC.
Objectives
To deliver the Transition support programme, commissioned via CHaMP by DCSF to ensure delivery of transitions commitments in Aiming High for Disabled Children
- To work intensively with local areas in Band 2 through a recent readiness assessment excercise as determined by the National Transitions Support Programme.
- To collaborate with National Strategies and NCB providing support to band 1 & 3 areas in areas where regional activity is most effective.
- To offer four regional events for areas to work collaboratively
- Regular information exchange with other regional field forces to identify effective practice and solutions to common challenges
Resources
Transition to Adult Life and Services for Children & Young people with complex care needs (.ppt)
(Presentation delivered by David Widdas, May 2008 to West Midlands Children's Leads Meeting)
Aiming high for disabled children: delivering improved health services
Published by NHS Confederation (Sept 2009)
The NHS Confederation, the
membership body for Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in England, has published a new report
which brings together the policy framework and best practice in relation to
health services for disabled children. It draws on examples of services for
disabled children that meet users' needs, respond to the government
agenda and are effective from both a quality and a cost point of view. The
report states:
‘Evidence shows that the best way to commission effective services for
disabled children is when PCTs and local authorities work in
partnership.'
This report follows the Every
Disabled Child Matter's campaign report ‘Disabled Children and Health', launched in June 2009.
Download
at: Aiming high for disabled children: delivering improved health services
West Midlands Regional Transition Workshop
Wednesday 24th February, 2010
This was the second regional workshop which was jointly delivered by the regional leads for CHaMP, the SEN hub and National Strategies. The aims of the day were to:
• Provide a networking, information sharing and development opportunity for those working locally on the transitions agenda
• Bring together areas in offer bands 1,2 and 3 to share good practice and accelerate improvement in all areas
• Provide guidance in the SAQ2 process
• Inform the content and style of future regional events to ensure they add value in driving local improvement
Each area was invited to send up to 5 delegates, including:
• Childrens & Adult service transition leads
• LDD Transitions Champion
• SEN Lead
• Commissioners
• Strategy/Planning Group Chairs
Diana Sellwood`s (Warwickshire County Council) Presentation
Connexions Role in Transition (Wolverhampton) Presentation