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Transition for young people, Sutton

Summary

Project aimed to develop an integrated unit and seamless transition for young people with disabilities, moving from childrens’ into adults’ service provision.

Description

The project created a new role of project co-ordinator, in order to bring together a range of agencies to work together in new and integrated ways both across services and across the child/ adult service divide. The role also had responsibility for identifying and developing new systems that would support integrated working and ensure a more effective service based on identifying and tracking the needs of individual children, so that they would not "slip through the net".

Outcomes

• A range of agencies including health, social care and Connexions developed greater awareness of each other’s role and responsibilities
• Parents and carers felt reassured and supported
• A data base was created which has helped underpin better services tailored to the individual need so of the child, by mapping provision and tracking the child’s progress
• Improvements in external inspection reports

Themes and Issues

• Difficulties in amalgamating or integrating "paperwork" across different agencies
• Difficulties in truly integrating service across children’s and adult services within the Local Authority
• Increasing separation between the social work role for children and for adults
• Transitional, "start up" roles require different skills and expertise than those needed to embed a service.