Supporting Transitions from children's services into adult services
Our aim
We aim to provide a process that will enable each young person who has, or is suspected of having, a learning (intellectual) disability, to transition smoothly into adult services, and to identify any obstacles to achieving a good transition so as to work on solutions that will overcome or work around those obstacles.
We use the definition of Transition provided by the Association for Real Change - Scotland:'...the period when young people develop from children to young adults. This is not a single event, such as leaving school, but a growing-up process that unfolds over several years and involves significant emotional, physical, intellectual and physiological changes. During this period young people progressively assume greater autonomy in many different areas of their lives and are required to adjust to different experiences, expectations, processes, places and routines."
Transitions Oversight Group
To help achieve this aim, our 'Transitions Oversight Group' meets twice per school term, to ensure that young people from 14 years of age with a known or suspected learning disability are on-track to have a good and planned transition out of school, and that their known needs will be met as well as possible. Consent must be given by the young person's parents or legal guardians before they will be added to the discussion list. Schools are responsible for ensuring that consent has been given.
The Transition Oversight Group is made up of representatives from Statutory and Further Education, and Health and Social Work representatives of NHS Ayrshire's South Ayrshire Community Learning Disabilities Team.
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