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The Aiming High for Disabled Children (AHDC): Better support for families review found that more needed to be done to coordinate services for disabled young people in transition to adult life, and to ensure young people and families can access high quality information at key points. To address this, the AHDC programme announced £19m over the CSR period (2008–11) to develop a Transition Support Programme (TSP).
The TSP will seek to raise the standards of transition support and provision and achieve greater consistency in all local areas. The programme consists of two main elements.
- The national transition support team will coordinate the work with LAs, primary care trusts (PCTs), regional advisers and existing experts.
- A combination of direct grants and regional adviser activity will support change at local level.
The national transition support team, a coalition between the Council for Disabled Children and partners, has three main roles:
- drive and shape the programme in local areas through work with regional advisers, disabled young people and their families
- engage with and exchange good practice in transition through websites, targeted information sheets and other resources to help build capacity
- identify the support needs of local areas and work in partnership with regional advisers, the DCSF and the Department of Health to improve transition practice.
TSP: Year 2 offer to all local areas
All local areas will have access to a wide range of resources and support in year 2 of the Transition Support Programme (TSP). The support will include one-to-one work, project planning, networks, developing good practice and resources. The national transition support team, along with the National Strategies and the Care Services Improvement Partnership, will be leading this work.
Following on from the completion of the self-assessment questionnaire in January 2009, the national transition support team has developed a series of support offers for local areas to best use the resources available and make sure every local area benefits from the TSP. The structure of these offers is set out in Year 2 offer: Transition Support Programme.
In addition to the work outlined above, all local areas will receive £10,000 to be used to support the improvement of transition. This includes offsetting the cost of working to complete the self-assessment questionnaire (this will be sent out in September 2009 with a December 2009 deadline) and develop practice on participation of disabled young people and their families.
Twenty-four local areas will receive an extra direct grant of £37,500 to develop best practice and improve support across transition in other areas. The 24 local areas are: Birmingham, City of York, Cornwall, Coventry, Devon, Dudley, Gateshead, Hertfordshire, Leicester City, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, LB of Redbridge, LB Richmond upon Thames, North Tyneside, Northamptonshire, North East Lincolnshire, Nottingham City, Oldham, Rotherham, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Suffolk, Thurrock, Warwickshire and West Berkshire.
The 24 local areas that receive direct grants will work directly with the national transition support team to further develop effective practice.
All other local areas will be offered a range of support and will be contacted by National Strategies and the Care Services Improvement Partnership to look at what will be most helpful to each local area.
If you would like more information about TSP and the national transition support team, visit the Transition Support Programme website.
Information, advice and guidance
The Transition support set of documents includes:
- A transition guide for all services
- Transition: Moving on well.
Associated documents
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Last updated on 13/05/2009
