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Case studies

The following case studies show examples of good practice that local areas have been developing through the Transition Support Programme.

 

Case Studies 2011

Central Bedfordshire Council (Senior Transitions Officer)
This case study focuses on Central Bedfordshire Council (CBC) and how it decided to move to the creation and funding of a Senior Transitions Officer (STO) post from June 2010.

West Berkshire (joint assessment)
This case study looks at setting up a joint assessment process for young people in transition in West Berkshire.

West Berkshire Council (school research project)
This case study describes a research project investigating whether there are growing numbers of young people with a range of complex learning and physical disabilities coming through the school system.

Bristol (acute health pathway)
This case study describes the approach taken in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire to develop and improve transition planning for young people receiving secondary acute health care services.

Cambridgeshire County Council (young people with complex needs)
This case study describes how Cambridgeshire County Council is supporting young people with the most complex needs through transition and into adult life.

Cornwall Council (young people consultation)
This case study discusses the findings from a consultation with 16 to 25 year olds with physical disabilities in Cornwall.

Coventry City Council (person centred planning)
This case study described an innovative ‘Try Before You Buy’ scheme informing person centred planning.

Dorset (person centred planning and social networking)
This case study looks at a person centred planning tool that is web based and can be used to support young people through transition. The tool is designed to also support social networking in a safe way.

Essex County Council (looked after young people in out of county placements)
This case study tells the story of agencies working together to support one young person to remain in family based care into their adult life.

Gateshead Council (young people DVD)
This case study describes a project which utilised DVD technology to record the views and experiences of disabled young people.

Halton Borough Council (community bridge builders)
This case study discusses using community bridge builders to support disabled people to access their local community.

Hampshire County Council (participation: young people and family)
This case study outlines the work undertaken in Hampshire to develop greater participation for disabled young people and their families in transition.

Kirklees Council (Cool2Care - personal assistants and befrienders)
A project using the Innovations and Outcomes fund to provide personal assistants to disabled young people over 18 years of age using a national provider Cool2Care.

Leicester City Council (Gateway College)
This case study describes how Gateway Sixth Form College is preparing students for greater independence during adulthood through adopting a holistic approach.

North East Lincolnshire (Person centred planning)
This case study describes how person centred planning is shaping services in North East Lincolnshire.

London Borough of Bromley (health care plans)
This case study describes how LB Bromley is supporting young people from children’s to adult health provision.

London Borough of Havering (Clickstart - accessible information website)
Click start – an accessible information website providing information on transition for disabled young people, their families and professionals.

Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (service users)
This case study describes a three year programme which aimed to improve communication and participation for disabled young people in their service provision.

London Borough of Redbridge (Multi-agency transition planning workshop)
This case study describes a Multi-agency training day that brought together professionals from Children and Adult’s Social Care, Health and Education to plan a way forward for improved joint working.

London Borough of Tower Hamlets (employment opportunities)
This case study looks at how employment opportunities were developed specifically to support disabled young people with sensory impairments by developing a range of support that could lead to meaningful employment. 

Luton Borough Council (learning for living and work framework)
This case study focuses on providing support to young people who may not be eligible for adult services and draws on the case of one young person’s pathway.

Nottinghamshire (person centred approaches)
This case study describes Nottinghamshire County Council using person centred approaches in schools to support transition.

Nottinghamshire County Council (Dawn House School)
This case study discusses Dawn House School and its link with an FE college to provide a supported pathway for young people post 16.

Salford City Council (person centred transition)
This case study describes how Salford City Council is providing a transition service that has a person centred ethos throughout.

Sheffield (transition task group)
This case study describes a multi-agency transition planning group that meet on a regular basis to support operational and strategic transition planning. Appendices 1,2,3,4, 5 and 6.

Shropshire (multi-agency working and joint assessment)
This case study concerns multi-agency working, participation and joint assessment in Shropshire.

South West Region (travel training)
This case study looks at how a number of local areas within a region have developed travel training schemes to support disabled young people to access transport where they live.

Southampton City Council (multi-agency working)
This case study describes a project which sees the beginning of the development of transition processes for vulnerable young people in Southampton.

Sunderland (futures team)
This case study describes the work of the Sunderland Futures Team and their use of person centred planning.

East Sussex (transition service)
This case study is about establishing a dedicated 16 to 25 transition service in East Sussex.

West Sussex (transition information)
This case study describes a project which aims to develop information on transition that makes sense to parents and carers.

Swindon Borough Council (transition database)
This case study describes how Swindon Borough Council and NHS Swindon are working together to develop an integrated multi-agency database for disabled children and young people.

Thurrock Council (work experience)
This case study looks at providing an opportunity for disabled young people in Thurrock to experience opportunities to take steps into employment.

Warwickshire County Council (brokerage model)
This case study describes using a brokerage model to support young people who will not meet FACS criteria for adult services.

Warwickshire County Council (multi-agency transition steering group)
This case study describes how a strategic multi-agency transition steering group draws from forums and transition meetings, and feeds into decision making.

 

Case Studies 2010

City of York Council (post 16 opportunities)
This case study describes how City of York Council is supporting disabled young people through its York Independent Living and Travel Skills Initiative (YILTS).

City of York Council (post 16 opportunities)
This case study describes how City of York Council set up an Opportunities Fair to provide better information about what disabled young peope could do after leaving school.

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (multi-agency working)
This case study describes how Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is using multi-agency working to improve local services and reduce out of borough placements.

Hertfordshire County Council (joint assessments)
This case study describes how Hertfordshire is using the Learning for Living and Work Framework as the basis for joint planning.

Lincolnshire County Council (participation)
The case study describes how the creation of a shadow transition board has ensured that the voice of disabled young people is central to and informs the developing work of the transition service in Lincolnshire.

Nottingham City Council (multi-agency working)
This case study describes how Nottingham City Council has set up a multi-agency transition team with Connexions at the hub of the transition process, overseen by a multi-agency transitions steering group.

Oldham Borough Council (employment)
This case study looks at the development of employment and work experience opportunities for disabled young people in Oldham.

Oldham Borough Council (housing)
This case study describes two different schemes which are helping disabled young people in Oldham to achieve their goals of having their own home, accessing mainstream facilities and living in the community with varying levels of support.

Richmond upon Thames (personalisation)
This case study looks at how a group of young college leavers with learning disabilities in Richmond upon Thames have piloted an innovative way of getting more from their direct payment care package.

Richmond upon Thames (participation)
This case study describes how a voluntary organisation in Richmond upon Thames is helping young disabled people develop training on disability awareness for a range of organisations in the borough.

Suffolk County Council (person centred planning)
This case study describes how Suffolk is embedding person centred approaches in all special schools with the long term goal that person centred planning will be universal for disabled children in the authority.

Thurrock Council (participation)
This case study describes how Thurrock Council have used drama workshops to support students with complex needs learn about transition and how they can make choices about their lives.

Thurrock Council (personalisation)
This case study shows how Beacon Hill School in Thurrock is using a whole school approach to personalisation that includes person centred planning, work experience, personalised curriculums and support into mainstream college settings.

Warwickshire County Council (muti-agency working)
This case study describes how Warwickshire County Council developed a support brokerage model to support young people with autistic spectrum conditions who do not meet FACS criteria.

West Berkshire Council (multi agency working and joint assessments)
This case study describes the progress that West Berkshire Council has made in developing their transition services over the past 3 years. 

 

Emerging good practice

TransMap Case Studies
These case studies are taken from the Council for Disabled Children’s TransMap project in 2008/09. This project set out to identify areas of effective practice in transition and to provide evidence of current practice and developments.

Emerging Evidence from Local Areas
Emerging good practice from local areas is set out in this document under the five overarching themes that are the focus of the Transition Support Programme in Year 2. (13/05/09) 

Advocacy Project for Transition
North Tyneside, with funding from the Transition Support Programme, have commissioned 2 years of advocacy to support young disabled people with their Transition Plans.
(July 2009)