Year 1 Self Assessment Questionnaire
Year 1 Self Assessment Questionnaire
The deadline for completing the year 1 SAQ has now passed. 147
local areas completed the SAQ by the deadline and every local area
that submitted has been sent a copy of their completed SAQ. If you
have not received a copy of your local area’s SAQ please email us
on TSP@ncb.org.uk.
Relevant documents (Year 1 SAQ)
SAQ analysis briefing -
short paper with some headline findings from the SAQs and
information about how they were analysed.
SAQ report: full version - Coming soon
Old documents (Year 1 SAQ)
SAQ - Word version
Guidance
notes
Longer
Explanatory Notes (corrected on 16/12/08)
Frequently
Asked Questions
The SAQ will be completed online.
However a printable word version is available to use in meetings to
help in developing answers for the SAQ and taking stock of local
planning. If you are the nominated person in your area to complete
the online SAQ, please email tsp@ncb.org.uk to receive the web
link.
About the SAQ (Year 1 SAQ)
One of the first tasks of the national
transition support team is to build on existing evidence and form a
picture of what transition services in all local areas are
currently delivering to disabled young people and their
families.
Therefore, we have developed a Self Assessment
Questionnaire (SAQ) for local authorities to complete in
partnership with Primary Care Trusts, partner agencies, disabled
young people and their families. All local authorities will
be sent a letter telling them how they can access the
SAQ.
The purpose of the SAQ is to identify and
determine how well each local area is working towards or beyond
minimum standards for transition.
The information received from the SAQ will
help us to assess and identify the type and level of support each
local area needs to improve their transition services. The national
transition support team will then provide a report to the DCSF,
with recommendations of what level of support and funding is needed
in each local area.
The SAQ will be carried out each year of the
Transition Support Programme and each local area will be assessed
on current practice and evidence.
The SAQ is based on the key principles set out
in both the DCSF’s A Transition Guide for All Services
(2007) and the Department of Health’s Transition: Moving On
Well guide (2008). These guides were designed to illustrate
what minimum standards in transition support are. The aim of the
Transition Support Programme is to look beyond minimum standards
and into creating flexible, individualised, responsive and creative
services to enable disabled young people to meet their full
potential.
Download a pdf of A
Transition Guide for All Services.
Download a pdf of Transition: Moving On
Well.
The deadline for completing the
questionnaire is 30th January 2009.
We appreciate this timescale is short. This is
to ensure we have information from each area to plan for year two
grants and support allocations of funding. More time will be
given in future years.
Before you start
To help you gather the answers you need, we
have created a
word version of the questionnaire. Before you complete the
online questionnaire, use the word document to collect your
responses.
Please make sure everyone with responsibility for transition in
your local authority and PCT is in agreement with the answers you
will be submitting. Please also refer to the Guidance
Notes, FAQs
and Longer
Explanatory Notes before getting started.
If you have any questions or need advice on how to complete the
SAQ, please contact the ntst information
line on 0207 843 6348 or tsp@ncb.org.uk