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Making plans for leaving school and thinking about the
future is an exciting thing for most young people to do.
But the challenge of moving from youth to adulthood can be
especially daunting for disabled young people and their families
because of the changes involved in how they are supported.
Kent County Council wants to improve the process of change for
disabled children. While there are already strong processes in
place for this transition, the people involved have told KCC that
some aspects need to be strengthened.
KCC and its partners have developed a new set of protocols, or
ways to work, called Kent Transition Protocols. These will help
young people and their families have a better experience of the
move to being supported by Adult Social Services.
The protocols have three main aims:
- to make sure young people with complex needs who are moving
from adolescence to adulthood get the integrated, continuous
support they need
- to make sure young people are involved in decision-making and
get the outcomes they are looking for through planning and services
designed for the individual
- to establish when and how information should be shared between
agencies and to help with strategic planning and commissioning
services for the future
Adolescence should be a time of opportunity for young people and
should be a positive experience as they take steps towards
adulthood and the processes set out in Kent's Transition Protocols
have been developed to help disabled young people achieve this.
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