Young People and Preparation for Adulthood

As Transitions Lead in Coventry I introduced:

• A new Transitions Protocol and guidance from staff in Adult and Children teams in Health and Social Care
• A monthly Transitions forum to progress track individual young people 
• Individual Budgets for Young People via Coventry's 2006 Individual Budgets Pilot (Coventry was the only one of 13 sites to include Young People from age 16)
• A new team manager for a virtual transitions team to lead social care transitions practice
• Outcomes Focussed Assessments for Young People
• Direct Payments for Young People and their families
• Routine Continuing Health Care determinations for young people

I was also an adviser to Coventry's 2009 Individual Budgets Pilot for Young People and a member of Coventry's Young People Continuing Health Care Panel.

See also the Independent Futures Case study