Transition Planning

Transition Plans are prepared for all young people with a Statement of Special Educational Needs, from the age of about fourteen years (year 9). The purpose of the plan is to describe how all the people concerned will help the young person to make a successful transition from school to adult life. The plan will be reviewed annually, at the statutory review.

In September, a list of Year 9 pupils requiring a Transition Action Plan will be sent to schools and the other agencies involved.

Schools should also alert all agencies involved at the beginning of Year 9 and should organise a meeting for the summer term. The Personal Adviser would identify who is currently involved with the young person. The preparation for the meeting can then be carried out during the year, ready to inform the Transition Review in the summer term. Reminders should be sent out by the school, to those invited six weeks before the meeting

Schools should send a list of proposed Year 9 review dates to the Local Authority by the autumn half term schools should request views from parents/carers and professionals, including health and other agencies involved. Copies of any reports received should be sent out two weeks before the review meeting bu the school.

Schools/settings host the Year 9 review, attended by the young person and their family, school representative, Personal Advisor, Named Social Worker or and any others schools. The team in which the personal advisor is located will send a list of young people who may wish to start college at 16 to a named person at the college

The transition action plan should parents contain information regarding possible post 16 placement and what young people and their carers are hoping for in the future. There will need to be clarity about who needs to take action by what date. Young people and carers will need to agree that information.

 

After the Year 9 Review

  • in the subsequent years, the Transition Plan is reviewed and amended if appropriate, at review meetings arranged in the same way as previously
  • in Year 11 the Transition Plan is updated and circulated
  • if the young person is to remain at school in Year 12, the statement continues potentially until Year 14 (this usually is in the cases of special schools)
  • if the young person does not remain in school in Year 12, such as college placements, the statement ceases