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KCC Lifespan Pathway - Update
Changing the way we work to improve
Transition from Children’s Services to
Adult Services
Mark Walker, Assistant Director, DCALDMH
Social Care Health and Wellbeing
What is the Lifespan Pathway?
The ‘lifespan pathway’ is a way to describe how people move from one service to another as they grow up and
get older.
Lifespan Pathway
Why are we doing it?
• Support for disabled children and young people aged 0-25 is seamless, for them and their families. Families have a better experience of transition.
• Joined up services between Social Care, Health and Education (Education, Health and Care plans). This is building on existing strong partnerships and solid performance.
• Making the most of commissioning services together (all ages). Better planning for services for young people.
• Make sure resources are used wisely and in the same way. Leading to a reduction in residential placements.
• Make sure structures and processes are used in the same way across Children and Adult Services
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Assessment and Design Phase including research from
other Local Authorities
Other LAs’ transition
models
BarnetC& YP 0-15
Transition 16-25
Adults 26+
Darlington
A Life Stages Service
(0-25 and 26+)
Medway Children and young people
with disabilities and medical conditions
0-25
Blackpool CouncilPost 16 Transition
Team for young people
with SEND
Essex
16-21+ Transition
Service
South
GloucestershireIntegrated 0-25
Service
Wolverhampton
Council0-25 Disability Team
East Sussex
16-25
Transition
Service
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Current Pathway
Tran
siti
on
Disabled Children Service
0 - 18
Older People and Physical Disabilities
18+
Community Learning
Disability Team18+
Learning andphysical disabilities
Pathway from 3 April 2017
Disabled Children Service
0 - 15
Young People’s Team 16-25
Years
Adults Complex Disability Team
26+ Years
• Become an adult• Leave school/college• Move home• Get a job• Become settled
NEW TEAM NEW TEAM
Learning andphysical disabilities
Learning andphysical disabilities
Learning andphysical disabilities
Developing Lifespan Pathway
• Maintaining current relationships – The Young Person’s
Service will maintain the excellent working relationship in
place with colleagues in Health, Education and Children’s
Services including Safeguarding.
• Health partners - are reviewing their operational
boundaries to align to those of the CCGs. They are
formally consulting staff on changes to align to the new
Lifespan Pathway.
• Commissioning – developing a commissioning strategy to
meet the needs of people with a disability throughout their
lifespan, linking in with the Learning Disability Integrated
Commissioning Project, resulting in services being
commissioned from 16yrs and beyond a person’s 18th
birthday
Developing Lifespan Pathway
• Consultation – Consultation took place with Parent/Carer Representative organisations, Health and Education Colleagues, Commissioning and KCC staff prior to the proposed restructure. A review will be set with the same stakeholders 6 months post implementation.
• Open Events - Following a very successful open event attended by 350 young people and carers across Kent in February Half Term 2017, a follow up is planned in October 2017 to gain young people’s views about ‘What's going well’ and ‘What needs to change’
• Culture Change - Key Concepts training has commenced, these are the first events to support cultural change within the 16-25 Pathway, focusing on the differences between adults and children's legislation, charging policy for adults, direct payments and access to resources. As well as an opportunity to network.
Developing Lifespan Pathway
• In- House Provision – undergoing an assessment to
determine requirements to meet the needs of the Lifespan
Pathway and gaps within the market
• Short Breaks – Offer has been re-designed so that the
pathway and the commissioning of more flexible services
for young people promotes access to services to ensure
young people’s needs are met
• Systems – one system for 0-25 pathway services. Building
and testing the extended system will take place during
Spring/ Summer 2017
The Care Act and the Children and Families Act want us to plan 0-25 and especially smooth the transition at age 18.
So we will have a new Children and Young Person’s Service with:
• 4 Disabled Children teams across the county, 0-15
• 4 Young People’s teams, 16-25
• Area Teams: West Kent; Dartford, Gravesham, Swanley & Swale; Ashford Canterbury Coastal & South Kent Coast & Thanet
0-25 Service
Children & Young Persons Management
Structure
0-25 Assistant Director
Mark Walker
0-25 Area Manager
WK
Sharon Howard / Alan Thorne
Disabled Children
WK Team Manager
Claire Lawrence
Young People
WK Team Manager
Alan Thorne/ Jacqueline Kazemian
Disabled Children
DGS&S Team Manager
Chris Pitchers
Young People
DGS&S Team Manager
Chloe Williams
Disabled Children
WK Principal OT
Gill Crouch
0-25 Area Manager
EK
Roger Smith
Disabled Children
Ashford, Cant & Coastal
Sonya Winder
Young People
Ashford, Cant & Coastal
Ross Parkin
Disabled Children
SKC & Thanet
Sandra Power
Young People
SKC & Thanet
Lisa Hutchinson
Disabled Children
EK Principal OT
Jo Jackson
WK Support Officer
Rachel Walker
EK Support Officer
Claire Holness
• And a continuing Adult Service
• 4 Adults with complex disabilities teams
(West Kent; Dartford, Gravesham,
Swanley & Swale; Ashford, Canterbury
Coastal & South Kent Coast &Thanet)
• Young people with complex physical
disabilities will be included in the new
teams
• An all age In House provision Unit
0-25 Service
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Jun 17
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