Aiming High for Disabled Children (AHDC) - Transition

The Aiming High for Disabled Children programme is seeking to improve the transition process for young disabled people moving to adult life. This resource contains information, advice and guidance for practitioners at all levels seeking to improve transition support for disabled young people and their families.

Effective transition for disabled young people requires early planning to ensure that services provide a continuity of support that is focused on individual need. Disabled young people should be fully consulted in accessing their preferred services.

Difficulties have persisted with transition to adulthood as services have had differing criteria for access and differing transition points. Children's trusts are now bringing together services for all children.

Joint commissioning, underpinned by pooled resources, will ensure that those best able to provide the right packages of services can do so. Children's trusts are able to provide services to disabled young people up to the age of 25.

These resources will enable professionals to understand the transition process and will support the delivery of the forthcoming Transition Support programme.

To help you select the resource most appropriate to your needs, we have provided some detail of the contents here:

A Transition Guide for all Services  an overarching view of all the services that need to work together to ensure appropriate support for disabled children throughout each stage of their life. (Hard copy guide available from Prolog on 0845 60 222 60, quoting 00776-2007DOM-EN.)

Transition: Moving on Well good practice guide on effective transition from children's to adult services for young people with complex health needs.

Future Positive - a resource pack for people working with disabled young people leaving care.