Transition Step 1: Starting the Process
Transition usually starts around the age of 14 with a review where your social worker or you responsible transition worker attend the assessment and they start to discuss what future would be suitable for your child. Most school places go up to 19 and there is the possibility now to have education or a college […]
Visiting Homes 1: When and Who
Visiting as many homes as you can is an essential part of the decision making process you need to go through at Transition. In many cases, Home From Home Care is the first visit parents have made so they are fairly new to the process. Here’s three questions we get asked by nearly every […]
Isolation
I met a mother not so long ago who told me about her son who had left school three years previously and was still living at home aged 22. This young man has complex needs and a high degree of Autism. She was tearing her hair out about him; she simply didn’t know what to […]
Shaking Hands
I’m 59 years old, my daughter has been in one of our homes fantastically well supported for the last 5 years and yet I found myself getting up on the stage to talk to 120 parents going through the transition process and my hands were shaking. They weren’t shaking because I was nervous about talking […]
Residential Care vs Supported Living
Paul de Savary’s thoughts on the current push by Local Authorities to move individuals with complex needs out of residential placements and into supported living environments. Go to the webpage But don’t just take my word for it. Hear from Steven why he thinks it is important to have a home manager ‘on the floor’. […]
