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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East Kent Mencap

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Jun 17

Fantastic

talk @southern_penny at @TCMargate on

transitional to adult services

in #kent @KentSocialCare @mcchcharity

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