This is a document about explaining privacy from the Canadian Down Syndrome Society. I can’t now find it on their website, although it is on the above link as well, so I am reproducing it in this document.
Welcome to the Bright Futures SEND Transitions Hub
A lot changes, or starts to change, for Disabled young people when they reach 16. What happens in the next few years will be the foundation of their adult life. There are options to be considered, choices to be made and so many decisions affecting every part of their life.
The way forward is not always clear. The Bright Futures SEND Transitions Information Hub is a resource to help you navigate this new landscape. Curated by Transitions Advisor, Sue Robson, there is a large collection of documents, articles, links to information and resources that can help.
This resource was made possible by generous funding from City Bridge Foundation.
Information and resources about post 16 educational placements and employment options, including info about skills and qualifications, EHCPs, and transport options for post 16 and post 18 young people to their chosen college.
This section has information and resources about benefits for disabled people, including PIP and UC; and making plans for the future to protect the finances of your vulnerable young person
This section has information about healthcare options for a young adult with disabilities
This section has a variety of articles, guides and editorials on SEND transitions topics that don't quite fit into the other sections!
Everyone should be able to live independently with choice and control. This section has information and resources about housing and living options for disabled young people
Feeling connected to your community and having social interaction is an important part of life. This section offers information about social activities, staying safe and sex and relationships
The transition from children to adult social care can feel overwhelming. This section outlines what you can expect, the processes and how to ask for what you want.
The documents in this category are the notes I work from when presenting workshops. The notes are comprehensive but are subject to frequent small changes as I learn new things each time I present a workshop!
This is a link to the NSPCC website to the page about talking PANTS. This is a guide to helping children and young people keep safe from sexual abuse. This guide is also known as the ‘underwear rule’.
This is a list of the money and assets that are taken into account when a claim for Universal Credit is being assessed.
This is a link to page on the AfC local offer about Short Breaks Funding and from this page you can apply online for the funding. From this link you can also see more links to further short breaks schemes and funding.
Some years ago Contact had a document about direct payments (DP) to pay for social care for children. There doesn’t seem to be a current document but there is still plenty of information on the website. I still have a copy of the 2014 document and can email it to you on request. We must, however, be aware that some information may not be current.
This document gives an overview of what a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard (DoLS) is and when it might be used. A DoLS can only be used where the young person is subject to high levels of care and supervision but does not have capacity to consent to those arrangements – usually in residential care or hospital.
When a person is deemed not to have the mental capacity to make a decision any decision taken must be in their best interests and this is a term given meaning in the Mental Capacity Act. The information in this document comes from a training course available on an NHS training website.
A mental capacity assessment doesn’t have to be formal or recorded in formal way, especially for day to day decisions. However, your young person may have an assessment carried out in a more formal way with the results recorded more formally and it can be helpful to see what that might look like.
A guide from Mencap about using the Mental Capacity Act and how it affects parents and disabled young people. It is written with disabled people with more complex and profound needs in mind.