Transitions Team
The Transitions Team, who work with young disabled people who are likely to need support as adults, has commissioned pinpoint to help them develop the involvement of the parents and carers who use their service.
A parent carer forum has been set up and two parent representatives have been elected to sit on the Transitions Partnership Board. The Transitions Team have planned a series of 'Talk about Transitions' events to improve participation with parents, and to provide parents with the information and support they have told the Team they need.
The Transitions Team has been selected as being in the top 3 in the country for its participation practice and is the running for a national accolade. To find out more, ask us for a copy of the 'Transitions Team: a year of working in partnership with parents' powerpoint presentation (unfortunately it is too big to download from our website). See below for update...
Transitions Team win accolade
Claire Bailey, Joint Manager of the Transitions Team, has sent us this message about the Team's recent accolade.
Another Triumph for Transitions
In the cold and icy weather of a Cambridgeshire November professionals from Children’s and Adult Services met together in partnership. What caused this milestone in the County Council History?
It was nothing but the legendary “SAQ3”, formally known as the Transitions Self Assessment Questionnaire Year 3. A tool developed by the Transitions Support Programme under Aiming High for Disabled Children to test our cooperation and collaboration in the best interest of our disabled young people as they become young adults.
Key partners including Cambridge Community Health Services, Connexions, START, the Disabled Children’s Team and at the core of it all the Adult Based Transitions Team worked together to gather information. This was completed in collaboration with Youth Parliament MPs from Voicability and Parent Carers from pinpoint’s Transitions Parent Carer forum, to set out an action plan that would enhance the transfer of young people with disability into the adult world. All with the guiding hand of Richard Holland, Transitions lead for Children’s services.
Karen Chopping and Claire Bailey, joint Team Managers, are the lynch pins of the core Transitions Team that this work revolves around. Not only have they achieved highly commended in the Skills for Care Accolades awards, the Oscars of Social Care, for workforce development but have now, following the SAQ 3, been awarded Development Stage level 4, which places the county in the top 10% of Local Authorities in the country for the support it provides to young people in transition.
Claire Bailey, in one of her brief moments of quiet said “I am so proud of all those professionals who have worked alongside us to forge the path for young people but most of all I am proud and grateful to the parents and young people who have shown us the direction we needed to go. The Transitions Team are a pleasure to work with. Since my involvement began with them, they have developed from a small team of dedicated workers to an outstanding team of committed and enthusiastic workers and I include all the folks who help make up our virtual network in this.
It has been an amazing twelve months for the Team with the accolades nomination and award, the inclusion of our workers and young people in the BBC Inside Out Television programme and finally the inclusion of one of our young people and her mother in the new Cambridgeshire Self Directed Support DVD ‘It’s all about Us’. The promotion to level 4 by the Transitions Support Programme for our processes is just the cherry on the cake”.
Rod Craig, Chief Executive, stated “the progression reflects the hard work, dedication and passion for a good transition service of the Transitions Team and all their partners”
Well done to all in the Transition Team – it’s nice to have a good news story in hard times.”
Find out more about transitions on our transitions page.
