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Young People with Disabilities

Continue the development and the awareness raising of the Young Carers Service.    

Additional funding obtained to 2011 to pilot work with primary schools in South Central area of Newcastle, focusing on early identification, intervention and prevention particularly relating to substance misuse and mental health issues.

Young People with Long Term Health Conditions

Disabled Children and young people.

• The launch of the Aiming High for Disabled Children children transition programme in Oct/Nov 2008.
• Personalisation- invitation to tender for individual budgets (IBS) for local authorities in Nov/Dec 08- opportunity to build on Newcastle's early experience of IBs.

Young People with Drug and Alcohol Problems

Children and young people who do not make a successful transition into adulthood will have less successful adult lives.

Young People with Drug and Alcohol Problems

Young people with disabilities - Research carried out by the Home Farm Trust and Norah Fry Centre (2002) showed that a fifth of young people with learning difficulties left school without a transition plan and that the quality varied significantly.

Young People with Disabilities

Article 12 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states:

"State parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views, the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child, the views of the child being given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child."

National policy

Main publications setting and advising national policy include:

Whilst there are no specific targets relating to child adult transition the Good Practice Guidelines developed by Newcastle outlines six key requisites for achieving a successful transition:

1. There is commitment

2. Young people and families are fully involved in the process

3. There is effective strategic planning and commissioning