Transcript Making Valuing People Happen

Getting a Life
Kent
Kathy Melling
Dee Watson
Employability
Development Manager
Valuing People Now
Delivery Manager
Kent County Council
Kent County Council
Getting a Life is a three-year cross government
programme that aims to identify what needs to happen
to ensure that young people with severe learning
disabilities leave education and go on to achieve paid
employment and full lives.
The Position in Kent
• Kent County Council
Members’ Review
• Kent Transition Protocols
• St Nicholas School Project
• Year 9 Person Centred
Reviews pilot at Valence
School
• Sustainable Employment
Project in Kent
Who’s involved
Valance School
St Nicholas School
KENT LEARNING
DISABILITY
PARTNERSHIP BOARD
Kent Transition Protocols
• To make sure that young people with complex needs making the
move from adolescence to adulthood receive the support they need,
are involved in all decision making processes and achieve the
outcomes they want.
• To provide a best-practice framework for all professionals who work
with young people who have complex needs that sets out our policy,
their responsibilities and agreed roles in the transition process,
timelines and paperwork so they can work together effectively.
• To set out when and how information should be shared between
agencies and help with strategic planning and arranging and paying
for services in the future.
St Nicholas School PCP Project
St Nicholas is a community day special school providing education
for 177 children and young people who have special educational
needs aged between 4 and 19.
For the past 6/7 years having been developing their own person
Centred Planning tool that they have used from yr 9 forward.
Valence School - Person Centred Reviews
Valence School is a Local Authority funded Special
School for students with disabilities and complex
medical needs in Kent. The school offers day and
residential places for up to 100 students aged from 5
to 19
Over the past 3 years this school took part in a
national pilot of Person Centred Reviews (yr9
forward) and has now adopted this process across
all age ranges in the school.
Sustainable Employment Project in Kent
This is a partnership project between the Further Education
sector and supported employment to ensure that greater
numbers of learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities
move into sustainable employment. It is funded through the
LSC as part of the regional implementation of Learning for
Living and Work.
Kent Supported Employment
This service is part of Kent County Council, supporting
people with a disability to find and keep work; and
supporting employers to recruit and retain staff with a
disability and enabling them to understand the business
benefits of a diverse workforce.
What are we doing?
 Project manager and Board
 Working with 30+ young people (yr 9 +) to
have Person Centred Reviews and Plans
Plans will be reviewed regularly
 Looking at ways of raising aspiration in
schools
 Supporting diverse work experience
 Looking at how curriculum can change
 Bringing Supported Employment into
schools and colleges
 Increasing levels of self directed supported
 Supporting Agencies to work together
 Looking to make funding more effective
Getting a Life
Kent
Any Questions?