TRANSITIONS – CHANGE FROM CHILDREN TO ADULT SERVICES
It was brought to my attention in January 2011 that my daughter would be having a
review in May of that year to decide what she would do when she changed from
children’s services to adult services.
I started to look at some of the options that were available and the following is what
I found out.
Please note, government and council policies have changed since then and some of
the persons I contacted may not be the ones presently running these organisations
or departments.
-------------------------------------------------------------Huntingdon Regional College
Sue Craven: Senior Course Leader
Tel: 01480 379212
Pathfinder Course
-----------------------------------------------------------------Cambridge Regional College
Tel: 01223 418200
David Golding
Alison Jones
New to Work
Rosslyn Gay
Contex Programme
Michele Dodsworth Tel: 01223 418504
Roots Course
Context Course
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Cambridgeshire Mencap:
Edmund House, 9 Church Lane, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5EP, Tel: 01223 883130.
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Helen Thurley Community Services Manager
Gardening Help at Anglesey Abbey and at Milton site.
Artworks – Paper Mache sculptures, props for drama events, jewellery making,
music sessions etc
Help at home also respite, residential care and befriending.
Catering at St John’s college Cambridge and Huntingdon Regional College.
Fare Shares Café, Trumpington street, Little St Mary’s Lane.
Adult Respite:
Tracy Mathew
Poplars
58 Station Road Tel: 01223 862390 (01223 232201)
Community Housing manager:
Ruth Pitcher Tel: 01223 883136
-------------------------------------------------------------------------Now: (Opportunities without limits)
Part of the Papworth Trust
Sawston Village College
Tel: 01223 835329
www.owl@papworth.org.uk
Debbie Ellis
Life Skills
Communications Skills
Summer Outings
Horticultural
Recycling
Retail - unit
Jewelry
Maintenance Shop – Bicycles etc.
Café – at church
Use college facilities and sports hall
-------------------------------------------------------------------------Darwin Nurseries:
5 Quy Water
Newmarket Road
Teversham
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Cambridge
CB1 9AT
Tel: 01223 293911
Christine Millar – Vocational Manager – Christine.millar@cpft.nhs.uk
Judi Knutsen, Rosie McMurray, Tonya Taylor Tel: 01223 293911
Part of courses with HRC
--------------------------------------------------------------------------Camtrust:
22 Cambridge Road, Impington, Cambridge, CB24 9NU,
Tel: 01223 236786, web site www.camtrust.co.uk
Further education and a comprehensive introduction to life in the work place in a
relaxed commercial studio that offers print finishing and design services, in
conjunction with Huntingdon Regional College
---------------------------------------------------------------------------Red2Green:
Harveys Barn, Swaffam Bulbeck, Cambridge, CB25 0NA,
Tel: 01223 811662, www.red2green.org
Susan Owen
Have Horticultural/retail service.
Shop at Bottisham Village College.
Affiliated with Anglsey Abbey.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------Rowan Humberstone:
Tel: 01223 566027 www. Rowanhumberstone .co.uk
Abigail
Accredited training and work experience enable people with learning difficulties to
work alongside skilled artists and craftspeople producing high quality artwork.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------Snakehall Farm: (Prospects Trust)
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Tel: 01638 741551 www.prospectstrust.org.uk
Work experience, accredited training and supported employment opportunities in
horticulture and organic market gardening.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Burwellprint:
Tel: 01638 613102, www.info@burwellprint.co.uk
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Voice Ability (Speaking Up):
Vicky Tyas
Tel: 01223 555842, mobile 07985926485, web site www.voiceability.org
(www.speakingup.org}
Vicky.tyas@speakingup.org
People with disabilities to speak up and create positive change in their lives.
Stay safe cards.
Papworth Trust:
Tel: 01480 357200, 0800 952 5000
www.papworth.org.uk
Bernard Sunley Centre
Papworth Everard
Cambridge
CB23 3RG
Employment, Vocational Rehabilitation, Housing, Personal Support, Learning
For Life and Work.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------Disability Cambridgeshire:
Peter Wetherell
Pendill Court, Papworth Everard Cambridgeshire CB23 3UY Tel: 01480 839192
Also At Advice Centre Addenbrookes Hospital Tues 10am – 4pm & Fri 1pm – 4pm
Tel: 01223 217397 www.disability-cambridgeshire.org.uk
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Please note: Disability Cambridgeshire have a handbook which is called ‘Go For It’.
This covers everything you need to know listing all the organisations involved.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Brokers:
Tony
Cambridge Brokerage Network
Edmund House, 9 Church Lane, Fulbourn, Cambridge CB21 5EP, Tel: 01223 883149
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------All of the above need looking into. These are the organisations that in one way or
another are going to supply your child with support when they go from child to
adult support. Go and visit these organisations. Go to the college open days and
make an appointment with others and discuss what opportunities there are for your
child. Please note: some courses are 4 days a week where as others may only be 2
days a week.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Pinpoint:
This organization is a must, much more than very useful.
Lynn Powell
www.pinoint-cambs.org.uk
pinpoint is an independent information, support and parental
involvement network run for parents by parents in
Cambridgeshire.
pinpoint was set up in 2007 in response to parents’ requests for:
• an independent source of information they could trust
• help for parent support groups
chances to get involved in making decisions about services
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Adult Review:
Before you go to the review know exactly what you want for your child and the
reasons why. There will be representatives from various organisations at the
meeting and your child will be discussed. The attention will then turn to you and
you will be asked what you think. Do not think about what you want. Tell them this
is what you want.
Transitions/Connections Personal Advisor:
Mike Francis
Tel: 01223 7125576
Mike Francis now works for the LLDD Team
Additional Needs Advisor
LLDD Team Box SS1015
Babbage House
Castle Hill
Cambridge
CB3 0AT
Tel: 01223 728144
www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk
www.youthoria.org
Require Improving Choice Paperwork – approximately a 29 page document that has
to be filled in to start the process. This will partly be filled in by the
transitions/connections team. You will then be asked to fill in your part. This will
then go to your childs school and the organization that you have chosen for their
adult choice.
You will be contacted by the Transition Service.
Office of Community and Adult Services
Disability Service
Transitions Service
SCO2304
Scott House
5 George Street
Huntingdon
PE29 3AD
Claire Bailey/Karen Chopping
Transitions Team Managers
Tel: (01480 372689
www.Transitions.Enquire@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
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This department will help you with your education and personal budgets that will
have to be planned for your child.
This can be for a personal assistant (buddy) any adult respite etc.
Respite can be supplied by the following.
County Council:
Adult Respite:
Jane Vinson
40 – 44 Russell Street, near the Botanical Garden
Tel: 01223 712261
Cambridge Mencap:
Adult Respite:
Tracy Mathew
Poplars
58 Station Road Tel: 01223 862390 (01223 232201)
Personal Assistants can be supplied by
Cool 2 Care:
Rachel Thomas Tel: 07850 709446
New contact
Melanie
Tel: 07889 405947
This organization will supply the people but you will be responsible for paying the
PA. This will entail wages, NI, and all the other responsibilities of employment. If the
PA can not turn up for any reason then you are responsible for finding a
replacement. You will handle the money for their payments.
You can use Penderels Advisory Service to assist you in this.
Penderelstrust.org.uk
Personal Assistants can be supplied by
Mencap:
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Ron Brewer
Jon.Brewer@Mencap.org.uk
Mencap will supply personal assistants and handle all payments.
This is if you do not want to handle payments for this yourself.
TRANSITIONS JOBS AVAILABILITY:
I went to my daughter's opportunities night at her school on 3rd November 2011.
These are the people that I spoke to with regards to companies that might have
jobs for children like my daughter.
I spoke with Mike Francis from the Transitions Team about how his
department get involved with this subject.
He gave me the following information. There is a person who can be contacted
namely Clive Diver on 01223 545090 who is the Disabled Employment
Advisor.
Obviously this is through the job centre.
I spoke with Sue Craven who is in charge of the disabilities section at
Huntingdon regional college. She informed me that a person “Gavin Cox” is in
charge of the employment facilities at the college.
He is in charge of the Bridgeway learning and development for students with
disabilities.
They have contact with companies such as Waitrose, Sainsbury and Tesco etc.
They use these companies along with others for work experience and if the
person likes the experience they could go on to be employed by these companies.
This department is in a building along side the college and runs courses to
prepare students for the big outside.
Please note they use organisations such as Papworth through Owl to give
students experience in cafes and garden Centre’s etc.
Bridgeway – Huntingdon Regional College
Gavin Cox 01480 379100 Ext 217
Richard Ashford and Mark Hawking 01480 379100 Ext 219
I spoke with Steve Mayes Area Manager, Learning for life and Work with the
Papworth Trust
He informed me that basically they use the Owl organisation to provide work
experience at their café or such businesses as garden Centre’s etc.
As regards such organisations as Sainsburys etc., if parents or students like to
contact him they would see what they could do.
He said that they are going to try and expand on this aspect of employment
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I spoke with David Clark from Cambridge Mencap. They provide support to
students to gain paid employment.
David Clark
Helen Thurley – Community Services Manager.
Cambridgeshire Mencap
The number I have is 01223 883130
Alison Jakes Cambridge Regional College – 01223 418507
Supportive Education and Projects.
Partnerships
Work Experience.
I did not speak with Alison I found out from the college that she is the lady to
speak to. She was not at the college that day.
It seems to me that children with my daughters problems will have to go through
the above organisations and many more not listed.
They have contacts with various companies, but I would imagine that this could
be very limited according to the child’s capabilities. It is something that the
parent and the child will have to arrange with the education organisation or
Transitions Team that they are dealing with at the time.
The following might be of interest and give you information on what has
happened with us. This I am sure will not be everything that we will come
across.
When children are in the process from moving from childrens services to adult
services most parents do not know how much of their time it will involve.
In the last four weeks we have on my daughters behalf been swamped with
forms from various government departments.
We have received a Fairer Contribution assessment form to fill in. (From
LGSS Operations Directorate)
A form for Employment and support allowance. This can be done over the
phone. (From the Job Centre)
Employment and Support Allowance:
To claim over the phone. 0800 023 48 88
A form for Limited Capability for work. (From the Job Centre Plus)
A Personal Indicative budget and financial contribution. (From the LDP
Partnership) (You have to supply a plan as to how this money is going to be
spent)
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A form for Claim for employment and support allowance - extra money-severe
disability premium (From Job Centre Plus)
With these forms you also have to supply copies of the following.
Birth Certificate
Statements from Bank/building society accounts.
Disability payments
Income support
Carers allowance
Housing costs
Etc, Etc.
We have had the Transitions direct payment people in quite a few times and
this entails having to find out what you want for your child as regards personal
assistants and things like respite.
We have had to talk to people or visit all the places involved in this and still it
is difficult to come to a decision because the options do not only entail the
present, but what is going to happen when they are 21 to 25 years of age.
This means thinking ahead for things such as independent supported living .
This side of the direct payments will also include payment for the fifth day of
the week for my daughters education.
Therefore you have to contact various other organisations to try and get
something for this fifth day or what ever your arrangements are..
We had to go to the Regional College and sit down with the course leader and
work out which four days my daughter will attend college, this will then tell us
which day the extra education has to be arranged for.
This means that the direct payments for the education side of all this has also
to be arranged and how your child is going to get to these places.
We applied to the Job centre for ESA. We did this over the phone and this
was with the Northhampton office.
On talking with the Cambridge Disability Association apparently there are
different options on this, so, we appealed to have this changed, we found out
that in actual fact it was through the Peterborough office.
We had a new form for Disability Living Allowance come through. We had to
ask for help on this and we managed to get copies of assessments on my
daughter, which is her Transitions Assessment and any Respite ones as well.
Then an Individual education plan. These will help if sent along with your
application.
Parents should get the help of the Cambridge Disability Association or the
British Brokerage Association as you will need guidance.
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