June 2016
SEN Services
SENCO TrainingPreparing forAdulthood
SEN Code of Practice Chapter 8:Preparing
for adulthood from the earliest years
This chapter sets out how professionals
across education, health and social care
should support children and young people
with SEND to prepare them for adult life,
and help them go on to achieve the best
outcomes in employment, independent
living, health and community participation.
Key Points:
•Local Authorities must ensure that the EHCPlan review at Year 9, and every reviewthereafter, includes a focus on preparingfor adulthood.
•All schools have a statutory duty to ensurepupils from year 8 to 13 are provided withindependent careers advice
•That the Local Authority must name theCollege in the EHCP by 15 March prior tothe September start date
Development of Preparing forAdulthood and Transition
•Transitions event at Victoria Hall, Saltaire onthe 20 May 2016 attended by 80 schools,colleges, health service and local authorityrepresentatives.
•Agreement to hold a sub group ofrepresentatives of schools and colleges todevelop the preparing for adulthoodpaperwork and transitions process, held on10 June 2016.
Management of PFA Reviews –Year 9
The annual review in year 9 will include an element ofpreparing for adulthood; schools are requested to focus on:
•What is the young person to achieve for the rest of theirtime in school?
•What is the young person hoping to do when they leaveschool?
•What help or advice is the young person likely to need tomake an informed decision about choices after school?
•Any other relevant information e.g. travel training,independent living skills, functional skills.
Management of PFA Reviews –Year 10
The annual review in year 10 will include an element ofpreparing for adulthood the focus is:
•Learning and Employment Related skills
•Interpersonal skills
•Independence, Life skills and Community Living skills
•Health and Psychological Well Being
•In addition:
– the young person/parent will make a preference forPost 16 provision
–future actions to be taken including the involvement ofother agencies and providers e.g. College in the year11 review.
Management of PFA Reviews –Year 11
•The annual review in year 11 should be held in theAutumn Term and the Preparing for AdulthoodConversion Annual Review paperwork should becompleted. The College or identified destinationshould be invited and attend the review to ensure theEHCP (PFA) includes the needs, outcomes andprovision for Post 16.
•In cases where the intended destination is the currentor another school the Preparing for Adulthoodpaperwork must be completed.
•SEN preference form completed.
Actions to support Preparingfor Adulthood Transition
•Local Offer site to be reviewed forCollege provision and offer
•Colleges to receive a list of all youngpeople in Yr9 onwards with range andprimary need to support planning ofprovision
•Directory of School and College staff tobe pulled together and circulated/BSO.
Actions to support Preparingfor Adulthood Transition
•Integrate PFA into the annual reviewdocumentation
•Add preference to the annual reviewpaperwork
•All Year 11 annual reviews are held inthe Autumn Term
•Consultation with Colleges Jan/Feb –options to be specified in the EHCP.
Next Steps: completed by24/6/16
1.Update all annual review and preparing foradulthood paperwork
2.Alignment of areas of need to PFA to beavailable on BSO (Nazam Hussain, EP)
3.Bradford Schools on line to be updated anda new PFA Review area to be in place
4.Directory of school and college staff to bepublished
5.Inform colleges of yearr 9 onwards pupildata.
6.Prepare transition information for 2017