Preparing for Adulthood: How are you doing?

We are delivering a series of 5 free events across England for local areas. These events will share best practice in supporting young people to move into adulthood with equal life chances. They will provide an opportunity for local areas to reflect on what is working and not working locally, map how they are doing and set local priorities for change.

Where

Mon 18th June - Birmingham
Fri 29th June - Bristol
Mon 2nd July - London
Wed 4th July - Leeds
Thurs 5th July - Liverpool

Aim of Event

This event shares what helps young people (including young people with complex needs) move into adulthood with paid employment, independent living, good health and community inclusion. Preparing for Adulthood's top ten messages for local areas, which set out what needs to happen in local areas to ensure that disabled young people lead full lives, will be used to support teams to reflect on what's working and not working locally and identifies priorities for change.

Content

  • Find out what the Preparing for Adulthood programme is about 
  • Know what best practice looks like
  • Evaluate local practice against this and put together an action plan for achieving PfA 10 key messages
  • Chance to network with others and identify approaches to developing cost effective support that is person centred and outcome focussed.
  • Know what resources are out there to help
  • Know what PfA can do to help.

Who is the event for? (Maximum 4 people per event from one LA)

This day provides an opportunity to reflect on current practices and set local priorities, and therefore we recommend that local areas attend in teams of 4, that include senior decision makers from children and adult health and social care, post 16 commissioners, employment agencies and local Family Forum members.

Delegates could include:

  • Local leads and decision makers with a focus on young people with SEN and Disabilities
  • Local authority children's commissioners Assistant Directors of children's services 
  • Assistant Directors of adult services 
  • Service heads of children/adult services 
  • Children and young people health commissioners of
  • Post 16 commissioners
  • Transition champions 
  • Local family forum and young people's forum members

How to register

To register your place(s) contact Centrevents:

Email: info@centrevents.co.uk

Or telephone: 020 8922 1135.

 

Download the event brochure.