Manchester (part of Northwest Consortia Pathfinder)

Manchester is a Preparing for Adulthood SEND Green Paper Pathfinder.

Latest activity

Transition - Making it happen: achieving aspirations for young people with LDD/SEN 15 March 2012

Greater Manchester careers service hosted a conference on Preparing for Adulthood and show-cased lots of good practice in the area. Alasdaire Duerden, from DfE, did a presentation on the SEN Green Paper, Linda Jordan on Preparing for Adulthood and Manchester coalition did a great presentation on the work they are doing to promote rights and inclusion for young disabled people.

http://www.gmchamber.co.uk/events/277

Manchester pathfinder visioning day 30 January 2012

Visioning day 2Manchester held a visioning day to start their pathfinder work and agree priorities.

The day was attended by a wide range of stakeholders including parents, schools, colleges, health, social care, children and adults, and employment. The day set out what they needed to do, what they had learnt from previous good work around Preparing for Adulthood such as Getting a Life, and identified priorities for their pathfinder work.

Manchester's pathfinder governance structure.

Videos from the day:


Julie Hicklin, pathfinder lead, explains what the Manchester pathfinder site will be doing over the next few years and describes the Visioning Day that they held on the 30.1.12.

 


Ann Tarpey, parent, talks about how her involvement with Getting a Life changed her outlook for her son Dominic's future and how raising aspirations needs to be built into the work of the Manchester pathfinder.

 


Laura Upton describes how person centred planning needs to be the foundation for developing the new single assessment, education, health and care plan and how they will be supporting local agencies through their work as a pathfinder.

 


Mark Burton reflects on what Manchester learnt and achieved thorough their work on Getting a Life, person centred transition planning and Project Search and highlights the next steps for that the pathfinder needs to take.