Effective transitions for young people with complex needs
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Effective transitions for young people with complex needs who may challenge services as they approach and enter adulthood
IRAS ID
194684
Contact name
Helen Bown
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
National Development Team for Inclusion
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 11 months, 28 days
Research summary
Despite drives to move people with learning disabilities from high cost, poor outcome residential institutions, figures show that there are a significant number of young people with complex needs entering these (often out of area) residential units as they transition from children's to adult services. Despite broad consensus that this is not desirable due to the dual issues of both poor outcomes and high costs, these patterns continue.
This research will generate evidence to inform commissioning and service delivery practice in order to improve the outcomes for young people with complex needs who may challenge services, and reduce the risk of service breakdown which leads to them living in high cost residential units.
It will do this by exploring the routes and pathways that lead to young people living in residential units in order to identify key factors in the transitions from children's to adult services. It will also identify factors which lead to positive outcomes for young people.
There are two key elements to the work:
1. A retrospective study of a group of young people aged 18-25 whose services are expensive/breaking down/broken down. What triggers/factors/events happen resulting in poor outcomes / expensive (often out of area) placements?2. Action research to identify positive practices, where good person centred approaches are used to plan transitions for children and young people aged up to 25 years. Does this make a difference to the services and support that young people get offered, the outcomes they are experiencing and the cost to children’s and adult social care services?
REC name
Social Care REC
REC reference
16/IEC08/0001
Date of REC Opinion
17 Feb 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion