What is a Transition Plan?
When your child is in Year 9, a Transition Plan will be drawn up as part of the Annual Review. The Transition Plan looks at your child’s needs as adult life approaches. It is updated at each Annual Review meeting until your child leaves school.
Who will be involved?
The school:
- to provide information about learning programmes to support your child.
You and your family:
- to give your views on what you would like for your child after he or she leaves school.
- to say what practical help you may need.
- to decide how you can support your child in developing personal and social skills needed in adult life.
Your child:
- to express his or her needs.
- to indicate what he or she would like to do after leaving school.
The Connexions Service:
- to take responsible for making sure the Transition Plan is carried out. (Connexions Personal Advisers provide information, advice and guidance for all young people between 13 and 19, whether they are at school, in further education or in or out of work. A Personal Adviser must attend the Year 9 review and all following Annual Reviews. The Connexions Service should assist a young person and their family in identifying the most appropriate post-sixteen provision.)
Social Services:
- to ensure arrangements will be made for any assessment under the Disabled Persons Act 1986.
- to act on behalf of a young person who is in public care or who is a ‘child in need’.
Health Service:
- to provide advice on the services that are likely to be required.
There may be other planning meetings to oversee progress on the plan. School staff should keep you fully informed.
Further Information and Support
For further information about Annual Reviews or Transition Plans contact the SENSS team, Wiltshire’s parent partnership service based at or your child’s schools for a copy of the DfES publication: Special Educational Needs – a guide for parents and carers. You can also order this by phoning 0845 602 2260, quoting the reference number DfES 0800/2001, or you can view it on the DfES website TeacherNet.
