Children and Young peoples Plan - Disabled Children and Young People

Making York the best place where children and young people can grow up.

	Below are the key messages that came out of the consultation around issues affecting Disabled Children and Young People. If you want to know more about what people told us you can download a longer summary for the 'disabled children and young people' section.

Key Messages

There is a need for a whole community response needed not just services.

There is a need for better transitional services for young people. This would include:

• More clarity about options available; 
• Support from a specialist team
• Better support and advice for moving on to college and variety of provisions at college;
• Better advice and support into employment which would include work experience and volunteering opportunities; 
• Integrated services for social care and health.
• Individualised budgets

At younger ages, there is a need for better information of what community support is available There is a need for support to ensure inclusion in all mainstream services (especially some smaller services) so they can be more accessible. This might include more disability awareness training.

Parents spoke about better advice and support needed beyond 5 years old, and support at all ages to be flexible to reflect individual circumstance. They also felt the need for support to parents through individual and collective advocacy.

A need for a Multi-agency Review of Speech and Language Services (following the national Bercow review).