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The committee to consider the scrutiny review into the transition of young people with assessed needs , from children’s services to adult services in Haringey.

(Report from Independent Member of the Committee – Agenda item 7 )

At the previous meeting of the committee it had been agreed that information be considered on the relationship between Children and Adult Social Care services. We now considered an Overview and Scrutiny Committee commissioned review into the transition of young people with assessed needs, from children’s services to adult services in Haringey which had been completed in March 2010. The committee were advised that successful transition planning is crucially dependent on collaboration between children and adult services. Well planned transition improves clinical educational and social outcomes for young people. We learned that Haringey has a well established multi agency approach to transition planning which involves young people and the professional organisations which they will deal with. The scrutiny review put forward a number of recommendations but the report did not touch upon what happens to vulnerable children assessed as having a high threshold of need i.e. those with child care plans, experiencing domestic violence or involved in a gang culture and how they do or do not pass from Children’s services to Adult Services. The independent member of the committee recommended completing a scoping exercise with the assistant director for safeguarding in order to report back to the next committee meeting on how the committee can investigate the levels of responsibility for high threshold vulnerable children . They would look at  how much contact they have with children’s services and see if this progresses through to adult services or another service.   Past cases can be referred to in order to track the contact with services and find the eventual outcome for the child into adulthood.

RESOLVED

1. That the report be noted.

2. Agreed that the committee consider, at their next meeting the scope of a review into how the committee can investigate the levels of responsibility for high threshold vulnerable children. This will involve examining the contact they have with services and the impact this has on their outcomes.