Beth Tarleton writes -

The Social Care Institute for Excellence has recently launched the outputs from a review of the information needed by young people with learning difficulties, their families and supporters at transition. The Road Ahead? project was undertaken by the Norah Fry Research Centre, University of Bristol with young people with learning difficulties from North Somerset People First and the Home Farm Trust, a national service provider.

The project had three parts: a review of the relevant literature; an evaluation of the content of resource materials (like information packs) that have been developed to support young people and their families during transition; focus groups with young people, families and supporters to find out their information needs.

The six outputs from The Road Ahead Project can be downloaded from www.scie.org.uk/tra. 

The outputs include:  A full report, a systematic review of the literature on transition for young people with learning difficulties, a review of the resources available to support transition, an executive summary of the key findings, an easy summary of the key findings and an easy report by the North Somerset People First Transition Project Team.  There is also a website giving details of the work undertaken by the Transition Project Team from North Somerset People First.

Beth Tarleton

Norah Fry Research Centre
University of Bristol
3 Priory Road
Bristol
BS8 1TX
Tel 0117 923 8137
Fax 0117 946 6553
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Beth.Tarleton@bristol.ac.uk