From October 2024, the Dynamic Support Register (DSR) duty transferred to Chief Nursing Office, which has improved oversight and clinical governance. This has created an all-age single management structure for the DSR and Care Education Treatment Reviews (CETR) and includes expertise in:
- learning from lives and deaths - people with a learning disability and autistic people (LeDeR)
- complex case management
- health facilitation teams
Communication tools have been developed for GP practices to increase uptake of annual health checks (AHC) for 14 to 17 year-olds with a learning disability and transition mapping and scoping exercise is underway within the ICB. This will ensure that there is correct representation at meetings and panels, and opportunities to link health led work to placed based programmes.
This has enabled the Learning Disability and Autism (LDA) clinical capacity to be strengthened and pathways have been redesigned to ensure there are clear links between functions and teams.
Annual health checks are a key transition point for 14 to 17 year-olds and in March 2024, 66% had taken place and 63.4% have health action plans in place.
From an education perspective, the Post 16 team has supported 79 young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) and identified as having SEND. This included support for careers guidance. This figure represents just over 15% of our current NEET referrals.
In addition to this, the Post 16 team is recruiting to a new post which will aid the responsibility to track all young people and further help to identify those young people who are NEET. We can then intervene as appropriate and help to support these young people back into education or paid employment.