Making Valuing People Happen

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Getting a Life Kent
Dee Watson Valuing People Now Delivery
Manager Kent County Council
Kathy Melling Employability Development
Manager Kent County Council
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Getting a Life is a three-year cross government
programme that aims to identify what needs to
happen to ensure that young people with severe
learning disabilities leave education and go on
to achieve paid employment and full lives.
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The Position in Kent

• Kent County Council Members Review
• Kent Transition Protocols
• St Nicholas School Project
• Year 9 Person Centred Reviews pilot at Valence
  School
• Sustainable Employment Project in Kent

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Whos involved
Valance School St Nicholas School
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Kent Transition Protocols
To make sure that young people with complex
needs making the move from adolescence to
adulthood receive the support they need, are
involved in all decision making processes and
achieve the outcomes they want. To provide a
best-practice framework for all professionals who
work with young people who have complex needs
that sets out our policy, their responsibilities
and agreed roles in the transition process,
timelines and paperwork so they can work together
effectively. To set out when and how
information should be shared between agencies and
help with strategic planning and arranging and
paying for services in the future.
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St Nicholas School PCP Project
St Nicholas is a community day special school
providing education for 177 children and young
people who have special educational needs aged
between 4 and 19. For the past 6/7 years having
been developing their own person Centred Planning
tool that they have used from yr 9 forward.
Valence School - Person Centred Reviews
Valence School is a Local Authority funded
Special School for students with disabilities and
complex medical needs in Kent. The school offers
day and residential places for up to 100 students
aged from 5 to 19 Over the past 3 years this
school took part in a national pilot of Person
Centred Reviews (yr9 forward) and has now adopted
this process across all age ranges in the school.
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Sustainable Employment Project in Kent
This is a partnership project between the Further
Education sector and supported employment to
ensure that greater numbers of learners with
learning difficulties and/or disabilities move
into sustainable employment. It is funded
through the LSC as part of the regional
implementation of Learning for Living and Work.
Kent Supported Employment
This service is part of Kent County Council,
supporting people with a disability to find and
keep work and supporting employers to recruit
and retain staff with a disability and enabling
them to understand the business benefits of a
diverse workforce.
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What are we doing?

• Project manager and Board
• Working with 30 young people (yr 9 ) to have
  Person Centred Reviews and Plans Plans will be
  reviewed regularly
• Looking at ways of raising aspiration in schools
• Supporting diverse work experience
• Looking at how curriculum can change
• Bringing Supported Employment into schools and
  colleges
• Increasing levels of self directed supported
• Supporting Agencies to work together
• Looking to make funding more effective

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Getting a Life Kent

• Any Questions?