Taking part in adult education/community learning.
Completing outcomes in EHC plan.
Voluntary work.
Knowing how to access support from the Job Centre post-education.
Paid work or higher education.
Understanding benefits.
Independent living
Arranging potential independent/supported living options.
Planning other living arrangements.
Understanding correspondence/bills.
Continuing to develop independent living skills as part of a study programme.
Community inclusion
Accessing adult social care post-18.
Maintaining friendships outside of an educational setting.
Health
Managing health appointments.
Cognition and learning
Employment
Young person (YP) consolidates or completes learning. They achieve outcomes to enable progression into:
further or higher education
employment
adult education or community learning
YP understands processes and support in relation to job centre provision.
YP understands and accesses benefits where applicable.
Independence
Young person (YP) continues to develop independent living skills through appropriate study programmes.
YP understands correspondence/bills and manages them appropriately.
YP has planned living arrangements in place.
Community inclusion
Young person (YP) shows awareness of the role of adult social care and can access the service as required.
YP has developed increasing social awareness. This includes understanding and reasoning skills to promote social and emotional wellbeing and reducing vulnerability within the community.
Health
Young person (YP) manages health appointments/interventions.
Communication and interaction
Employment
Young person (YP) demonstrates appropriate communication and interaction skills necessary to engage in:
paid work
voluntary work
higher or further education
Independence
Young person (YP) demonstrates the communication and interaction skills to enable them to arrange independent/supported living options as applicable.
Community inclusion
Young person (YP) demonstrates the ability to communicate with professionals from adult social care to access help as required.
YP can interact effectively with others within a range of social situations to make and maintain appropriate reciprocal friendships and relationships. This includes online.
Health
Young person (YP) can access information relating to relevant health services to maintain good health.
YP can take responsibility for dental, medical and optical appointments. They can communicate their needs and interact with appropriate staff to arrange these.
YP has the communication and interaction skills necessary (in the context of individual circumstances) to articulate health concerns/needs to relevant health professionals during appointments.
Social, emotional and mental health
Employment
Young person (YP) has acquired the necessary social skills to interact with employers/clients or academic staff. They can function effectively in voluntary work, paid work or further or higher education as required.
YP demonstrates appropriate communication and interaction skills to develop relationships with peers within the workplace/education environments. This helps to promote emotional wellbeing.
YP understands and manages their feelings and emotions. They access appropriate strategies or assistance as required.
Independence
Young person (YP) can make positive choices about their own living arrangements. They consider circumstances and possible options best suited to facilitate social and emotional wellbeing.
Community inclusion
Young person (YP) has developed appropriate social skills to maintain friendships.
YP can show awareness of social conventions and boundaries. They are able to negotiate these to maintain personal safety while in the community.
YP has an awareness of boundaries and social conventions with a range of relationships and social situations. This includes online.
YP is able to recognise potential abusive and exploitative behaviour in others. They will be able to make safe choices.
YP can understand risks associated with drugs and alcohol. They adhere to legal restrictions with regard to these substances.
Health
Young person (YP) engages with self-care routines to maintain appropriate levels of personal hygiene. This includes their environment.
YP can make safe choices in relation to sexual health.
YP understands and manages their feelings and emotions. They access appropriate strategies or help as required.
YP can use strategies to maintain good mental health. This includes recognition of times when they are not coping and being able to seek help as required.
Sensory and physical
Employment
Young person (YP) can access and function within work-based environments to progress with future career choices. This includes voluntary work, community based projects and paid work.
YP can access and function within further or higher education provision to progress with future career choices.
YP can present their skills in written form (CV) to help secure future education and work-based options.
YP can access job centre provision to support pathways into employment after education.
Independence
Young person (YP) can access living arrangements that are positive in promoting independence and wellbeing. This includes residential arrangements for education.
Community inclusion
Young person (YP) can access community, leisure and social facilities to enable participation within the local community per the YP’s preference.
YP can access appropriate transport to help participation in community, leisure and social activities.
YP shows awareness of risk to remain safe. This includes travel, road safety and personal safety.
Health
Young person (YP) recognises the need for dental, medical and optical health. They take responsibility for making appointments as required.
YP takes steps to remain physically active and healthy per their individual circumstances.
YP makes healthy eating choices to promote physical wellbeing.
YP maintains any physiotherapy regimes necessary to ensure physical health and mobility.
YP engages with self-care routines to maintain appropriate levels of personal hygiene.
