Building independence through planning for transition

A quick guide for practitioners supporting young people

Published: June 2017

Transition to adults’ services can be a difficult time for young people. They need support and reassurance to help them move on to a more independent life. This quick guide explains how early planning and access to the right information can help young people and their families to make the right choices. It will be of interest to all practitioners who support young people as they move from children’s to adults’ services.

Areas covered include:

• Planning for transition: what to think about
• Being fully involved
• Having the right information
• Further information

Quick guides, developed jointly by NICE and SCIE, are based on NICE guidelines and quality standards. They cover key points on social care topics that are relevant to specific audiences. This new format has been developed in response to feedback from the social care sector who report that they prefer information about improving services to be easily accessible, concise and visually appealing. The guides are available online and also as PDFs.