Unique service for disabled launched in Carmarthenshire
A unique service to help disabled young people move from childhood to adulthood will be launched in Carmarthenshire next week. Carmarthenshire County Council will launch the Transition Service at Llanelli’s Coleg Sir Gar on Wednesday, June 23. The first of its kind in Wales, the service will help bridge the gap between social care services for children and adults. A new multi-disciplinary team of key workers has been established to support young people with special educational needs from the time they reach year nine at school, guiding them through careers advice, assessments and care plans, until they turn 25 when their care needs will be fully met by adult social care teams. The Transition team works with other teams and services to assess the needs of young disabled people. The key-workers take the lead in drawing up plans to meet assessed need, and monitor and review the progress of the plan. Transition team manager Jonathan Hughes said: “This is an important new service which wor...