Post-16 Transitions: a Longitudinal Study of Young People with ...

Table 5.25: Parent/carer view on extent to which young person’s activities since Year 11
have followed the transition plan
All
State–
mented
Not state–
mented
Special
school
Mainstream
school
N = % % % % %
A great deal 280 30 33 26 34 28
A fair amount 313 33 37 24 39 29
Not very much 117 13 13 15 11 15
Not at all 111 14 11 22 8 17
Didn’t know what the plans were 73 9 7 14 8 10
N = 894 746 131 399 495
Note: All percentages are weighted percentages, unless otherwise stated
Source: IES/MORI 2003
In line with young people’s views, most parents thought that
the reason their post-16 activities had not followed the
transition plan was because the young person had decided to
do something else (Table 5.27). Parents were also likely to
mention ill-health and a lack of necessary qualifications as
barriers to conforming to the transition plan. However, more
than ten per cent of parents reported that it was the lack of
help, support or follow-up that prevented the young person
from achieving the aims of the transition plan. Interestingly,
though, ten per cent of parents also said that the young person
had not followed the transition plan because the parent or
carer wanted them to follow a different course of action. Just
six per cent of parents thought the plan had been unrealistic.
Table 5.26: Parent/carer view on extent to which young person’s activities since Year 11
have followed the transition plan, by SEN (per cent)
Communi–
cation and
Interaction
Cognition
and
learning
Sensory
and/or
physical
Behaviour/
emotional/social
development
A great deal 30 30 43 25
A fair amount 37 32 39 30
Not very much 11 14 10 18
Not at all 14 15 3 15
Didn’t know what the plans were 8 10 6 11
N = 224 480 75 115
Note: All percentages are weighted percentages, unless otherwise stated
Source: IES/MORI 2003
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