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Research Report No. 582 Post-16 Transitions: a Longitudinal Study of Young People with Special Educational Needs: Wave Two S Dewson, J Aston, P Bates, H Ritchie Institute for Employment Studies Prof. A Dyson University of Manchester The views expressed in this report are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department for Education and Skills. © Institute for Employment Studies 2004 ISBN 1 84478 323 5
Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the many young people, parents and carers who took part in the survey, and all those participating in the case studies without whom this research would not have been possible. Thanks are also due to other members of the research team, in particular, Hannah Mitchell, Rebecca Willison, Alice Sinclair, and Barbara Roberts who were responsible for the case studies, Jane Stevens, Adel Varnai and Helen Shaw from MORI and Tara Cooke at the Department for Education and Skills. iv
Page 1: RESEARCH Post-16 Transitions: a Lon
Page 5 and 6: Contents Executive Summary viii 1.
Page 7 and 8: Executive Summary Introduction This
Page 9 and 10: help or information from the young
Page 11 and 12: profound difficulties and those whi
Page 14 and 15: 1. Introduction This report present
Page 16 and 17: Main-stage fieldwork The aim in the
Page 18 and 19: Table 1.2: Estimates of the number
Page 20 and 21: • Chapter ten draws together the
Page 22 and 23: when educational options have a str
Page 24 and 25: of work-related training schemes. I
Page 26 and 27: without very considerable effort on
Page 28 and 29: introduction of a Children’s Bill
Page 30 and 31: 3. Characteristics of Young People
Page 32 and 33: difficulties. The less common forms
Page 34 and 35: Table 3.6: Statement of special edu
Page 36 and 37: Table 3.10: Change in SEN status N
Page 38 and 39: severe learning difficulties/profou
Page 40 and 41: 4. School and Outcomes A primary ai
Page 42 and 43: Table 4.2: Young person’s recall
Page 44 and 45: Table 4.5: Reasons why transition p
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Figure 4:3: Reasons why Year 11 dis
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Table 4.13: Provider of help to pre
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Table 4.15: Most helpful person whe
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Table 4.18: Extent to which school
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In cases such as these, transition
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were choices but young person and f
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Figure 4:6: Young People’s views
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“In school he had quite a lot of
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Figure 4.7: Whether gained qualific
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Figure 4.11: Level of qualification
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• Over three-quarters of all youn
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Table 5.1: Current main activity Al
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Table 5.4: Current main activity, b
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Table 5.6: Current main activity, b
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college for people with LDD, and we
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transition plan to have sought advi
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5.2.3 Ease of transition The majori
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Table 5.14: Occupation/training typ
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5.3.3 Method of jobsearch and advic
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• help to progress into work/trai
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Table 5.21: Reasons for current ina
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Table 5.24: Advice received when lo
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However, he was finding this new co
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years, often in quite productive ac
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Table 5.25: Parent/carer view on ex
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employment or a training placement
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Figure 6:2: Benefit receipt, by SEN
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had not had any subsequent contact
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Table 6.3: Type of support lost sin
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Table 6.5: Additional support recei
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met by his special school sixth for
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education since their child left Ye
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• colleges (33 per cent of parent
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published information against just
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who had a statement of SEN and/or h
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Table 6.12: Parent/carer knowledge
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Figure 7:1: Qualifications gained (
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Parents were also asked to reflect
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“(He is) a bit more independent;
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immaturity and the fact that she is
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8. Leisure Activities and Social Li
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Figure 8:2: Weekday evenings spent
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For some young people, the involvem
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For Li, who has found his own way o
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Figure 9:2: Parental views on young
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Table 9.1: Views on the future, all
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Table 9.5: View (4) on the future,
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9.3 Next activity Almost three-quar
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plans for their futures but for var
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10. Conclusions 10.1 Introduction T
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Transition planning is purposely fo
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needs in both the academic and the
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and most reported that they had mor
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the most severe and complex difficu
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Appendix One: Wave 2 survey Summary
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Table A.1: Profile of participating
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10.5.2 Weighting Table A.3 reports
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• Economic factors • Structural
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gave their consent and who lived in
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Gareth is a young man with learning
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she does not succeed, her Connexion
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examples here are Maria who wants t
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time to themselves. The problem for
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here. He is one of the nicest peopl
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Appendix Four: References Bignall T
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