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

Table 4.2: Young person’s recall of attending transition planning review, by SEN
Communi–
cation and
Interaction
%
Cognition
and
learning
%
Sensory
and/or
physical
%
Behaviour /
emotional /
social
development
% All
Yes 55 47 60 40 48
No 21 34 26 42 32
Don’t know/can’t
remember
24 19 15 18 20
N = 363 917 122 284 1,686
Note: All percentages are weighted percentages, unless otherwise stated
Source: IES/MORI 2003
with behavioural, emotional and social development needs (30
per cent) remembered their child attending such a review
meeting compared to the young person’s recall.
4.1.2 Usefulness of transition planning
Almost three-quarters of young people who remembered
attending a transition review meeting thought that it had been
fairly or very useful (Figure 4.1). One in five young people,
however, reported that the meeting was ‘not very useful’ or
‘not at all useful’. No key differences were observed in relation
to the usefulness of the transition planning meeting according
to the type of school attended, whether the young person had
a statement of SEN or indeed according to their SEN type.
The transition planning review appears to have been more
useful in terms of information provision rather than helping
Figure 4:1: Perceived usefulness of the transition planning review
Don't know/can't
remember
Not at all useful 7%
6%
Very useful
22%
Not very useful
15%
N = 984
Fairly useful
50%
Source: IES/MORI 2003
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