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

Table 4.7: People involved in the transition meeting, by SEN (per cent)
Communication
and Interaction
Cognition and
learning
Sensory
and/or
physical
Behaviour/
emotional/
social
development
School staff 53 48 50 47
Parents/carers 54 46 65 37
School Careers Adviser 44 43 35 55
SENCO 18 19 29 22
Careers Advisor/Connexions
personal adviser
19 23 24 16
Social Worker/Services 13 4 15 11
Another family member 2 2 0 1
Doctor/health worker 1 1 6 1
Friends or partner 1 3 2 4
Other 4 4 12 7
Don’t know 6 7 6 9
N = 214 485 79 131
Note: All percentages are weighted percentages, unless otherwise stated
Source: IES/MORI 2003
people with behavioural, emotional or social development
needs were most likely to recall that a school careers adviser
had been present at the transition review meeting.
Parents/carers from lower social class groups were also less
likely to have been involved in the young person’s transition
review meeting. Fifty five per cent of young people whose
parents/carers were employed in managerial/professional
jobs reported that their parent/carer had attended the
transition review meeting compared to just 35 per cent of
young people with parents/carers in unskilled occupations.
Parents/carers more commonly reported that they attended
review meetings to discuss their child’s transition plan than
appears to be the case from the young person’s point of view.
Seventy-one per cent of parents/carers reported that they had
attended an annual review meeting to discuss the young
person’s transition plan. Having said this, although
parents/carers were more likely to report that they had
attended a meeting to discuss the transition plan overall, the
differential involvement of parents/carers according to
whether or not the child had a statement of SEN, attended a
special or mainstream school, had particular special
educational needs and/or were from different social class
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