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Preparation for Adulthood (PfA) - update
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The last twelve months have seen the Preparation for Adulthood (PfA) team embark on a journey of relationship building with children and young people, parent carers and education professionals from around Gloucestershire.
The aim has been to raise awareness of PfA and provide advice, guidance and practical support to help improve outcomes for young people as they prepare for that vital step towards adulthood.
Here is a summary of the best bits of the last year …
- Our shared vision is for everyone working across education, health and social care in Gloucestershire to have a standardised approach to Preparation for Adulthood. The PfA professionals forum has seen all of these agencies come together to put this into action
- Focusing on young people, families, carers and professionals to think about PfA from Year 6 ready for Year 9. We carried out parent carer coffee mornings to start the conversations with families and young people entering secondary school.
- The PfA team improved its offer to schools and colleges and have started trialling new services dedicated to helping young people prepare for their futures. We are now providing timetabled support for young people in education and looking to expand on our offers to support more young people.
- We delivered our PfA training across the county to approximately 290 professionals across GCC services and educational settings.
- We started to see impact through improved PfA conversations and outcomes.
- We worked closely with Gloucestershire Parent Carer Forum to ensure we are taking guidance from the experts with experience.
- We worked with the Restorative and Relational Practice Team to ensure that relationships are at the heart of all that we do.
- We shared best practice with other local authorities, keen to explore and mirror GCC’s offer for independent travel training, its offer for schools and PfA training for professionals.
Preparation for Adulthood programme at the SkillZone is reaching a midpoint. Following a successful trial at Henley Bank School, we are now exploring how we can further develop the programme and take this into more schools and the wider community.