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Stepping Up
This guidance is for children and young people with additional needs, families and carers to find support and advice from early years through to adulthood. It will also be useful for foster carers, child minders and professionals. It has been consulted on and put together by families and young people, multi-disciplinary professionals and agencies across education, health, care, voluntary organisations, housing, leisure and employment services.
Find out more about Stepping Up
You can download, save and print the Stepping Up guide below. We are currently working on producing a young person's version of this guide.
Download the Stepping Up guide (PDF, 11 MB)(opens new window)
Download the plain text version (Word doc, 112 KB)(opens new window)
As part of Stepping Up, we have created an app for young people, parents and carers to use for everyday support through key transitions.
Download on the App Store (opens new window)Download on the Play Store (opens new window)
This section looks at transition at key and significant points during a child's life. It has been written to reflect those children and young people who have additional needs who will need some 'enhanced support' at transition times and those who have more complex needs who will require specific and specialist interventions. These suggestions are to help families, young people and professionals to ask the right questions at the right time, to gain greater consistency of approach across all the transition points as the child and young person moves through their life.
If you are unsure on where to get support, view our guide on services and organisations that are there to help you throughout the transitions in your child's life and preparing them for adulthood.