{"id":68966,"date":"2025-06-10T14:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/?page_id=68966"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:59:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:59:50","slug":"resources-for-transition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/send-local-offer\/types-of-send\/sensory-and-or-physical-needs\/resources-for-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources for transition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Transition is a word often used to describe the process when you move from being a child to an adult. It covers the period between ages 14 and 25. The ROVIC Service is committed to supporting young people and their families in achieving a transition that is responsive to individual need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Preparing for adulthood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/send-local-offer\/preparing-for-adult-life-ages-14-25-years\/\">Preparing for adult life \u2013 supporting you as you plan for your future<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 The term \u2018preparing for adulthood\u2019 is used to describe the time in your life as you move from being a child to an adult and can start from year 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/care-and-support\/younger-adults-16-18\/transitions-adult-social-care-tasc-service\/\">Transitions Adult Social Care (TASC) Service<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 Until the age of 18, services for children and young people with long-term health conditions are provided by child health and social care services. From 18, they\u2019re usually provided by adult services. Between the ages of 14 and 18, a child will start a transition to adult services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/care-and-support\/disabilities\/sensory-impairments\/sensory-disability-services\/\">Sensory disability services<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 Devon Sensory Team provides support and advice to people who are visually impaired, deaf, have an acquired hearing loss, deafblind (sometimes known as a dual sensory impairment \u2013 a significant combination of hearing and sight loss).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/\">Adult Social Care<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 Supporting your independence \u2013 Helping you to find the support you need to stay healthy, happy and independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transition is a word often used to describe the process when you move from being a child to an adult. It covers the period between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"parent":20211,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-68966","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-31 19:11:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69129,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68966\/revisions\/69129"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}