Preparation for Adulthood (PFA) is an umbrella term used to support the transition from childhood to adulthood for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and to support them achieve the best outcomes. The four areas of PFA are:

• Independent living
• Good health and well-being
• Community inclusion
• Education and employment

In the East Riding, the Futures+ Service is the Learning Disability, Autism and Preparing for Adulthood service in Adult Social. The service helps young people to think about their futures through the transition from childhood to adulthood and aims to prevent crisis and improve outcomes for young people and their families, The service works in partnership with other agencies, such as health, education, and mental health, to provide a coordinated transition plan and a wrap-around support for each young person. The service also involves young people, parents, and carers in co-producing the service design and delivery.

The service has two hubs:

• Preparing for Adulthood Hub. The Preparing for Adulthood Hub accepts referrals for any young person who requires support to transition from children’s to adult services, and starts engaging with them from age 14. The Hub aims to provide rapid response to safeguarding concerns, support young people from age 14+ in their transition from children’s to adult services, and work in partnership with internal and external agencies, young people, families, and carers to enable individuals to maximize their potential and achieve their goals. The hub also aims to establish effective co-production, create a joint working protocol, and use strength-based and outcome-focused approaches to prevent, reduce, and delay the need for formal care. The hub works with young people aged 14-16, 16-18, and 18+ and has specific criteria for transitions.

• Community Inclusion Hub. The Community Inclusion Hub is an initiative that aims to provide long-term assessment, care, and support planning for individuals with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism. The hub works in collaboration with partner agencies, service users, families, and carers to deliver person-centered and strengths-based support. The hub offers a range of services, including multidisciplinary support, consultation, safeguarding, rapid response, and case management. The hub also works with commissioning to identify future service development based on the needs of the people who access the services. The criteria for accessing the hub include being 18 years or older and having a Learning Disability and/or Autism with additional factors such as dual diagnosis, high acuity, high risk, high cost, safeguarding issues, criminal justice involvement, homelessness, or independent living.

Further information can be found on the Council’s Adult Social Care web page and also the Your Life Your Way East Riding web page.

• SEN Support and EHCP participating in Education and/or Training aged 16-17: the East Riding in recent years has had a higher rate compared to England and region, but recently saw a reduction particularly for those with EHC plans.
• NEETS aged 16-17: East Riding has a lower proportion of young people with SEND, recorded as ‘NEETs* or not known’ than region and England (* NEET: ‘not in education, employment or training’).
• Key Stage 4 destinations: East Riding has a higher proportion of Key Stage 4 pupils with SEN remaining in education, employment or training than the national and regional averages.
• Key Stage 5 destinations: East Riding had a lower proportion of Key Stage 5 pupils (aged 17) with SEN in education, employment or training than the national and regional averages from mainstream schools, but a higher proportion from colleges.
• Accommodation and employment outcomes: there has been an increase in adults with learning disabilities living in their own home or with family but a reduction in the proportion in paid employment.

The indicators can be viewed in further detail in the next section below.

SEN Support and EHCP participating in Education and/or Training aged 16-17: the East Riding in recent years has had a higher rate compared to England and region, but recently saw a reduction particularly for those with EHC plans.

• In 2023, the proportion of East Riding SEN support in Education and/or Training (86.9%) was higher than region and national (85.9% and 83.1% respectively). The East Riding has remained higher than both comparators since 2019. However, there was a 2.7% reduction between 2022 and 2023 in the East Riding, which was also experienced by region and nationally but at a lower rate (1% and 1.6% respectively), (refer to page 3).
• Since 2019, those with EHC plans had had a higher rate of education and/or training in the East Riding than region and nationally, but a 4.2% reduction between 2022 and 2023 (higher than experienced by the two comparators), meant the East Riding (at 84.8%) fell below both region and national (87.4% and 87.2%), (page 3).

NEETS aged 16-17: East Riding has a lower proportion of young people with SEN, recorded as ‘NEETs or not known’ than region and England

• The proportion of East Riding children (aged 16-17) with SEN Support who were classified as ‘NEET or not known’ was 5.9% in 2023. This was lower than both region (11.5%) and national (9.3%). The East Riding has been lower than both since 2019 (page 4).
• Those with EHCPs of the same age recorded as ‘NEET or not known’ in the East Riding, made up 6.7% of the overall cohort in 2023, a 2.3% reduction from 2022. In the 3 years prior, the East Riding had seen an increasing proportion of ‘NEET or not known’. In 2023, the East Riding percent was lower than region and England (11.1% and 10.1% respectively), both of whom increased between 2022 and 2023 (page 4).
• The proportion of 16-17 year olds in 2023, without SEN in the East Riding (at 2.3%), was also lower than region and England (5.7% and 4.6% respectively) and has been since 2019 (page 5).
• Please note that this is a different indicator to the one referring to NEETS within the EHCP page (which reported a higher proportion in the East Riding than national and region).

Key Stage 4 destinations: East Riding has a higher proportion of Key Stage 4 pupils with SEN remaining in education, employment or training than the national and regional averages.

• In 2023, the East Riding had a higher percent (91%) of KS4 with SEN Support going into or remaining in education and employment/training overall, than region and England (86.2% and 88.5%). This was an increase in the East Riding from the previous year, in comparison with region and England who both decreased from the previous year (page 6).
• The percent of KS4 with EHCP going into or remaining in education and employment/training overall, has increased over the latest 3 years to 96% in 2023, higher than region (89.8%) and national (90.1%) (page 6).

Key Stage 5 destinations: East Riding had a lower proportion of Key Stage 5 pupils (aged 17) with SEN in education, employment or training than the national and regional averages from mainstream schools, but a higher proportion from colleges.

• Persons identified with SEN at KS5 level from mainstream schools who were in education, employment or training, was recorded as 79.4% in 2022 , a 4.6% reduction from the previous year and lower than region and national (86.1% and 83.9% respectively). In the previous 2 years, the East Riding had been higher than both but has seen a year on year decrease since 2020 (page 8).
• In state-funded colleges, 75.4% of ‘learners with learning difficulties or disabilities’ (LLDD) completed KS5 level, a higher percentage than region and national (69.9% and 69.8%), (page 9).

Accommodation and employment outcomes: there has been an increase in adults with learning disabilities living in their own home or with family but a reduction in the proportion in paid employment.

• The East Riding has seen an increase in the percentage of adults with learning disabilities living in their own home or with family from 71.4% to 80.2% between 2022 and 2023 (page 10). The East Riding 2023 figure was a similar proportion to region and national.
• There was, however, a decrease in the percentage of East Riding adults with learning disabilities in paid employment, which decreased from 5.8% in 2020 to 4.5% in 2023. Both region and national also decreased in this period (page 10).

Click the bullet points below to access the SEND East Riding Local Offer and Your Life Your Way

• SEND East Riding Local Offer: Adulthood.
• Your Life Your Way: contains information around activities that adults can access as well as support services.

Further information

• NICE Guidance: Transition from children’s to adults’ services (includes PDF which can be downloaded).