Parent carer's Preparing for Adulthood (PfA) guide
The Parent Carer's Preparing for Adulthood (PfA) Journey Guide was created by parent carer Solange Timms, with the support of fellow carers and professionals, to share her family’s journey.
Solange says: ‘Our family is expected to make life-changing decisions at the same time as navigating changing services, different legal systems and increased expectations of independence. We quickly discovered that PfA is not a single event nor a single decision made at 18. It is a long-term planning process, grounded in national law and guidance (a statutory requirement) that should run through our young people's education and lives from Year 9 onwards’.
There are two ways of accessing the guide: