Help to cope with change

It is important that children and young people know that change is coming and are helped to prepare for it. This is called 'person-centred planning'.

Parents/carers have an important role to play in helping their child or young person get ready for transition.

Parents/carers and places of learning can use these tools to share information that will help new people quickly gain key knowledge and understanding about a child or young person:

• One-page profile - a simple summary of what is important to someone and how they want to be supported
• Relationship map (PDF, 197 KB) - helps you think about the people who are involved in all areas of the child or young person’s life
• What's working, what's not working tool (PDF, 205 KB) - helps you to identify what is working that you would like to keep, and is not working which needs to change
• Decision making tool (PDF, 131 KB) - this is both a decision-making profile and a decision-making agreement. Together, these help you support the child or young person to make decisions and record how these decisions will be made
• Wishes and feelings - are useful for recording the voice of the child or young person. They come in different designs:
  Voice of the Child - Feelings and wishes - fairy (PDF, 27 KB)
  Voice of the Child - Feelings and wishes - my feelings colouring chart (PDF, 1 MB)
  Voice of the Child - Feelings and wishes - sheet (PDF, 98 KB)
  Voice of the Child - Feelings and wishes - three houses (PDF, 12 KB)
  Voice of the Child - Feelings and wishes - wizard (PDF, 99 KB)