Earlier in October MacIntyre was delighted to welcome members of the Casey Commission team to Milton Keynes.
The Casey Commission, led by Dame Louise Casey, are conducting an independent review into adult social care. The Commission began in April 2025 and will be undertaken in two phases with the final phase reporting back by 2028 to the Prime Minister.
At the visit to MacIntyre the team heard about three different areas:
- The move from children’s residential and education support to adult social care
- MacIntyre’s experience of successfully supporting disabled people who have been inappropriately living in secure settings to move into their own homes.
- The importance of engaging and investing in the third sector. How third sector organisations, like those of us making up the More Than a Provider collaboration, can help lever community based assets and influence the shape and scope of what is considered to be great social care.
Leaving education
How do young people and their families avoid the “transition cliff edge” when leaving education
The Commission were urged to include a focus on the period of time after a person leaves education (often referred to a “transition” in the scope of their report).
We were joined by Alice, who shared her personal experience of supporting her son Jude when he left MacIntyre’s school this summer. Despite initiating the planning more than a year before he was due to leave, Alice was offered the final choices for Jude just a week before his leaving date.
Jude’s parents’ first choice was for him to continue in education, but the local further education college would not accept him and the closest specialist college was more than two hours from their home. The only option remaining was for Jude to move to an adult supported living home in his home county. The team heard how Alice fears Jude is already losing some skills; she is now in regular contact with the local authority to look at options for him to move.
MacIntyre No Limits™
Bruce Smith, Head of MacIntyre No Limits, presented the No Limits solution – No Limits offers personalised programmes of learning for 16-25 year olds who have an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP). The focus of the curriculums includes four Pathways:
