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Transition
The transition webpages packed with great resources from Melbourne Children’s Hospital, Australia.

Personalized Transition
Personalized Transition was commissioned by the Yorkshire & Humber Region and describes a radical new reform of public services. The report describes and evaluates the success of a new model of personalised transition to help disabled children leave school and move into adult life. But the implications of this reform go much wider, suggesting the possibility of radical reforms in health care and education.

Becoming an Adult
Becoming an Adult is a recent report from the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign focuses on the transition from childhood to adulthood for young men with Duchenne and how it affects their families and the key professionals who support them.

It explores the social and psychological aspects of this major life stage and the transition from one set of services to another. This report summarises a study into transition to adulthood for young men with Duchenne by conducted by David Abbott and Professor John Carpenter at the University of Bristol.

This report is available in print. To order a free copy you can: call the Information Line on 0800 652 6352 or email info@muscular-dystrophy.org

T2A
The Transition to Adulthood Alliance (T2A) (convened by the Barrow Cadbury Trust) is a broad coalition of organisations and individuals working to improve the opportunities and life chances of young people in their transition to adulthood, who are at risk of committing crime and falling into the criminal justice system.

Sexual health
Report
The report on sex education and young people with learning disabilities produced by CHANGE and the University of Leeds is now available.