Your support from children’s social care will probably end when you turn 18. The exceptions to this are if:
- you are a care leaver you will have ongoing support available from a personal advisor
- it has been agreed that this is not the right time to transition to adult services
- you have requested a Care Act transitions assessment that hasn’t taken place yet
If you are going to receive support from adult social care this will commence on the day after your 18th birthday, although in some cases we may agree an ongoing plan to support your transition and agree when the identified support from adult services with start.
You will be contacted about six weeks after it has started and then every year. If you have any concerns during the period before the team are due to contact you, you should contact the team at transitionsadultsocialcare@devon.gov.uk and ask for an earlier conversation.
Once you are 18, you can still approach adult social care to ask for a Care Act assessment if you have not had one or your needs or circumstances have changed.
If you have a support plan in place this should be reviewed every year to make sure that the plan is helping you to meet your goals.