Jacky works for 'Access Social Care'- an organisation which provides free legal advice to people with social care needs, helping to achieve a better quality of life. In her work role, Jacky supports parents, carers and young people who are planning for adulthood to understand their options and to uphold their rights. Jacky is also parent and carer to a young man who is autistic, and has a learning disability. Jacky's own lived experience enables her to support other young people and those who care for them. In this video, Jacky shares the experiences of two parents who had home-schooled their daughter for many years and were planning for her support as an adult.

So, I recently sat with a family who've got a daughter who was just 18 and. She is deaf, so she's a BSL user, but she's also got cerebral palsy and dystonia and uh a level of learning disability and likely to be autistic, but that's never been explored because of the difficulty of communication anyway. And. They've got a 13 year old son and a one year old baby as well, so they homeschooled her for years, never had a night off

And this transition practitioner starts his conversation with, oh well, you know, it's different in adults, um, you know, we expect families to step up..

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