Consultation outcome

Continuing care for children and young people with complex needs

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 3 September 2015
• Last updated: 22 January 2016 — See all updates

This was published under the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

Comments and suggestions received in the consultation have been adopted into the new National Framework for Children and Young People’s Continuing Care.

The main changes have been to:

• simplify the language and streamline the guidance
• clarify how the domains should be interpreted
• provide advice on how the continuing care process fits into education, health and care plan assessments for children with special educational needs and disability, and multi-agency assessments.

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Original consultation

Summary

Seeking views on the process for assessing, deciding and agreeing continuing care for children with complex health needs.

This consultation ran from
9:30am on 3 September 2015 to 11:45pm on 23 October 2015

Consultation description

We are seeking views on the revised National Framework for Children and Young People’s Continuing Care (including a tool to ensure all relevant needs are assessed and support decisions about care). The framework helps clinical commissioning groups and other professionals to assess the care required for children and young people with health needs that are not met by existing or specialised services.

The 2010 framework has been revised to take account of changes to commissioning and the new arrangements for children with special educational needs and disability.

Documents

Draft National Framework for Children and Young People's Continuing Care

PDF, 900 KB, 49 pages

Draft decision support tool

MS Word Document, 2.02 MB

Published 3 September 2015
Last updated 22 January 2016 + show all updates

1. 22 January 2016

   Outcome of consultation added.

2. 3 September 2015

   First published.