The Moving Forward Directory
The Moving Forward Directory aims to include contact information for all institutions offering post-16 opportunities to young people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities across Tyne and Wear and Northumberland.
Your choices at 16
When you reach the age of 16 a range of learning options become available. Some young people stay on at school until they are 18 or 19, depending on the school they attend.
After leaving school you could:
- Go to a college
- Start a course of work-based learning
- Get a job
- Do voluntary work
- Be supported by Social Services/Social Care and Health/Children’s Services to achieve your potential
Your options will be discussed at your annual review and a transition plan will be made to help you work towards the option you would like to take.
Staying on at school
Schools offer all sorts of courses in the sixth form. Some courses will help you develop independence skills, others will help you learn about the world of work or help prepare you for a particular job.
Local colleges
Colleges of further education offer a wide range of courses and provide additional support to help disabled students and those with learning difficulties to access mainstream courses. If local provision can’t meet your needs you may be able to access a place at a specialist college. Specialist colleges offer very specific education programmes to meet your particular needs (for example autism, visual or hearing impairment, or learning difficulties). Specialist Colleges offer day placements and in exceptional circumstances residential may be considered. Funding for students attending specialist colleges is currently accessed through the local authority and the Young People’s Learning Agency. This process is led by the Connexions service with the support of other agencies.
If you would like to add or update your institution's details, please contact Connexions Hub Services on Freephone 0800 073 8700.
Although every effort has been made to ensure that this information was correct at the time of publication, contacts, telephone numbers and addresses are subject to change, which may make the information become gradually less accurate.