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Children and Young Persons Bill [HL]

My Lords, this rosy picture is not necessarily experienced on the ground. Work done on the transition of disabled children from children’s to adult services shows that it can be very traumatic and underlines how important it is that they have stable continuing family circumstances. Very often disabled children do not have the capacity to understand what is happening to them when they are moved from one health service section to another and to have to move from one home to another in addition can be disastrous. The relevant process needs to be much faster.