The transition from child to adult health and social care services

The Health and Social Care Committee has established and commissioned a politically impartial panel of experts to conduct an evaluation – independently of the Committee – of the services provided to individuals moving from child to adult health and social care. The Expert Panel will produce a report after each evaluation which will be sent to the Committee to review and undertake follow-up work. The Expert Panel is chaired by Professor Dame Jane Dacre and is comprised of core (i.e. permanent) members and subject specialists. Core members of the Expert Panel are: Sir Robert Francis QC; Sir David Pearson; Professor Emma Cave; Anita Charlesworth; and Professor Stephen Peckham. Palliative care specialist members of the Expert Panel are: Louise Porter, Registered Children’s Nurse and Head of Children and Young People at Thames Valley Integrated Care Board Melanie Williams, Executive Director of People Services and Statutory Director of Adult Social Services at West Northants Council, and Former ADASS President Professor Ruth Gilbert Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, and Co-director at NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit Dr Alenka Brooks, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Associate Medical Director for Young People’s Services at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Naomi Russell, Social worker, Deputy Lead for Demonstrator Projects at IMPACT, and former team manager of the Transitions Team at Nottinghamshire County Council. An overview of the Expert Panel’s work is available here: The Health and Social Care Committee’s Expert Panel Further information on the Expert Panel is set out in the Health & Social Care Committee Special Report: Process for independent evaluation of progress on Government commitments (5 August 2020).