Select Committee · Health and Social Care Committee

The transition from child to adult health and social care services

Status: Open Opened: 14 Apr 2026

Inquiry scope

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).

Written evidence

69 submissions recorded

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Reference	Date	Submitter
TRN0018 Full text not held	9 Sep 2026	Breakthrough T1D
TRN0034 Full text not held	9 Sep 2026	NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB
TRN0045 Full text not held	9 Sep 2026	United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum
TRN0063 Full text not held	9 Sep 2026	Ready Steady Go Hello
TRN0015 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Teenage Cancer Trust
TRN0014 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman
TRN0013 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB
TRN0012 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG)
TRN0011 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Solihull Council
TRN0010 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Ofsted
TRN0009 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence)
TRN0008 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Dr Colin Slasberg, Campaign for Real Care
TRN0006 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Emeritus Professor Luke Clements, University of Leeds
TRN0030 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
TRN0029 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	London Borough of Barnet
TRN0028 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Spinal Muscular Atrophy UK
TRN0027 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
TRN0026 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Barnardo's
TRN0025 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	The Challenging Behaviour Foundation
TRN0024 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Jazz Pharmaceuticals
TRN0023 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit
TRN0022 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Barts Health NHS Trust
TRN0021 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Muscular Dystrophy UK
TRN0020 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Cystic Fibrosis Trust
TRN0019 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	British Psychological Society
TRN0017 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Hertfordshire County Council
TRN0016 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust
TRN0044 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Roshni Vadher
TRN0043 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	EnrichMyCare
TRN0042 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
TRN0041 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Dr Talat Ahmed, Strouts Place Medical Centre
TRN0040 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Association of British Neurologists
TRN0039 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
TRN0038 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Mencap
TRN0037 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Luton Council
TRN0036 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub (SYDHH)
TRN0035 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Down's Syndrome Association
TRN0033 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Emeritus Professor Allan Colver, Newcastle University
TRN0032 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Together for Short Lives
TRN0031 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Thames Valley Integrated Care Board
TRN0060 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London
TRN0059 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Care Quality Commission
TRN0058 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Great Ormond Street Hospital
TRN0056 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Young Epilepsy
TRN0055 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	British Paediatric Neurology Association
TRN0054 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Kids
TRN0053 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
TRN0052 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	IMPOWER Consulting Ltd
TRN0051 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	Dr Po-Chang Tseng, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London
TRN0050 Full text not held	18 Aug 2026	South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Acute Federation

Correspondence

2 letters

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Published	Direction	Letter
2 Sep 2026	—	Correspondence from DHSC on IEP evaluation
10 Jun 2026	—	The transition from child to adult health and social care roundtable summary note