Jacky works for 'Access Social Care'- an organisation which provides free legal advice to people with social care needs, helping to achieve a better quality of life. In her work role, Jacky supports parents, carers and young people who are planning for adulthood to understand their options and to uphold their rights. Jacky is also parent and carer to a young man who is autistic, and has a learning disability. Jacky's own lived experience enables her to support other young people and those who care for them. In this video, Jacky shares the experience of families she has supported (and also reflecting on her own experience) about the expectations placed on parents and carers during the preparation for adulthood process. 

You know, if they're staying at home, there's a huge expectation that parents will do everything and all the transport and everything. Um, And it And if you want more help, then it's like a real push to say, well, you have to go into supported living then. And then in Gloucestershire, they advertise out, you know, on the portal or whatever, they do a pen picture. And they're really advertising for accommodation and care together

And so, you know, that just starts the whole. The whole setup being wrong, doesn't it?.

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