# source/domain-registers/transition-to-adulthood.v1.yaml

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    register_version: life-course-domain-register.v1
    pack_id: pack-2-learning-transition
    domain: transition-to-adulthood
    title: Transition to adulthood
    status: population_complete
    observed_at: "2026-08-08"
    link_receipts: evaluation/link-receipts/pack-2-learning-transition-2026-08-08
    acquisition:
      mode: linked_reference_only
      snapshots_acquired: false
      source_response_bodies_retained: false
      publication_allowed: false
      rights_policy: link_and_summarize_source_family_decisions_recorded
    _source_defaults: &source_defaults
      access_method: public_html
      version_model: live_service_guidance
      update_cadence: check_before_each_use
      rights_basis: linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded
      observed_at: "2026-08-08"
      checksum: not_applicable_no_snapshot
    _family_defaults: &family_defaults
      primary_jurisdictions: [England]
      specialist_review: required
    route_sources:
      - <<: *source_defaults
        id: transition-adulthood-scotland-handoff
        jurisdiction: Scotland
        title: Education and training in Scotland
        owner: Scottish Government
        authority_role: scotland_transition_service_discovery_handoff
        resource: https://www.mygov.scot/browse/education-training
        coverage: Routes people to current Scottish education, training and transition services.
        exclusions: Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome.
      - <<: *source_defaults
        id: transition-adulthood-wales-handoff
        jurisdiction: Wales
        title: Education and skills in Wales
        owner: Welsh Government
        authority_role: wales_transition_service_discovery_handoff
        resource: https://www.gov.wales/education-skills
        coverage: Routes people to current Welsh learning, skills and transition services.
        exclusions: Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome.
      - <<: *source_defaults
        id: transition-adulthood-northern-ireland-handoff
        jurisdiction: Northern Ireland
        title: Young people in Northern Ireland
        owner: Northern Ireland Executive
        authority_role: northern_ireland_transition_service_discovery_handoff
        resource: https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/education
        coverage: Routes young people to current Northern Ireland services and responsibilities.
        exclusions: Does not establish a family-specific rule, entitlement, deadline or outcome.
    families:
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: receive-national-insurance-number
        title: Receive a National Insurance number
        aliases: [get my NI number, national insurance number for a young person]
        description: Find the automatic or application route for a National Insurance number and correct a missing-number problem.
        situations: [A young person needs a National Insurance number for work, tax or benefits.]
        user_needs: [Understand whether a number should arrive automatically and how to apply or recover it.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: receive-national-insurance-number-primary
          title: Apply for a National Insurance number
          owner: HM Revenue and Customs
          authority_role: national_insurance_number_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/apply-national-insurance-number
          coverage: Provides the current application and existing-number boundary.
          exclusions: Does not create, disclose or validate an individual's number.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: start-first-job
        title: Start a first job
        aliases: [first job checklist, begin paid work]
        description: Navigate job search, offer, work-status, pay and tax handoffs when beginning paid employment.
        situations: [A young person is looking for or preparing to start their first paid job.]
        user_needs: [Find official job-search and worker-rights routes and retain the employer's written output.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: start-first-job-primary
          title: Finding a job
          owner: UK Government
          authority_role: public_job_search_discovery_handoff
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/browse/working/finding-job
          coverage: Routes people to official job-search, application and starting-work information.
          exclusions: Does not recommend an employer, guarantee work or decide employment status.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: get-careers-advice
        title: Get careers advice
        aliases: [career guidance for teenagers, choose a career]
        description: Find impartial careers information and an adviser route for education, training or work choices.
        situations: [A young person wants help comparing future study, training and work routes.]
        user_needs: [Reach the appropriate public careers service without treating guidance as a guaranteed outcome.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: get-careers-advice-primary
          title: Careers helpline for teenagers
          owner: Department for Education
          authority_role: england_young_people_careers_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/careers-helpline-for-teenagers
          coverage: Provides the England public careers-information and adviser handoff for teenagers.
          exclusions: Does not choose a course, occupation or employer for the user.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: start-apprenticeship
        title: Start an apprenticeship
        aliases: [find an apprenticeship, apprentice job and training]
        description: Search and apply for an apprenticeship, then retain the employer and training-provider agreements.
        situations: [A person wants paid work combined with approved training.]
        user_needs: [Find the applicable apprenticeship service and understand the employer-provider boundary.]
        dependency: apprenticeship-employer-and-training-provider
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: start-apprenticeship-primary
          title: Find an apprenticeship
          owner: Department for Education
          authority_role: england_apprenticeship_application_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship
          coverage: Routes applicants to current England apprenticeship vacancies and applications.
          exclusions: Does not recommend an employer, award a place or verify employment terms.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: verify-qualifications
        title: Verify qualifications
        aliases: [check exam qualification, confirm certificate or award]
        description: Find the awarding-body or official recognition route to confirm a qualification or replace evidence.
        situations: [A person, employer or institution needs to check a qualification record.]
        user_needs: [Identify the awarding organisation and current verification or replacement route.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: verify-qualifications-primary
          title: Find a regulated qualification
          owner: Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation
          authority_role: england_regulated_qualification_register
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/find-a-regulated-qualification
          coverage: Routes users to England's register of regulated qualifications and awarding organisations.
          exclusions: Does not authenticate an individual's certificate or establish overseas equivalence.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: register-to-vote-for-first-time
        title: Register to vote for the first time
        aliases: [first electoral registration, join the electoral register]
        description: Submit an electoral-registration application and respond to any local registration evidence request.
        situations: [A newly eligible person wants to join the electoral register.]
        user_needs: [Use the correct registration route and understand that the local officer decides the application.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: register-to-vote-for-first-time-primary
          title: Register to vote
          owner: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
          authority_role: electoral_registration_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
          coverage: Provides the current online electoral-registration route and local-officer handoff.
          exclusions: Does not determine eligibility or confirm registration.
      - id: learn-to-drive-car
        title: Learn to drive a car
        aliases: [driving lessons, provisional licence, theory test, practical driving test, get a driving licence]
        description: Follow the jurisdiction-specific route from provisional entitlement through supervised learning and tests to the full-licence handoff.
        situations: [A person wants to learn to drive a car in Great Britain or Northern Ireland.]
        user_needs: [Obtain the correct provisional entitlement and complete the applicable testing route.]
        primary_jurisdictions: [England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland]
        specialist_review: required
        preserve_existing: true
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person
        title: Consent to healthcare as a young person
        aliases: [child consent to treatment, young person medical consent]
        description: Understand the clinical decision boundary for a child or young person agreeing to treatment.
        situations: [A child, young person, parent or clinician needs authoritative information about consent.]
        user_needs: [Find the current clinical and legal route without the bundle deciding capacity or consent.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: consent-to-healthcare-as-young-person-primary
          title: Consent to treatment — children and young people
          owner: NHS England
          authority_role: england_young_person_treatment_consent_guidance
          resource: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/consent-to-treatment/children/
          coverage: Explains the England NHS consent framework and clinician decision boundary.
          exclusions: Does not assess capacity, consent, treatment need or urgency.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: get-leaving-care-support
        title: Get leaving-care support
        aliases: [care leaver help, personal adviser after local authority care]
        description: Find the local-authority planning, adviser and support route for moving from care into adulthood.
        situations: [A young person is preparing to leave or has recently left local-authority care.]
        user_needs: [Reach the accountable leaving-care team and understand plan, support and complaint handoffs.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: get-leaving-care-support-primary
          title: Leaving foster or local authority care
          owner: Department for Education
          authority_role: england_care_leaver_support_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/leaving-foster-or-local-authority-care
          coverage: Introduces England leaving-care entitlements and the local-authority support route.
          exclusions: Does not assess individual entitlement, need or accommodation safety.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: transition-to-adult-social-care
        title: Transition to adult social care
        aliases: [move from children to adult care, transition social care assessment]
        description: Navigate assessment and planning when ongoing support moves from children's to adult services.
        situations: [A young person with care or support needs is approaching adult-service thresholds.]
        user_needs: [Find the responsible authority, assessment sequence and continuity or challenge route.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: transition-to-adult-social-care-primary
          title: Apply for a needs assessment by social services
          owner: Department of Health and Social Care
          authority_role: england_adult_social_care_assessment_discovery_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/apply-needs-assessment-social-services
          coverage: Routes an England applicant to the council adult-social-care assessment service.
          exclusions: Does not assess need, determine eligibility or create a care plan.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: access-child-trust-fund
        title: Access a Child Trust Fund
        aliases: [find child trust fund, withdraw CTF at 18]
        description: Find a Child Trust Fund provider and follow the maturity, control or missing-account route.
        situations: [A young person or responsible adult needs to locate or manage a Child Trust Fund.]
        user_needs: [Use the official tracing route before contacting the regulated account provider.]
        dependency: regulated-child-trust-fund-provider
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: access-child-trust-fund-primary
          title: Child Trust Fund
          owner: HM Revenue and Customs
          authority_role: child_trust_fund_discovery_and_tracing_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/child-trust-funds
          coverage: Provides the current Child Trust Fund overview, tracing and provider handoffs.
          exclusions: Does not disclose account details, recommend a provider or decide access.
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity
        title: Obtain proof of age or identity
        aliases: [get photo ID, prove age as a young person]
        description: Select an authoritative identity route for the intended purpose and obtain the required evidence.
        situations: [A young person needs accepted proof of identity, age or nationality.]
        user_needs: [Check what the relying service accepts before applying for an identity document.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: obtain-proof-of-age-or-identity-primary
          title: Apply online for a first adult passport
          owner: HM Passport Office
          authority_role: uk_first_adult_passport_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/apply-first-adult-passport
          coverage: Provides an authoritative UK passport identity route for eligible first-time adult applicants.
          exclusions: A passport is not the only proof-of-age route and the bundle does not decide eligibility or document acceptance.