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ABERDEENSHIRE INTEGRATEDASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK

ABERDEENSHIRE INTEGRATEDASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK. Policy Context:. For Scotland’s Children It’s Everyone’s Job Growing Support Getting Our Priorities Right Hidden Harm Health for all Children Additional Support for Learning (Act) GIRFEC. Aim of GIRFEC.

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ABERDEENSHIRE INTEGRATEDASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK

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  1. ABERDEENSHIREINTEGRATEDASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK

  2. Policy Context: • For Scotland’s Children • It’s Everyone’s Job • Growing Support • Getting Our Priorities Right • Hidden Harm • Health for all Children • Additional Support for Learning (Act) • GIRFEC

  3. Aim of GIRFEC • Get help when you need it and are central to finding solutions • Consistent and equitable approach, working more effectively together to improve outcomes • Clear about personal responsibility and contribute to collective responsibility • Parents and Children benefit of a collaborative approach • Agencies/professionals time. Appropriate, proportionate, timely action. Minimum paperwork, bureaucracy and duplication

  4. Principles of Aberdeenshire IAF • Potential to be integrated • Right help at right time • Information shared • Child at the centre • Proportionate interventions • Rationalisation of meetings • Comprehensive & integrated Action Planning

  5. Road Tests • Project Board • Trial of IAF process • Learning and Evaluation • Ownership by CSN • Alford & Inverurie • Key Tasks and Targets • Champions • Roll Out across Aberdeenshire

  6. Success Indicators • Improved working relationships. • Information sharing • Improved outcomes for children & families. • Resources targeted to identified need. • Timescales & QI Indicators met. • Acceptance & fulfilment of Lead Professional role.

  7. Success Indicators • Shared understanding of risk thresholds. • Decrease in duplication of effort – less meetings. • Strategic targeting of resources • Culture Change – all of the above.

  8. Culture is the result of messages that are received about what is really valued. People align their Behaviour to these messages in order to fit in. Changing culture requires a systematic and planned change to these messages, whose sources are behaviour, symbols and systems.

  9. QUESTIONS/COMMENTS

  10. The IAF Process • What are the triggers? • What do I do next? • Is this a Child Protection Issue? • Is the child & family known to other agencies • Are needs being met? • Ask the right questions?

  11. Ask the Right Questions • What can I do for this child/family? • What can my agency do for this child/family? • Are there others involved? • What do the child/family want? • How do we achieve this?

  12. IAF Tools • Assessment Triangle • Core Record • Chronology of Significant Events • Contact Record • Action Plans • IAF Operational Standards? • Draft Children’s Services (Scotland) Bill

  13. Assessment Triangle • Key element of framework • Template to structure thinking • Identifies generic areas of importance in child development • Guides holistic assessment • Consider all component parts • Ensures inclusion of child & family

  14. Chronology • Achievements, Events, Developments, Changes, Influences • Observation of patterns and events • Recording of circumstances & experiences • Recording of milestones • Think about how this information is formatted.

  15. Core Record • Combination of all information held • Information dated and sourced • Information Sharing Protocols • Consent & Confidentiality Protocols • Held by Lead Professional

  16. Action Plan • Streamline & Rationalisation • One agreed/co-ordinated Plan • Child & family play central role • Simplify process for professionals • Reduce meetings for all

  17. Contact Record • Provides consistency & continuity • Record communication with child & family • Record all incoming & outgoing communication • Can be used as evidence

  18. Operational Standards • Collates evidence • Reminds us of what is required • Fits with Quality Assurance approach • Satisfaction Survey

  19. Questions/Comments

  20. Lead Professional • Child & family central to the process • Child & family understand about sharing of information • Develop productive relationships • Liasing between child & family & professionals • Advocate on behalf of child & family • Gather information • Assess & analyse information

  21. Review progress • Review resource situation • Monitor & co-ordinate plans and progress

  22. Questions/Comments Coffee

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