Transforming Society: Getting It Right for Every Child

1. Getting it right for every child Enquire Seminar 16th March 2011 Robin McKendrick Getting it right for every child

2. Getting it right for every child • Getting it right for every child is a vision led political and societal transformational change programme • Managed using Managing Succesfull Programmes (MSP) principles • Is the national programme that aims to improve outcomes for all children and young people in Scotland.

3. Early Years Framework Equally Well Achieving our Potential Curriculum for Excellence Support for Learning More Choices More Chances Youth justice LAC Better Health Better Care Hall 4 Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland Road to Recovery Policy Framework HOW WHAT GIRFEC = TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE

4. The 10 Core Components • Focus on improving outcomes for young people, based on shared understanding of well-being • Common approach to gaining consent and sharing information where appropriate • Integral role for children, young people and families • Co-ordinated approach to assessing needs, agreeing actions and outcomes, based on the Well-being Indicators • Streamlined planning, assessment and decision making leading to the right help at the right time

5. The 10 Core Components (continued) • High standards of co-operative working and communication • ANamed Person for all children and • ALead Professional to co-ordinate multi-agency activity • 8. Maximising the skilled workforce within universal services • 9. A confident and competent workforce across all services • 10. Capacity to share demographic, assessment, and planning information electronically

6. ASL/GIRFEC • ASL/GIRFEC Interface • Do the Principles of ASL and GIRFEC fit together? • GIRFEC – Principles • Meet the needs of all children in a proportionate and timely way. • ASL • Focus’ on children’s learning in the broadest sense. • Sits within the overall GIRFEC approach

7. Each child • an individual child might be assessed as needing help to improve their safety, their achievement and their inclusion (three of the wellbeing indicators) • The interventions or supports for an individual child will vary and will be dependant on what it is that is getting in the way of those areas of well-being. This will be different for each child. • Improvement, however, must be able to be measured

8. One Childs Plan • Planning • Do we need a Co-ordinated Support Plan (CSP) and a GIRFEC Plan • CSP is a statutory plan - statutory requirement to prepare one. • Where there is multi agency intervention GIRFEC principles point to having a single planning process.

9. The Childs Plan – one child, one plan • Co- ordinated Support plan • Supporting children’s learning code of practice – Chapter 5 - Paragraph 101-105. • Getting it right Practice Briefing 6

10. Edinburgh - Children’s Services Delivery Model Statutory Measures Complex Needs Advice from Early Intervention/Social Work re: preventive strategies and/ or appropriateness of Social Work Services referral Child’s Plan (Multi-Agency, managed by Lead Professional) Stage 3 Plan Lead Professional ALL CHILDREN---------------------------------CHILDREN IN NEED--------------------------AT RISK OF HARM Stage 2 Plan Support for children and families from community and universal services e.g. Educational Psychology, Educational Welfare Officer, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service and Voluntary Sector services Team Around the Cluster Plan (Single Agency, managed by Named Person) e.g. Health Plan, Individualised Education Programme Shared Assessment Stage 1 Plan Stage 1 Plan Named Person Early Identification/Intervention Strengthening Universal Services e.g. Curriculum for Excellence, Growing Confidence, Solihull, Improving Relationships Strategy, Peer Early Education Programme, Parent/Carer Support, Community Learning and Development and Voluntary Sector services Team Around the Cluster v1.1

11. Dundee – Hierarchy of Need

12. The role of the central GIRFEC team Embedding GIRFEC in relevant National policies Embedding GIRFEC in the new scrutiny regime Supporting Practice Improvement -including iACT Supporting National implementation through CPP engagement

13. CPP Engagement • Now engaging in regional formations • Grampian • Tayside • Fife • Forth Valley • South East Scotland • West of Scotland (but some way to go) • In an effort to promote GIRFEC implementation across boundaries • Strategic engagement event on 14.03.11

14. Embedding in all relevant policies • Health • Justice • Communities • Housing • Early Years • Education

15. National guidance (GIRFEC implementation, Child protection etc) National statistics, indicators etc Scrutiny Less frequent (e.g. bi-annual) Self-evaluation, benchmarking improvement at CPP level Regular (e.g. quarterly) Management info for Chief Officers Frequent (e.g. monthly) • Coherent improvement regime • Scrutiny is dependent on self-evaluation • Self-evaluation is dependent on management information

16. Supporting Practice Improvement • Workforce development – Draft delivery plan for development of Children’s Workforce • Common skills core – consultation exercise commences 15.03.11 to run for 5 months • 7 Practice papers published December 2010 • Also includes iACT!

17. Primarily a National System which provides the means for agencies working with children to securely and discreetly share information Each agency hosts their own instance of iACT Children the agency are working with are registered on iACT - eCare will match each registration providing identification integrity If an iACT agency has a concern about a child or require information they can issue an enquiry. iACT will direct the enquiry to any other agency who has the child registered, this is screened from the sender The receiving agency can assess the request and reply or not, as judged appropriate The sender has no knowledge of who has been sent the request, there is no read receipt iACT can also be used to target a known and identified partner or partners and to securely exchange information. inter Agency Communication Tool (iACT

18. iACT – What next? 28.02.11 – Functional requirements re-visited by GIRFEC practitioners from Health, SW, Police and Education 02.03.11 – Data Sharing Partnership Managers consulted and briefed 17.03.11 – Cross sector GIRFEC Practitioners invited to form user group and set terms of reference April and going forward iACT Business Design Advisory Group formed with appropriate chair Functionality revisited and validated re

19. Highland Pathfinder Benefits A more holistic assessment of children. Reduced bureaucracy means staff have more time for direct work with children and families. - Fewer meetings and reports for all agencies; 75% saving in time required for meetings- 50% reduction in SW caseload, and admin reduced to 10% of activity. Reduction in unnecessary referrals to the Reporter – down by 70%. Reporters and Panels have more time for more serious cases. Reductions of around 50% in the number of children regarded at risk of significant harm. Getting it right for every childBenefits

20. Getting it right for every child • Improved outcomes for a majority of children. • Teachers, Health Visitors, Social Workers etc all having a better understanding and valuing each others roles, and how they support each other • Faster and better quality information sharing • Children's needs identified at an earlier stage • More effective interventions • Less cumbersome processes for children and families • Children and families know what is intended and when it will happen

21. Getting it right for every child • Other areas • With the aim of improving outcomes for children Falkirk and Angus councils have re-engineered their processes in respect of children in residential care • In Falkirk there is a yearly review based on each child’s stated needs and objectives • In Angus the wellbeing indicators are used in ongoing three monthly reviews to measure outcomes • Both have seen a spend reduction of between 20 -25%!

22. QUESTIONS?