Title: Getting it right for every child
1Getting it right for every child
- Lorraine Spalding
- Getting it right for every child team
2What is Getting it right for every child ?
- A national programme which is changing the way
adults think and act in order to help all
children and young people grow, develop and reach
their full potential. - It is a long term change programme which ensures
children and young people are at the centre of
all activity about them and their lives.
3Why ?
- To improve outcomes for all children by helping
practitioners and organisations working with
children, young people and families to remove
obstacles that can block childrens paths on
their journey from birth to adulthood.
4Key concepts
- The key concept of Getting it right for every
child is a common, coordinated approach across
all agencies that supports the delivery of
appropriate, proportionate and timely help to
all children as they need it.
5Key concepts cont..
- A focus on improving outcomes for children and
young people based on the elements of well-being
for Scotlands children - An integral role for children, their families and
those with a relevant interest in reaching the
decisions that affect childrens lives - A strengthened role for universal services to
address concerns themselves, where they can,
without involvement of other agencies - A common approach to gaining consent and to
sharing information where appropriate - A coordinated and unified approach to identifying
concerns, actions and outcomes based on the
shared vision for Scotlands children
6Key concepts cont
- Streamlined planning processes that lead to
efficient provision of help for children - Consistent high standards of joint working and
communication, across Scotland, where more than
one agency needs to be involved - A lead professional to co-ordinate and monitor
multi- agency activity where necessary - The capacity to share demographic, assessment,
planning and outcome information electronically
within and across agency boundaries
7How ?
- Simplify systems
- Streamline practice
- Break down barriers between professions and
maximise the unique contribution of each - Work together, share information
- Provide better quality of help/ intervention
- Child/young person/family at the centre
8Who ?
- Getting it right for every child affects,
teachers, classroom assistants, nursery staff,
social workers, police, voluntary sector staff,
health professionals, youth workers etc - Also, those working with parents/ carers - like
criminal justice, substance misuse, mental heath
workers, housing officers.
9History and context
- For Scotlands Children
- Its Everyones Job to make sure Im alright
- Review of the Childrens Hearings System
- Getting it right for every child Proposals for
Action - Curriculum for Excellence
- (.children not getting the help they need when
they need)
10Implementing the programme
- Based on the elements of well-being for every
child/young person - Safe
- Healthy
- Active
- Nurtured
- Achieving
- Respected Responsible
- Included
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13New Administration
- Strategic Priorities
- Wealthier and Fairer, Healthier, Smarter, Safe
and Strong, Greener - All Directorates support all five strategic
objectives - Ministers expect policies to be consistent
across portfolios and that childrens issues
are taken fully into account - Ministers instinct is not to legislate
14New priorities
- Main focus is on securing improved outcomes
- Focus on
- early years
- early intervention
- prevention
- childrens rights.
15Implementing Getting it right for every child
- Need a shift in
- Culture
- Systems
- Practice
- - to help all children reach their full
potential. - Underpinned by practitioners being confident in
sharing information in an appropriate way.
16Culture change
- Focus on improving outcomes - co-operation,
communication and respect across professions - Address childrens holistic needs (not just teach
the subject, mend the broken bone, reprimand bad
behaviour whats behind this do others need to
know or be involved think prevention and early
intervention) - Involve children, young people and their carers
- Recognise each childs individual strengths,
pressures and needs - Act as a single integrated system to support
culture change
17Systems Change
- Map out processes, aim to reduce bureaucracy and
duplication pathfinder experiences - Introduce business change processes
- Streamline guidance and policies
- Operate within the national e-Care framework
- National data standards
- Agreed single plan for children
18Practice Change
- Embed principles and core components of Getting
it right for every child across all professions
that impact on children - New approaches, more collaboration, local
practice guides - Measure progress against national evaluation
framework - Evidence based practice, tools, models and
approaches
19GETTING IT RIGHT FOR EVERY CHILD
ALL CHILDREN YOUNG PEOPLE
CULTURE
SYSTEMS
PRACTICE
EVERYONE WORKING WITH CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE
FAMILIES UNIVERSAL - TARGETED
CHANGE PROCESS (National and Local)
CHANGE PROCESS (National and Local)
Partnership between Professions Streamline
Practice Child/Young Person at the Centre
20Sharing Information
- Critical to Getting it right for every child
- Based on an informed consent model
- Practitioners need to be confident about sharing
information where appropriate or legally
justifiable - Clear about the benefits for the child
21Implementation national
- The Scottish Government will support, facilitate
and promote change at local level while leading
on those areas that require a national solution - implement under existing legislation and consider
future legislation - support rather than apply targets/ impose orders
- Work with pathfinders and learning partners to
develop practice tools and models that can be
used nationally - focus on early intervention and on improving
outcomes - promote learning and understanding
- develop a national e-Care framework
- promote information sharing based on an informed
consent model - carry out robust evaluation
22Implementation - local
- Will take time, organic growth, need to manage
change across culture, systems and practice to - think about all aspects of the childs needs in
reaching their full potential - think about every adult in the childs network
who can help - one plan (Childs Plan) based on Scottish
assessment triangle and elements of SHANARI - share information based on an informed consent
model - action that is appropriate, proportionate, timely
23Draft Childrens Services (Scotland) Bill
- Not progressing in this parliamentary year
- Responses to the draft Bill consultation indicate
more work needs to be done to resolve the complex
issues affecting change across children's
services - A number of agencies concerned about early
legislation without further detailed
implications for services - Further work in pathfinder areas and other
development work throughout Scotland will help
determine how best to improve any legislative
changes
24Pathfinder activity
- Highland all services in the Inverness area,
around incremental themes including - Neonates and their families
- Early years children and their families
- Families with complex needs requiring
multi-agency support - Clydebank, Dumfries Galloway, Edinburgh North
Leith and Falkirk on one theme - Support for children in families exposed to
domestic abuse - Lanarkshires as Learning Partner, others to be
developed
25Learning Community
- From December
- Forum to share learning and developments on
implementing the programme - Information about pathfinders/ learning partner
lessons - Web based, by invitation
- Opportunity to exchange information and discuss
specific issues
26Useful links
- Getting it right for every child website
http//www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright - A handy link to a breakdown of all of our
publications in date order this includes brief
descriptions and a link to download each
publication in full http//www.scotland.gov.uk/ge
ttingitright/publications - Link to the general Getting it right area on the
Young Scot website - http//www.youngscot.org/gettingitright/