Welcome To Murrayfield

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Welcome To Murrayfield

• Making Services Better for Scotlands Children
• Services for Children Conference 19 April 2006

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Graham Donaldson

• HM Senior Chief Inspector of Education

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AIMS
Services for Children

• To share and discuss the outcomes of the
  consultation on developing a Common Approach to
  Inspection of Services for Children and Young
  People
• To share current thinking on the moves towards a
  more coherent, proportionate and
  intelligence-led inspection system for children
  and young people
• To provide an overview of the wider context for
  inspection
• To provide information on the draft quality
  indicators for evaluating services for children
  and young people as a basis for further
  discussion and consultation
• To provide an update on the programme for the
  inspections of child protection

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Achieving Coherence in Inspecting Services for
Children and Young People

• Antony Clark Portfolio Manager, Audit Scotland
• Ronnie Hill - Director of Childrens Services,
  Care Commission
• Andrew Brown Her Majestys Chief Inspector of
  Constabulary, HMIC
• Annette Bruton Chief Inspector, HM Inspectorate
  of Education
• David Steel Chief Executive, NHS Quality
  Improvement Scotland
• Alistair Gaw Depute Chief Social Work
  Inspector, Social Work Inspection Agency

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Antony ClarkPortfolio Manager
Audit Scotland
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Audit Scotland

• A partnership approach with HMIE since 2000
• Auditors full members of inspection team
• Auditors provide judgements on Resource and
  Financial Management
• INEA findings feed into annual audit process
  (and vice-versa)
• Joint Accounts Commission/HMIE reports

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Links with Best Value and Modernised Audit

• National framework local focus
• Shared risk-assessments with HMIE
• Common language for performance assessments
• Reliance placed on each others judgements

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INEA2 not more of the same!

• Intelligence-led and risk-based
• Proportionate audit and inspection activity
• Tailored local reporting
• Evolving in line with broader inspection
  landscape

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Audit Scotland

• The future?
• Less is more
• Fewer better targeted inspection visits
• Reduced inspection burden
• Less assurance, more added value

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Ronnie Hill Director of Childrens
Services Care Commission
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Care Commission examples of contribution

• Reducing Bureaucracy
• Integrated Inspection of Care and Education
  Services
• Early Years
• School Care Accommodation
• Secure Accommodation
• Electronic Annual Returns
• Sharing information with other regulators and
  policy colleagues

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Care Commission

• Sharing Evaluations
• Themed Inspections
• Child Protection
• Safe Recruitment
• Mapping the National Care Standards against the
  Quality Indicators

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Andrew Brown HM Chief Inspector of
ConstabularyHMIC
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HMIC

• EFQM Approach
• Inspection protocol questions fit conveniently
  with QIF
• Eight forces and common services
• Five year cycle for Primary Inspections
• Two interim reviews
• Thematic Inspections
• Final protocols informed by contemporary evidence

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HMIC

• EFQM Approach
• Therefore flexible
• Can avoid areas of recent scrutiny (e.g.
  Highland)
• Can focus on areas of concern
• In cumulus probably more-but!

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Annette BrutonChief InspectorHM
Inspectorate of Education
Services for Children
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HMIE Streamlining Inspection
Services for Children

• More proportionate approach to inspection of
  schools, local authorities and community
  learning and development
• Overarching framework will mean better approach
  to gathering together what is already known
• Education authority and CLD inspections brought
  together
• Psychological services inspections will be part
  of the inspection of education authorities

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HMIE Streamlining Inspection
Services for Children

• More intelligence based inspection the role of
  District Inspectors
• Developing portal technology for information
  sharing
• Range of models in education authority
  inspection to recognise effective delivery of
  services

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David SteelChief ExecutiveNHS
Quality Improvement Scotland
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NHS QIS

• NHS QIS is committed to assisting NHS to play a
  full part in joint inspection
• NHS QIS is not an inspectorate but can make a
  distinctive contribution
• Some experience already of joint working and of
  its benefits

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NHS Quality Improvement Scotland Review of
Learning Disability

• A partnership approach since publication of NHS
  QIS Quality Indicators in 2002
• Review teams include health professionals,
  social workers, service users and carers
• Every NHS Scotland Board and Independent Sector
  services visited
• Focus on hospital closure and quality of care
• Findings feed into SEHD performance assessment
  process, Care Commission registration process
  and future models for inspection of services for
  people with learning disabilities

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The Future?

• Effective partnershipthe outcomes we should aim
  for
• Service users and carers involved at every stage
• Quality improvement as well as QA
• Sharing information, knowledge based advice and
  scheduling of activity
• Integrated services that meet peoples needs

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Alistair GawDepute Chief Social
Work InspectorSocial Work Inspection Agency
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Social Work Inspection Agency

• For performance inspections
• Aligning inspection methodology
• Aligning self evaluation frameworks
• Sharing information

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For thematic inspections

• Codes of practice
• 2 for the price of 1