Improving services for children Excellence for all

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Improving services for childrenExcellence for
all

• Workshop C7A
• Shared evaluation of our joint practice
• QI 2.1

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Workshop C7A

• Working together to arrive at a shared evaluation
  of our joint practice.
• Using our evaluation to identify the appropriate
  next steps to develop practice and plan
  improvement
• QI 2.1 Impact on Children and Young People.

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Aims 1 2 of workshop C7A

• To gain experience in working within the
  structure of a QI.
• To gain understanding of the complementary roles
  played by partner organisations in promoting and
  encouraging effective partnership working.

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Aims 3 4 of workshop C7A

• To arrive at a shared evaluation of our joint
  practice against the QI 2.1 Impact on Children
  and Young People
• To use our evaluation to identify the appropriate
  next steps to develop practice and plan
  improvement.

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Intended outcomes 1 - 3

• We will
• be more experienced in working with QIs
• have an understanding of the illustrations within
  the QIs and
• gain awareness and understanding of the work of
  partner organisations.

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Intended outcomes 4 5

• We will
• be able to work collaboratively to make
  evaluations based on evidence and
• be able to draw up an action plan to develop and
  improve practice.

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The focus in this workshop is on QI 2.1 (Part 1)

• This indicator relates to the impact of services
  from providers individually and collectively on
  the lives and life opportunities of all children
  and young people. It focuses particularly on
  their current experiences.
• It deals directly with evidence which
  demonstrates the extent to which children and
  young people are developing and achieving their
  full potential against the seven outcomes for
  children and young people in Scotland.

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The focus in this workshop is on QI 2.1 (Part 2)

• The first theme relates to the extent of impact
  as indicated by quantitative and qualitative data
  and direct observation.
• The second theme examines what it is that
  children and young people report about their
  experiences of services.

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How good are our integrated services for children
and young people now?
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Workshop C7A Tasks 1 and 2

• Using the illustrations underline what you
  consider to be the key words and sentences in
  indicator QI 2.1.
• Through discussion agree the key words and
  sentences and focus of each of the themes for QI
  2.1.
• Now use these key words and sentences to identify
  the evidence that is in place across the partner
  organisations for this QI.

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How do you know?Ways of gathering evidence
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Possible sources of evidence theme 1 (Part 1)

• Incidents of violence, bullying, anti-social and
  racially motivated behaviours.
• Evidence from inspections and self-evaluation
  activities relating to activities geared to meet
  the needs of children and young people.

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Possible sources of evidence theme 1 (Part 2)

• Levels of attendance, retention and progression
  in, and exclusion from, formal and informal
  activities.
• Access to services, including approaches to
  encouraging involvement.
• The extent to which the needs of individuals are
  met, including those of lowest performing
  learners, looked after children, vulnerable and
  minority groups as indicated by rates of
  progression, achievement of individual targets
  for learning, social skills, active and healthy
  lifestyles.

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Possible sources of evidence theme 2 (Part 1)

• Opportunities to participate and develop
  effectively as individuals, in groups and with
  staff and volunteers from services.
• Evidence from focus groups on
• the extent to which they feel involved and
  consulted and
• the achievement of the 7 outcomes in Scotlands
  vision.
• Access to services, including innovative
  approaches to encouraging involvement.

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Possible sources of evidence theme 2 (Part 2)

• Opportunities to express their views on the
  quality and relevance of services and how service
  providers respond to these views.
• The extent to which they feel valued and
  supported by services.
• Participation rates and performance in sporting,
  cultural, citizenship and youth work activities.

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Workshop C7A Task 3Taking a high-level view

• Come to a consensus view of the quality of
  practice across the partner organisations using
  the six point scale.
• Complete the blank grid for QI 2.1 to give an
  evaluation of current practice in each of the
  themes noting four key pieces of evidence to back
  up your evaluation.

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Workshop C7A Task 3Taking a high-level view

• Your evidence and professional judgement of the
  level of performance should be based on the
  evidence that each of you has gathered in your
  normal working practice or from evaluations
  carried out on work in your organisation linked
  to integrated childrens services.

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Workshop C7A Task 3 (completing the grid)

• The four pieces of evidence may consist of a
  combination of good practice and areas for
  improvement and will determine the level you
  assign to the performance
• An award of a level 4 requires 3 pieces of good
  practice and 1 area for improvement
• An award of a level 3 requires 2 pieces of good
  practice and 2 areas for improvement.

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Workshop C7A Task 4

• Take the evaluations and information from task 3
  and using the traffic lights grid in the pack,
  agree within your group
• Green strengths, things to continue to do for
  your own multi-agency group
• Amber things to think about starting or
  improving, what stakeholders might be surveyed or
  interviewed and
• Red things to stop doing, performance
  information to be reviewed.

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The six-point scale (Levels 6 4)

• 6 - Excellent outstanding, worth disseminating,
  sustainable
• 5 - Very good very few areas for improvement,
  not significantly diminishing experience, improve
  further
• 4 - Good important strengths, outweighing areas
  for improvement but the latter diminishing
  experience in some way, take action

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The six-point scale (Levels 3 1)

• 3 - Adequate strengths just outweigh weaknesses,
  the latter diminish experience, take action
• 2 - Weak some strengths, important weaknesses,
  the latter substantially diminish experience,
  planned action
• 1 - Unsatisfactory major weaknesses, experience
  at risk, help needed