Getting it Right for Every Child

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Getting it Right for Every Child

• IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE
• Bill Alexander
• Head of Service
• NHS Highland/Highland Council

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GIRFEC success measures

• Children get the help they need it when they need
  it.
• Action improves their situation, supports the
  achievement of better outcomes, and reduces risk.
• More time is spent by workers in direct work with
  children and families, and less in bureaucratic
  processes.
• Children and families say they know about the
  services and support available to them, have
  confidence in using them believe their needs are
  being addressed and their views heard.
• Communities report being more confident about
  services and how community concerns are being
  dealt with.

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Youth Crime Antisocial Behavioursome
challenges

• Who do we work with?Persistent offenders, other
  offenders, antisocial behaviour, substance
  misusers, early intervention
• Who does it?- joined up working- contribution
  of health education- which intervention/s for
  each young person
• What are we doing?- reduce crime and better
  outcome for offenders- interface with other
  features of need vulnerability poor
  achievement/health, substance misuse

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Youth Crime Antisocial Behaviour some themes

• Maximise voluntary participation, minimise
  compulsion exclusion
• Reassure communities, respond to
  concernsmaximise public / victim participation
  in restoration
• Demonstrate success
• Needing direction

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System drowning in bureaucracy
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How many referrals go to a Hearing?
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System drowning in bureaucracy

• The number of children attending Hearings as a
  proportion of all children referred dropped
  slightly, from 0.8 in 2003/04 to 0.7 in 2004/05.
• In 2004/05, 24 of cases that went to a Hearing
  DID NOT result in compulsory measures

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There has to be a better way of doing things!
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What is needed

• Response which
• Recognises offending behaviour and addresses it
• Recognises impact on victims /communities
• Takes action which is seen as addressing
  behaviour
• Is effective

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What will be different in a GIRFEC world

• Common pathway - single assessment, planning
  and review process- changed systems and
  structures
• Integrated Assessment Framework
• Single child record
• Lead professional
• Less/no referrals managed system
• Emphasis on action not service
• Explicit threshold for compulsory measures

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