ABERDEENSHIRE INTEGRATEDASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK

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• ABERDEENSHIREINTEGRATEDASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK

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Policy Context

• For Scotlands Children
• Its Everyones Job
• Growing Support
• Getting Our Priorities Right
• Hidden Harm
• Health for all Children
• Additional Support for Learning (Act)
• GIRFEC

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Aim of GIRFEC

• Get help when you need it and are central to
  finding solutions
• Consistent and equitable approach, working more
  effectively together to improve outcomes
• Clear about personal responsibility and
  contribute to collective responsibility
• Parents and Children benefit of a collaborative
  approach
• Agencies/professionals time. Appropriate,
  proportionate, timely action. Minimum paperwork,
  bureaucracy and duplication

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Principles of Aberdeenshire IAF

• Potential to be integrated
• Right help at right time
• Information shared
• Child at the centre
• Proportionate interventions
• Rationalisation of meetings
• Comprehensive integrated Action Planning

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Road Tests

• Project Board
• Trial of IAF process
• Learning and Evaluation
• Ownership by CSN
• Alford Inverurie
• Key Tasks and Targets
• Champions
• Roll Out across Aberdeenshire

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Success Indicators

• Improved working relationships.
• Information sharing
• Improved outcomes for children families.
• Resources targeted to identified need.
• Timescales QI Indicators met.
• Acceptance fulfilment of Lead Professional
  role.

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Success Indicators

• Shared understanding of risk thresholds.
• Decrease in duplication of effort less
  meetings.
• Strategic targeting of resources
• Culture Change all of the above.

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Culture is the result of messages that are
received about what is really valued. People
align their Behaviour to these messages in order
to fit in. Changing culture requires a
systematic and planned change to these messages,
whose sources are behaviour, symbols and systems.

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QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
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The IAF Process

• What are the triggers?
• What do I do next?
• Is this a Child Protection Issue?
• Is the child family known to other agencies
• Are needs being met?
• Ask the right questions?

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Ask the Right Questions

• What can I do for this child/family?
• What can my agency do for this child/family?
• Are there others involved?
• What do the child/family want?
• How do we achieve this?

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IAF Tools

• Assessment Triangle
• Core Record
• Chronology of Significant Events
• Contact Record
• Action Plans
• IAF Operational Standards?
• Draft Childrens Services (Scotland) Bill

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Assessment Triangle

• Key element of framework
• Template to structure thinking
• Identifies generic areas of importance in child
  development
• Guides holistic assessment
• Consider all component parts
• Ensures inclusion of child family

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Chronology

• Achievements, Events, Developments, Changes,
  Influences
• Observation of patterns and events
• Recording of circumstances experiences
• Recording of milestones
• Think about how this information is formatted.

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Core Record

• Combination of all information held
• Information dated and sourced
• Information Sharing Protocols
• Consent Confidentiality Protocols
• Held by Lead Professional

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Action Plan

• Streamline Rationalisation
• One agreed/co-ordinated Plan
• Child family play central role
• Simplify process for professionals
• Reduce meetings for all

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Contact Record

• Provides consistency continuity
• Record communication with child family
• Record all incoming outgoing communication
• Can be used as evidence

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Operational Standards

• Collates evidence
• Reminds us of what is required
• Fits with Quality Assurance approach
• Satisfaction Survey

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Questions/Comments
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Lead Professional

• Child family central to the process
• Child family understand about sharing of
  information
• Develop productive relationships
• Liasing between child family professionals
• Advocate on behalf of child family
• Gather information
• Assess analyse information

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• Review progress
• Review resource situation
• Monitor co-ordinate plans and progress

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Questions/Comments

• Coffee