Crannog

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Crannog

• Steve McCreadie
• Assistant Regional Director

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The next 15 minutes

• How the journey began
• The high points
• The challenges
• Collaborative advantage
• What we have learned about partnership

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What is Crannog?

• Dumfries and Galloway wide
• Three teams, each with Service managers, Teachers
  and Social Education workers
• Young people aged 12-18 who are, or at risk of
  repeated exclusion from school.
• 65 of young people are Looked After with around
  half that number Looked after and accommodated.

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Contracts

• We began work in 1997
• Contract renewed 2000
• Preferred provider status 2003
• Formal partnership agreement early 2006

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High points

• Positive outcomes for young people and families
• Establishing credibility with staff in schools
  and elsewhere
• UK Community Care Award for Inter agency work
  2001
• Publication of independent evaluation and
  research
• Securing Futurebuilders funding
• Crannog Plus developments 2006

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Challenges

• Establishing consistent evidence based practice
  model
• Establishing credibility with staff in schools
  and elsewhere
• Responding to structural and staffing changes,
  internal and external
• Meeting the needs of different stakeholders, e.g.
  Social Services and Education
• Securing service level agreements and contracts
  every three years

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Evaluation

• University of Stirling, (incorporating a Best
  value review) 2003
• University of Stirling 2005
• Partners in evaluation 2003
• Edinburgh University 2003-8

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Collaborative advantage

• Positive and evidenced outcomes for young people
• Additional services provided through securing
  funds only available through partnership with
  vol. sector
• 2003-7 Revenue 850k
• New purpose built 1.4m childrens services
  centre
• Contribution to policy and practice development
• Inter agency training programme
• Co directed two inter disciplinary conferences on
  Education of Looked after children

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Rhetoric and Reality (2003)

• Process
• Practice
• Testing times
• Leadership

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What keeps partnership going?

• a sense of a common vision
• shared values coupled with openness and trust in
  order to check out, challenge and test those
  values
• planning that is oriented towards performance
  with a focus on outcomes and accountability
• mechanisms, structures and systems that deal with
  strategy, case review and systems related issues

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What keeps partnership going?

• the active involvement of young people and
  families in programme design and delivery
• a range of human qualities including, humour,
  respect, tolerance, determination, tact,
  sensitivity
• being open to other ways of thinking and being
  willing to give things up

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What else is needed?

• role of champions
• rigorous commitment to outcomes and services for
  young people.
• balance tough accountability with integrity
  dealing fairly with partners
• secure best value possible and seek collaborative
  advantage
• keep an open and creative mind

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