The Getting it Right for Every Child Agenda

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TheGetting it Right for Every ChildAgenda
Boyd McAdam Scottish Executive
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Background

• Partnership Agreement 178 We will review the
  Childrens Hearings system to develop and improve
  the current service. Scotland has led the world
  in developing a system that puts the child at its
  centre, involves local people in deciding what
  the right thing to do is and focuses on the care
  and welfare of young people. We will hold on to
  those fundamental principles. It is now however,
  time to review the system to ensure that it has
  the right set up and adequate resources to ensure
  that it does the best possible job to protect
  children
• Vision SHANARI
• For Scotlands Children
• Its everyones job to make sure Im alright
• Integrated Services

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Challenges now

• We know the system is not working as it should (
  referrals, bureaucracy) practitioners under
  pressure
• Children experience many meetings, many reports,
  confusing action plans
• There have been high profile failures
• Panel Members concerns

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• Review of Childrens Hearings system
• GIRFEC

Consultation responses
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GIRFEC ?

Grrr!
Oh Bother!
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Benefits of change

• Children get the help they need when they need
  it.
• No more referrals.
• Responses to meet need are appropriate,
  proportionate and timely (APT response)
• Strengthening the capacity of families and
  communities to meet the needs of children
• Strengthening the capacity of practitioners
  across the board (education, health, social work,
  police, etc)

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Benefits

• Unified approach will strengthen integration
  agenda and improve delivery and outcomes for all
  children
• Minimise bureaucracy and deliver better outcomes
  for children
• Thinking whole child and action to address need
  applies to everyone, incl youth justice, schools,
  health, child protection

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What will this mean?

• Practice change
• Culture change
• Breaking down barriers
• Real partnership working

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Issues to work through

• Lead professional.
• Concerns over information sharing/how single
  record will be achieved
• Support structure
• Victims/ offending
• How do we make it happen?

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How?

• Practice change
• From now
• Pathfinder projects
• Guidance/ training/ awareness developed
• Legislation
• Implementation (of legislation) 2008/09/10
• Governance, funding and structures
• if needed

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Highland Pathfinder

• All agencies in an area working to implement the
  child-centred approach within existing
  legislation
• Starting roll out from September
• Development of tools/ training/ supporting
  practice change/ SARP
• Learning lessons for Scotland roll-out
• Evaluation success for child and family staff
  agencies

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Evaluation

• For children, families and communities
• Children and families experience a co-ordinated
  and unified approach to having their needs met.
• For staff
• more time to spend on activities that will
  improve outcomes for children
• For agencies
• effective polices, processes, structures and
  tools for the delivery of good outcomes

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What we will do

• Single record
• (supported by electronic sharing of information,
  not a database)
• Single assessment
• Single plan
• Evaluation
• Support tools/ guidance

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Key issues

• Drug misusing parents
• Domestic abuse
• Youth justice/ persistent offending/ anti-social
  behaviour

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What children need

• Responses which
• meet their needs
• recognise offending behaviour and address it
• recognise impact on victims/ communities
• take the actions which are needed to address
  behaviour
• are effective

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Our actions need to be

• Integrated
• Co-ordinated
• Appropriate, proportionate and timely

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Meet Jamie
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The Past
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The Future
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