Getting it right for every child

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Getting it right for every child

• Lorraine Spalding
• Getting it right for every child team

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What is Getting it right for every child ?

• A national programme which is changing the way
  adults think and act in order to help all
  children and young people grow, develop and reach
  their full potential.
• It is a long term change programme which ensures
  children and young people are at the centre of
  all activity about them and their lives.

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Why ?

• To improve outcomes for all children by helping
  practitioners and organisations working with
  children, young people and families to remove
  obstacles that can block childrens paths on
  their journey from birth to adulthood.

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Key concepts

• The key concept of Getting it right for every
  child is a common, coordinated approach across
  all agencies that supports the delivery of
  appropriate, proportionate and timely help to
  all children as they need it.

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Key concepts cont..

• A focus on improving outcomes for children and
  young people based on the elements of well-being
  for Scotlands children
• An integral role for children, their families and
  those with a relevant interest in reaching the
  decisions that affect childrens lives
• A strengthened role for universal services to
  address concerns themselves, where they can,
  without involvement of other agencies
• A common approach to gaining consent and to
  sharing information where appropriate
• A coordinated and unified approach to identifying
  concerns, actions and outcomes based on the
  shared vision for Scotlands children

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Key concepts cont

• Streamlined planning processes that lead to
  efficient provision of help for children
• Consistent high standards of joint working and
  communication, across Scotland, where more than
  one agency needs to be involved
• A lead professional to co-ordinate and monitor
  multi- agency activity where necessary
• The capacity to share demographic, assessment,
  planning and outcome information electronically
  within and across agency boundaries

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How ?

• Simplify systems
• Streamline practice
• Break down barriers between professions and
  maximise the unique contribution of each
• Work together, share information
• Provide better quality of help/ intervention
• Child/young person/family at the centre

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Who ?

• Getting it right for every child affects,
  teachers, classroom assistants, nursery staff,
  social workers, police, voluntary sector staff,
  health professionals, youth workers etc
• Also, those working with parents/ carers - like
  criminal justice, substance misuse, mental heath
  workers, housing officers.

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History and context

• For Scotlands Children
• Its Everyones Job to make sure Im alright
• Review of the Childrens Hearings System
• Getting it right for every child Proposals for
  Action
• Curriculum for Excellence
• (.children not getting the help they need when
  they need)

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Implementing the programme

• Based on the elements of well-being for every
  child/young person
• Safe
• Healthy
• Active
• Nurtured
• Achieving
• Respected Responsible
• Included

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New Administration

• Strategic Priorities
• Wealthier and Fairer, Healthier, Smarter, Safe
  and Strong, Greener
• All Directorates support all five strategic
  objectives
• Ministers expect policies to be consistent
  across portfolios and that childrens issues
  are taken fully into account
• Ministers instinct is not to legislate

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New priorities

• Main focus is on securing improved outcomes
• Focus on
• early years
• early intervention
• prevention
• childrens rights.

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Implementing Getting it right for every child

• Need a shift in
• Culture
• Systems
• Practice
• - to help all children reach their full
  potential.
• Underpinned by practitioners being confident in
  sharing information in an appropriate way.

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Culture change

• Focus on improving outcomes - co-operation,
  communication and respect across professions
• Address childrens holistic needs (not just teach
  the subject, mend the broken bone, reprimand bad
  behaviour whats behind this do others need to
  know or be involved think prevention and early
  intervention)
• Involve children, young people and their carers
• Recognise each childs individual strengths,
  pressures and needs
• Act as a single integrated system to support
  culture change

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Systems Change

• Map out processes, aim to reduce bureaucracy and
  duplication pathfinder experiences
• Introduce business change processes
• Streamline guidance and policies
• Operate within the national e-Care framework
• National data standards
• Agreed single plan for children

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Practice Change

• Embed principles and core components of Getting
  it right for every child across all professions
  that impact on children
• New approaches, more collaboration, local
  practice guides
• Measure progress against national evaluation
  framework
• Evidence based practice, tools, models and
  approaches

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GETTING IT RIGHT FOR EVERY CHILD
ALL CHILDREN YOUNG PEOPLE
CULTURE
SYSTEMS
PRACTICE
EVERYONE WORKING WITH CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE
FAMILIES UNIVERSAL - TARGETED
CHANGE PROCESS (National and Local)
CHANGE PROCESS (National and Local)
Partnership between Professions Streamline
Practice Child/Young Person at the Centre
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Sharing Information

• Critical to Getting it right for every child
• Based on an informed consent model
• Practitioners need to be confident about sharing
  information where appropriate or legally
  justifiable
• Clear about the benefits for the child

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Implementation national

• The Scottish Government will support, facilitate
  and promote change at local level while leading
  on those areas that require a national solution
• implement under existing legislation and consider
  future legislation
• support rather than apply targets/ impose orders
• Work with pathfinders and learning partners to
  develop practice tools and models that can be
  used nationally
• focus on early intervention and on improving
  outcomes
• promote learning and understanding
• develop a national e-Care framework
• promote information sharing based on an informed
  consent model
• carry out robust evaluation

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Implementation - local

• Will take time, organic growth, need to manage
  change across culture, systems and practice to
• think about all aspects of the childs needs in
  reaching their full potential
• think about every adult in the childs network
  who can help
• one plan (Childs Plan) based on Scottish
  assessment triangle and elements of SHANARI
• share information based on an informed consent
  model
• action that is appropriate, proportionate, timely

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Draft Childrens Services (Scotland) Bill

• Not progressing in this parliamentary year
• Responses to the draft Bill consultation indicate
  more work needs to be done to resolve the complex
  issues affecting change across children's
  services
• A number of agencies concerned about early
  legislation without further detailed
  implications for services
• Further work in pathfinder areas and other
  development work throughout Scotland will help
  determine how best to improve any legislative
  changes

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Pathfinder activity

• Highland all services in the Inverness area,
  around incremental themes including
• Neonates and their families
• Early years children and their families
• Families with complex needs requiring
  multi-agency support
• Clydebank, Dumfries Galloway, Edinburgh North
  Leith and Falkirk on one theme
• Support for children in families exposed to
  domestic abuse
• Lanarkshires as Learning Partner, others to be
  developed

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Learning Community

• From December
• Forum to share learning and developments on
  implementing the programme
• Information about pathfinders/ learning partner
  lessons
• Web based, by invitation
• Opportunity to exchange information and discuss
  specific issues

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Useful links

• Getting it right for every child website
  http//www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright
• A handy link to a breakdown of all of our
  publications in date order this includes brief
  descriptions and a link to download each
  publication in full http//www.scotland.gov.uk/ge
  ttingitright/publications
• Link to the general Getting it right area on the
  Young Scot website
• http//www.youngscot.org/gettingitright/