Getting it right for every child

1. Getting it right for every child Lorraine Spalding Getting it right for every child team

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

5. Key concepts cont.. • A focus on improving outcomes for children and young people based on the elements of well-being for Scotland’s children • An integral role for children, their families and those with a relevant interest in reaching the decisions that affect children’s 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 Scotland’s children

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. History and context • For Scotland’s Children • It’s Everyone’s Job to make sure I’m alright • Review of the Children’s Hearings System • Getting it right for every child: Proposals for Action • Curriculum for Excellence • (….children not getting the help they need when they need)

10. Implementing the programme • Based on the elements of well-being for every child/young person: • Safe • Healthy • Active • Nurtured • Achieving • Respected & Responsible • Included

13. 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 children’s issues are taken fully into account • Ministers’ instinct is not to legislate

14. New priorities • Main focus is on securing improved outcomes • Focus on • early years • early intervention • prevention • children’s rights.

15. 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.

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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

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

23. Draft Children’s 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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/gettingitright/publications • Link to the general Getting it right area on the Young Scot website: • http://www.youngscot.org/gettingitright/