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Fit for the Future and for Purpose Netta Maciver Principal Reporter/Chief Executive

Fit for the Future and for Purpose Netta Maciver Principal Reporter/Chief Executive Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration Date: 25 September 2008. www.scra.gov.uk. Care and justice system for children in Scotland. Deals with care and protection of children as well as offending.

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Fit for the Future and for Purpose Netta Maciver Principal Reporter/Chief Executive

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  1. Fit for the Future and for Purpose Netta Maciver Principal Reporter/Chief Executive Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration Date: 25 September 2008 www.scra.gov.uk

  2. Care and justice system for children in Scotland. Deals withcare and protection of children as well as offending. Key principles: Child’s welfare should be paramount in all decisions. Child’s views should be taken into account in decisions about them. Children’s Hearings System

  3. Historical Context • Rapid rise of non-offence referrals to the Reporter (graph shows number of children)

  4. Recognition that not all of these referrals were necessary Feeling that the CHS was becoming a gateway to service provision Need to allow the Reporter to concentrate on those children requiring compulsory measures of supervision Historical Context (cont’d)

  5. Scottish Government Review in 2004 Found broad support for the principles and ethos of the CHS Identified some challenges and scope for change and development of the system The Children’s Hearings System Review

  6. Getting it Right for Every Child established some key principles Every child gets the help they need, when they need it Integrated, co-ordinated approach across agencies Child at the centre of the system Getting it Right for Every Child

  7. GIRFEC’s fundamental principles are aligned with those of the CHS CHS is the means of providing compulsory intervention where necessary Children should receive help on a voluntary basis wherever possible, without the need for referral to the Reporter Child is always at the centre GIRFEC & the Children’s Hearings System

  8. Ministerial Task Group on non-offence referrals Pre-referral screening initiatives Pathfinder projects SCRA initiatives Single agency for the CHS Workstreams

  9. What’s the impact locally?

  10. What changes are we seeing? • Reduction in the rate of non-offence referrals • 40,204 children in 2007/08 • However numbers of Hearings and Supervision Requirements are both up in 2007/08

  11. Child Protection Orders slightly down from 624 to 518 in 2007/08 SCRA research into CPOs in Edinburgh 30% newborn babies Half on child protection register 52% had open referral or subject to SR 87% of grounds were lack of parental care What changes are we seeing?

  12. Reporters dealing with increasingly complex cases, but more of the right children Change in the source of referral Better working practices So where are we?

  13. Focus on outcomes-the so what question? For children who do not require compulsory measures And for those who do More multi-agency planning and delivery Clarity around interventions A single body-an administrative change or one that is more aspirational that can answer the so what question? Looking forward

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