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Children’s Services: Integration and Information Sharing

Children’s Services: Integration and Information Sharing. Colin MacLean Children, Young People and Social Care Group . Vision for an ambitious Scotland. In order to become successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens

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Children’s Services: Integration and Information Sharing

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  1. Children’s Services: Integration and Information Sharing Colin MacLean Children, Young People and Social Care Group

  2. Vision for an ambitious Scotland • In order to become successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens • All Scotland’s children and young people need to be nurtured, safe, active, healthy, achieving, included, respected and responsible

  3. The child at the centre Our task: To work together with colleagues across Scotland in all agencies, the voluntary sector and the wider community to ensure children and young people get the help they need when they need it

  4. What we are doing to deliver integrated Children’s Services • Integrated children’s services plans • Quality improvement/ inspection • Workforce development • Reforming Children’s Hearings system • Common system for assessment • Information sharing including eCare

  5. Integrated Children’s Services Plans • Brings together separate plans for school education, children’s social work, child health and youth justice • Encourage multi-agency approach – improve outcomes, better use of human and financial resources • Key element in delivering vision

  6. Quality Improvement/Inspection • QI frameworks being developed for children’s services and for social work • Inspection system for child protection • To be rolled out to apply to all services for children • Three layers: • Outcomes for child • Service delivery • Strategic management

  7. Workforce development • Roles and responsibilities • Leadership development • Qualifications and training • Workforce planning • Career structures

  8. Common system for assessment • Framework being developed • Being checked against requirements of all existing systems, and developing jointly with ASN team • Based on ‘DoH triangle’ – linked to vision • Common set of data items and data standards – so different assessments can be easily merged – and complex assessments can built on earlier work • Allows each agency to minimise assessment effort

  9. DoH Triangle

  10. Information sharing barriers – real and perceived • Legislation • Policy and Guidance • Culture and Practice • Technology and Protocols • Pressure of work • Lack of awareness

  11. eCare pilots • Funded by MGF 2 • Roll out eCare framework to children’s services • More agencies involved • 4 pilots

  12. eCare pilots • Integrated Children’s Services Record • Personal Care Record • Integrated Assessment Framework • Child Protection Messages

  13. Recent Cases • It’s not just technology • Effective information sharing strategy • Systems understood by senior managers • Effective partnerships • Link between adult and children’s systems

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