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Getting it Right for Every Child

Getting it Right for Every Child. Boyd McAdam Scottish Executive. Youth Justice and Children’s Hearings Division. Education Department. “Getting it Right for Every Child Team”. Genealogy . Partnership Agreement Vision For Scotland’s Children Integrated Services

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Getting it Right for Every Child

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  1. Getting it Right for Every Child Boyd McAdam Scottish Executive

  2. Youth Justice and Children’s Hearings Division Education Department “Getting it Right for Every Child Team”

  3. Genealogy Partnership Agreement Vision For Scotland’s Children Integrated Services Review of Children’s Hearings system Phase 1  GIRFEC

  4. GIRFEC ? + Grrr! Oh Bother! !

  5. Getting it Right for Every Child: • 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

  6. 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. Voluntary sector as well

  7. Why? We know the system is not working as it should: referrals, bureaucracy Children experience many meetings, many reports, confusing action plans Children have been failed Panel Members not well served: complaint numbers/ varied approach concern to us.

  8. Update • Healthy response: generally 75 - 95% support for most proposals. But more detail sought Some points not fully understood: • Children’s views different to professionals’ • Responses from agencies were quite agency focused. • Victims in Hearings not supported. Concern over local links.

  9. Issues • How do we make it happen? • Lead professional. • Concerns over information sharing/how single record will be achieved • Support structure • Victims/ offending • How is the voluntary sector brought in?

  10. Next Steps • Consultation published in detail • Advocacy research to be published at the same time as consultation responses. • Not received many views of the public. Will wish to take soundings as GIRFEC rolled out. Views of public/ young people on team. • Parliament

  11. How? - Strategy • Legislation • September 2006? • Enacted by March 2007? • Implementation (of legislation) 2008/9? • Governance, funding and structures • if needed • Practice change • From now • Pathfinder projects • Guidance/ training/ awareness developed

  12. Reporter Integrated assessment, plan and record Information sharing systems and procedures Quality improvement framework/ self evaluation Integrated inspections Vision/outcomes for children Integrated children’s services plans Delivery mechanisms

  13. National Implementation • Taking forward: Want to see GIRFEC rollout from the outset. Not wait for legislation. • Commitment to support and develop • Pathfinder pilots

  14. Workstreams • Workforce • Performance Management • Vision and Communication • Improved practice • Governance, Funding, Structures

  15. Issues for the voluntary sector • Duties on agencies: do they extend to the voluntary sector? • Accountability, when providing a service for agencies • Awareness/ training of staff • Access to information

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