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Early Years Collaborative
Margot Black
Jacky Gillan
Practice Development Team
• Multi-disciplinary
• Support Community Planning Partnerships to develop plans that will
achieve local priorities and those set out by the Taskforce
• Help to build capacity, practical knowledge and skills
• Gather and celebrate excellent local practice and spread knowledge
of what works
• Facilitate the use of performance improvement or change
management approaches
We’ve been building will & generating
ideas for a while!
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Dr Bruce Perry – neuroscience and brain development
Effective Provision of Pre-School Education (EPPE) 2004
‘Getting it Right for Every Child’ GIRFEC – 2004 onwards
Chief Medical Officer’s report – CMO 2007
Early Years Framework – 2008
The Foundation Years - Frank Field – 2010
Early Intervention - Graham Allen – 2010
Scottish Government Economic Modelling (Nov 2010)
Joining the Dots – Report from Professor Susan Deacon (March 2011)
Ongoing neuroscientific and epigenetic research
Scottish Government Policies
• Getting it Right for Every Child
• Early Years Framework
• Equally Well
• Achieving Our Potential
• Curriculum for Excellence
• Early Years Change Fund
• National Parenting Strategy
• Play Strategy
• Children & Young People (Scotland) Act 2014
Our Ambition…
To make Scotland the best place in the world
to grow up in by improving outcomes, and
reducing inequalities, for all babies, children,
mothers, fathers and families across Scotland
to ensure that all children have the best start
in life and are ready to succeed
-9
months
to 1 year
1 year to
30
months
30
months
to
Primary
school
Start of
primary
school to
age 8 / P3
Leadership
Scotland
– the
best
place in
the world
to grow
up
Stretch Aims
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To reduce by 15%, the rates of stillbirth & infant mortality by the end of
2015
85% of all children reached all of the expected developmental
milestones at the time of the child’s 27‐30 month child health review, by
end‐2016
90% of all children reached all of the expected developmental
milestones at the time the child starts primary school, by end‐2017
90% of all children will have reached all of the expected developmental
milestones and learning outcomes by the end of Primary 4, by end-2021
Stretch Aims
Moving from the ‘What’ we need to do
to ‘How’ we make it happen
 Do  Study  Act  Plan  Do  Study  Act
“What’s next? ”
“Did it work?”
“What will
happen if we try
something
different?”
“Let’s try it!”
Cycles of Tests Build Confidence
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theories,
hunches,
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Learning
from data
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Changes that
will result in
improvement
Practice Example
• By the end of June 90% of children at
Grassmarket Nursery will receive a bedtime
story at least 3 times a week
Testing
Baseline
1 - Change the name and provide a
leaflet.
2 - Move the bookstand to the entrance.
3 - Choose more than one book.
90% of children at Grassmarket nursery school
will receive a bedtime story at least 3 times a
week.
Children receiving a bedtime story
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Goal
Percentage
of children
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Median
50
Family garden
party
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Children receiving a bedtime story
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Before change
1st change
Weekly
change
2nd change
3rd change
53% of parents said the new Bedtime Story system has
led to them reading to their child more often
Last week
84%
of our children said they had a bedtime story.
THAT’S FANTASTIC!
Key Changes
1) Early support for pregnancy and
2) Attachment and Child Development beyond maternity
services
3) Continuity of care in transitions between services
4) 27-30 month Child Health review
5) Developing parents’ skills
6) Family Engagement to Support Early Learning
7) Addressing Child Poverty
8) Leadership/Workstream 4
Developing a multi-level
information and resource
pack on the Early Years
Collaborative and the Model
for Improvement
Involving the FE sector
What needs to happen to spread the word
amongst the FE sector?
Your thoughts…..
Getting Involved
• http://www.scotland.gov.uk
• http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/People/YoungPeople/early-years/early-years-collaborative
• http://www.ihi.org
• http://www.qihub.scot.nhs.uk
#bestplacetogrowup
@eycollaborative