Transcript NHSGGC Operational Group (Partnerships) 7.4.09. NHSGGC

Getting it right for every child
Enquire Seminar
16th March 2011
Robin McKendrick
Getting it right for every child
Getting it right for every child
•Getting it right for every child is a
vision led political and societal
transformational change programme
•Managed using Managing Succesfull
Programmes (MSP) principles
•Is the national programme that aims to
improve outcomes for all children and
young people in Scotland.
Policy Framework
WHAT
HOW
• Early Years Framework
• Equally Well
• Achieving our Potential
 Curriculum for Excellence
 Support for Learning
 More Choices More Chances
 Youth justice
 LAC
 Better Health Better Care
 Hall 4
 Towards a Mentally Flourishing
Scotland
 Road to Recovery
GIRFEC
=
TRANSFORMATIONAL
CHANGE
The 10 Core Components
1.
Focus on improving outcomes for young people,
based on shared understanding of well-being
2. Common approach to gaining consent and sharing
information where appropriate
3.
Integral role for children, young people and
families
4. Co-ordinated approach to assessing needs, agreeing
actions and outcomes, based on the Well-being
Indicators
5. Streamlined planning, assessment and decision
making leading to the right help at the right time
The 10 Core Components (continued)
6. High standards of co-operative working and
communication
7. A Named Person for all children and
A Lead Professional to co-ordinate multi-agency
activity
8. Maximising the skilled workforce within universal
services
9. A confident and competent workforce across all
services
10. Capacity to share demographic, assessment, and
planning information electronically
ASL/GIRFEC
ASL/GIRFEC Interface
Do the Principles of ASL and GIRFEC fit
together?
GIRFEC – Principles
Meet the needs of all children in a proportionate and
timely way.
ASL
Focus’ on children’s learning in the broadest sense.
Sits within the overall GIRFEC approach
Each child
•an individual child might be assessed as
needing help to improve their safety, their
achievement and their inclusion (three of the
wellbeing indicators)
•The interventions or supports for an
individual child will vary and will be dependant
on what it is that is getting in the way of
those areas of well-being. This will be
different for each child.
•Improvement, however, must be able to be
measured
One Childs Plan
Planning
Do we need a Co-ordinated Support Plan (CSP)
and a GIRFEC Plan
• CSP is a statutory plan - statutory
requirement to prepare one.
• Where there is multi agency intervention
GIRFEC principles point to having a single
planning process.
The Childs Plan – one child, one plan
Co- ordinated Support plan
Supporting children’s learning code of practice –
Chapter 5 - Paragraph 101-105.
Getting it right Practice Briefing 6
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ALL CHILDREN---------------------------------CHILDREN IN NEED--------------------------AT RISK OF HARM
Named Person
Lead Professional
Edinburgh - Children’s Services
Delivery Model
Statutory Measures
Complex Needs
Stage 3 Plan
Advice from Early Intervention/Social Work
re: preventive strategies and/ or
appropriateness of
Social Work Services referral
Stage 2 Plan
Shared Assessment
StageStage
1 Plan
1 Plan
Child’s Plan (Multi-Agency,
managed by Lead Professional)
Support for children and families from community
and universal services e.g. Educational
Psychology, Educational Welfare Officer, Child
and Adolescent Mental Health Service and
Voluntary Sector services
Team Around the Cluster
Plan (Single Agency, managed by Named Person)
e.g. Health Plan, Individualised Education Programme
Early Identification/Intervention
Strengthening
Universal Services
e.g. Curriculum for Excellence,
Growing Confidence, Solihull,
Improving Relationships Strategy, Peer Early
Education Programme, Parent/Carer Support,
Community Learning and Development
and Voluntary Sector services
Team Around the Cluster
Dundee – Hierarchy of Need
The role of the central GIRFEC team
Embedding GIRFEC in
relevant National
policies
Supporting National
implementation through
CPP engagement
Embedding GIRFEC
in the new
scrutiny regime
Supporting Practice
Improvement
-including iACT
CPP Engagement
•Now engaging in regional formations
•Grampian
•Tayside
•Fife
•Forth Valley
•South East Scotland
•West of Scotland (but some way to go)
•In an effort to promote GIRFEC implementation across
boundaries
•Strategic engagement event on 14.03.11
Embedding in all relevant policies
• Health
•Justice
•Communities
•Housing
•Early Years
•Education
National guidance
(GIRFEC
implementation,
Child protection
etc)
National
statistics,
indicators
etc
Scrutiny
Less frequent
(e.g. bi-annual)
Self-evaluation,
benchmarking
improvement at
CPP level
Regular (e.g.
quarterly)
Management info
for Chief Officers
Frequent (e.g.
monthly)
Coherent improvement
regime
• Scrutiny is dependent
on self-evaluation
•Self-evaluation is
dependent on
management
information
Supporting Practice Improvement
• Workforce development – Draft delivery plan
for development of Children’s Workforce
• Common skills core – consultation exercise
commences 15.03.11 to run for 5 months
• 7 Practice papers published December 2010
• Also includes iACT!
inter Agency Communication Tool (iACT
• Primarily a National System which provides the means for agencies working with
children to securely and discreetly share information
• Each agency hosts their own instance of iACT
• Children the agency are working with are registered on iACT - eCare will match
each registration providing identification integrity
• If an iACT agency has a concern about a child or require information they can issue
an enquiry. iACT will direct the enquiry to any other agency who has the child
registered, this is screened from the sender
• The receiving agency can assess the request and reply or not, as judged
appropriate
• The sender has no knowledge of who has been sent the request, there is no read
receipt
• iACT can also be used to target a known and identified partner or partners and to
securely exchange information.
iACT – What next?
•
28.02.11 – Functional requirements re-visited by GIRFEC
practitioners from Health, SW, Police and Education
•
02.03.11 – Data Sharing Partnership Managers consulted and
briefed
•
17.03.11 – Cross sector GIRFEC Practitioners invited to form
user group and set terms of reference
•
April and going forward
•
iACT Business Design Advisory Group formed with appropriate
chair
•
Functionality revisited and validated re
Getting it right for every child
Benefits
Highland Pathfinder Benefits
A more holistic assessment of children.
Reduced bureaucracy means staff have more time for direct work
with children and families.
- Fewer meetings and reports for all agencies; 75% saving in time
required for meetings
- 50% reduction in SW caseload, and admin reduced to 10% of
activity.
Reduction in unnecessary referrals to the Reporter – down by 70%.
Reporters and Panels have more time for more serious cases.
Reductions of around 50% in the number of children regarded at
risk of significant harm.
Getting it right for every child
Improved outcomes for a majority of children.
Teachers, Health Visitors, Social Workers etc all having
a better understanding and valuing each others roles,
and how they support each other
Faster and better quality information sharing
Children's needs identified at an earlier stage
More effective interventions
Less cumbersome processes for children and families
Children and families know what is intended and when it
will happen
Getting it right for every child
Other areas
With the aim of improving outcomes for children Falkirk
and Angus councils have re-engineered their processes
in respect of children in residential care
In Falkirk there is a yearly review based on each child’s
stated needs and objectives
In Angus the wellbeing indicators are used in ongoing
three monthly reviews to measure outcomes
Both have seen a spend reduction of between 20 25%!
QUESTIONS?