Bill Alexander

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• Bill Alexander
• Highland Pathfinder
• www.forhighlandschildren.org

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principles and values

• Child at the centre
• Holistic approach and early intervention
• Confidentiality and information sharing
• Safety
• Promoting opportunities, valuing diversity
• Partnership with families
• Building on strengths
• Bringing help to the child
• Bringing help together
• Supporting informed choice
• Teamwork between professionals and agencies
• Professional boundaries and standards
• Individual development
• Values across all working relationships

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the core components

• Pathway through services
• Common language
• Engage and empower children and families
• Named person and lead professional roles
• Assessment framework, that builds from birth
• Assessment determines plan and service delivery
• Single Childs Plan
• Fewer meetings, with single Childs Plan meeting
• E-solutions

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Childs Plan considered at Liaison Meeting
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stages and milestones

• New business processes as part of explicit
  model, with guidance (Inverness and rolling out)
• Training programmes(Inverness and rolling out)
• New joint structures (Highland)
• New information sharing process (Inverness and
  Police and rolling out)
• Assessment framework Childs Plan(SW and
  Inverness and rolling out)
• Single Childs Plan meeting (Highland)
• Named person and lead professional (Highland)

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Lessons learned in implementation

• The whole childrens services team must pull
  its weight, to manage change
• Chief Officer and political leadership is crucial
  
• Capacity and systems to manage risk
• All services must be on board its
  cross-cutting, but its also single agency change
  
• You need good coaches
• Practitioners have to recognise, understand and
  have ownership
• Change has to be managed but when opportunities
  arise, you go with the flow.

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Changed processes
improved actions

• Sharing concerns earlier intervention
• SHANARI holistic interventions
• Less bureaucracy better support
• Common language focussed action

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challenges

• Implementation at a time of reducing resources
• Service criteria
• Equity of early intervention services
• Shared understanding and tools for adult
  services
• Pace of change too slow or too fast?
• E-solutions

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• Bill Alexander
• Highland Pathfinder
• www.forhighlandschildren.org