Getting it Right for Every Child

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Getting it Right for Every Child
Highland Joint Committee on Children Young
People
Scottish Executive
Pathfinder Project
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Principles

• Throughout the project, we will
• aim to improve outcomes for all of Highlands
  children
• be child focused
• understand children in the context of their
  family and community
• promote inclusion and equality of opportunity,
  and respect diversity.

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Principles (contd.)

• We will aim to develop processes that are based
  on getting the right service to each child at the
  right time, and
• are grounded in multi-agency working and provide
  clarity about agency professional roles and
  responsibilities
• promote working in partnership with children
  families
• promote the early identification of need and the
  early prevention of difficulties
• achieve minimal necessary interventions to
  achieve effective and better outcomes, through a
  proportionate response
• involve straightforward and coherent pathways
  but that are able to deal with complex issues
• are evidence based.

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Evaluating Success

• For Children, families and communities
• Children get the help they need it when they need
  it. Help is proportionate, timely and
  appropriate.
• Action improves each childs situation and
  reduces risk.
• The approach supports the achievement of good
  outcomes, demonstrated through Childrens Plan
  targets, for all children.
• Children and families experience a co-ordinated
  and unified approach to having their needs met.

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• For children, families and communities
  (contd.)
• Children and families say they know about the
  services and support available to them, have
  confidence in using them believe their needs are
  being address and their views heard.
• Communities are engaged in activities that
  support children.
• Communities are more confident about the
  responsibilities of services and how community
  concerns are being dealt with.

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Evaluating Success

• For staff
• Staff (at all levels) have more time to spend on
  activities that will improve outcomes for
  children, and less in duplication and overlap
  (including fewer reports, bureaucracy meetings
  and discrete records).
• Staff know what to do if they have a concern
  about a child, the response pathways are clear,
  and they can be confident of the response of
  others in the childs network.
• Staff are supported by their agency and other
  professionals and have the skills, knowledge and
  tools to improve childrens lives.

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Evaluating Success

• For the agency
• There are effective polices, processes,
  structures and tools for the delivery of good
  outcomes. These are integrated into practice all
  levels and are sustainable beyond the efforts of
  individuals.
• Agencies individually and collectively know how
  well they are doing, can account for their
  agencies performance and there are mechanisms in
  place to resolve difficulties, improve
  performance.

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What will be different in a GIRFEC world

• Common pathway - single assessment, planning
  and review process- changed systems and
  structures
• Central child record
• Integrated Assessment Framework
• Lead professional
• Less/no referrals managed system
• Emphasis on action not service
• Explicit threshold for compulsory measures

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Objectives of the Pathfinding Project

• By Sept 2006 to consider, test and confirm the
  arrangements necessary to implement Getting it
  Right for Every Child
• To plan and effect the implementation of GIRFEC
  in Inverness between Sept 06 and March 07 and to
  plan and effect the roll-out in further areas
  from April 07.
• To develop practice tools, that include the
  assessment framework the childs action plan and
  review format within a childs record and
  service processes and pathways.

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Objectives of the Pathfinding Project

• To consider how far this implementation might be
  achieved as an electronic process, and to
  undertake that, if it is viable within the
  timescale.
• To develop training materials that can be used by
  other authorities.
• To describe how the process of implementation of
  GIRFEC can be achieved in other Scottish
  authorities, and to present this in appropriate
  formats as part of the dissemination.

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Managing change for three groups of children

• Children born after day one
• Children in the universal system only level 1
• Children in additional need and integrated
  services levels 3 and 2 (in the system)

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Implementing Hall 4Assessing Need
Universal Core Programme All families offered
core screening and surveillance programme,
immunisation, information, advice on service
Needs Assessment
Universal Core Programme no additional input
needed Contact or appointments on request
Additional support from health visitor as agreed
with family Structured support (e.g. fist time
mother, breastfeeding problems, mental health
problems)
Inter-agency support Structured inter-agency
support for individual families or communities
(e.g. child on child protection register, looked
after or disabled child, parental stresses)
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Implementing Additional Support for Education
Universal Core Curriculum All children offered
core curriculum and assessment programme, and
guidance.
Needs Assessment
Universal Core Curriculum
Inter-agency support
Additional support
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