Allied Health Professions and Education : Partnership Working Project

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Allied Health Professions and Education
Partnership Working Project

• Nicola Robinson (AHP) Donald Ewing (Educ.)
• Development Officers - Schools/Health
  Directorates
• 2008-2010

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Aims of the project are

• improve experiences and outcomes for children,
  young people and their families
• support Sc. Gov. Purpose and National Outcomes of
  the National Performance Framework
• support recommendations from current childrens
  policy agenda for joint working
• ASL Act, GIRFEC, CFE, Health Promotion, Early
  Years Framework, BHBC, Equally Well
• promote and support partnership working between
  education services and AHPs SLT, PT and OT

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We will achieve this by

• Engagement with key agencies and stakeholders (3
  phases)
• 2. Developing National Guidelines
• 3. Including supporting CPD materials

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Key agencies and stakeholders

• Meetings LAs and NHS/AHPs mainstream/special
  schools
• including grant-aided special schools
• Linking with related Health and Education work
  streams e.g GIRFEC, CFE, ASL, Health Wellbeing
  in Schools Project, Early Years Strategy, Health
  Promotion in Schools, Positive Behaviour Team,
  Children in Scotland

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Key agencies and stakeholders

• Parents
• Children and Young People
• AHP Childrens Services Action Group
• Partnership Working Steering Group
• I CAN, AFASIC, NDCS, DSS, CS
• Initial Professional Educators (ITE/HEI)
• NHS QIS, NHS Education Scotland
• HMIe
• LTS
• Prof. bodies RCSLT, COT, CSP
• CAMHS

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Scoping visits - Phase 1

• Identify existing best practice exemplars and
  explore factors leading to success
• Discuss challenges of partnership working and
  barriers/gaps
• Discuss possible supports to enable process, role
  of partnership project
• Complete Phase 1 with EAs and AHPs by April 2009

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Scoping Visits - Phase 2

• Share key learning from Phase 1 via first draft
  of practice Guidelines with selected LA/AHPs
• Engage with parent groups, CYP, voluntary bodies,
  grant aided special schools
• Discuss content and format of practice Guidelines
  and CPD materials
• Complete by Nov 2009

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Scoping Visits - Phase 3

• Share further draft practice Guidelines with
  service users and practitioners
• Amend in light of feedback
• Publish practice Guidelines and CPD materials
  April/May 2010
• Engage in launch events
• Evaluate project, devise self-evaluation template
• Complete - June 2010

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National Guidelines

• Key Features of Partnership Working
• Brief description with explanation
• Evidence (Literature, other sources)
• Exemplification of best practice links,
  tools/templates
• Service user voices
• Policy links
• CPD materials
• Web based and accessible
• Hard Copy

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Features of Good Practice Summary
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Feature of Good Practice 2 Managers from
education and AHP service meet regularly and
frequently to discuss partnership working both at
strategic and operational levels.
These meetings take place irrespective of whether
there is a financial relationship. These
meetings are prioritised and where staff cannot
attend the meeting they proceed with
representatives from the relevant service. This
sometimes means that key decisions or discussion
have to be deferred. A record of these meetings
is taken and shared widely with teams. A
frequency of about 4 times a year, or once a
school term seems appropriate
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Getting It Right For Every Child -------------
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A Curriculum for Excellence
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McCartney 2002 Barrier to Collaboration
Law et al. (2008) CIRCLE Project
(2009)
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Dumfries and Galloway Council Talking Talk
Project Falkirk Council / NHS For the
Valley Service Level Agreements Capability
Scotland Needs Analysis Tool
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Children and Young People Video Clip of David who
is a young person. Parents The ASL Forum in
North Lanarkshire share their views about what
can go wrong if professionals are not talking to
each other. Professionals SLT Manager Jane and
ASL Manager Joe discuss the journey they have
taken in developing their links including a
strategic meeting held every term.
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Exemplar Service Level Agreement You can use this
to help you to write your own SLA. Who attends
the meeting A suggestion of attendees at
strategic meetings when SLAs are
discussed. Mock agenda An amalgam of a variety
of agenda items to act as a suggestion of items
for discussion at such a meeting.
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What we have learned so far.

• High level of interest as relevant to
  practitioners
• Interest in how policy can be put into practice
• Wish to link different policy agendas
• Want to know what others are doing
• Wish to share own practice solutions
• Key emerging features of partnership working

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Features of Good Practice

• Agreements between Educ. and AHPs, structures for
  working together - including financial
  arrangements
• Defined roles and responsibilities
• Understanding range of AHP support e.g universal
  - targeted -
• specialist
• 4. AHP involved in planning all levels, and
  training /CPD
• 5. Evaluation by service users

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?

• How can we fit the partnership working project
  and the learning from it regarding good practice
  into inspection/quality improvement/assurance
  processes?
• How can we apply the emerging features of best
  practice to all joint working collaborative
  contracts within childrens services?