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!  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 Leadership Scotland – the best place in the world to grow up Start of primary school to age 8 / P3

Stretch Aims 1.To reduce by 15%, the rates of stillbirth & infant mortality by the end of % 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‐ % of all children reached all of the expected developmental milestones at the time the child starts primary school, by end‐ % 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 will happen if we try something different?” “Let’s try it!”“Did it work?” “What’s next? ”

Cycles of Tests Build Confidence Proposals, theories, hunches, intuition Changes that will result in improvement Learning from data

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. Family garden party A very hot weekend

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!

1)Early support for pregnancy and 2)Attachment and Child Development beyond maternity services 3) Continuity of care in transitions between services 4) month Child Health review 5) Developing parents’ skills 6) Family Engagement to Support Early Learning 7) Addressing Child Poverty 8) Leadership/Workstream 4 Key Changes

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…..

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