Improving and Getting It Right for Every Child Learning Session 6 October 2014

Getting it right for every child: A framework for improvement GIRFEC is the Scottish Government approach to improving the wellbeing of all children and young people. It does so by finding better ways: to keep the child/young person at the centre of policy and service delivery; for professionals to work together with each other and with children, young people and their families; and to embed early and primary intervention.

GIRFEC and the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 Named Person -the role of the Named Person -who’s responsible for the service Information sharing -sharing information with/by the Named Person Child’s Plan

Implementing the GIRFEC duties Commencement: 1 August 2016 Publication of final statutory guidance: mid-2015 Consultation on draft statutory guidance: 1 st quarter of 2015 Publication of support materials for GIRFEC change management: end 2014

GIRFEC and the Collaborative ambition and aims Named Persons: improved support for developmental milestones through partnership working around the Named Person, including pre- birth Information sharing: better early identification of those children experiencing difficulties with developmental milestones Child’s Plans: more consistently coordinated multi- service intervention for children needing help with developmental milestones

Improvement and GIRFEC Key motivation for legislating on GIRFEC: consistency across Scotland. Hence, the challenge of balancing national prescription with local flexibility. Two types of improvement may offer this balance: -improving how to meet the requirements under the Act and the statutory guidance -improving what is not required but which makes best use of the Act/guidance

Improvement and the Named Person Examples of aspects where the improvement methodology could support the Named Person: Raising awareness of the Named Person among families Understanding what should be treated as a concern Responding to a concern

Improvement and information sharing Examples of aspects where the improvement methodology could support information sharing: Working with children, young people and their families Sharing information appropriately within services Sharing information appropriately between services

Improvement and the Child’s Plan Examples of aspects where the improvement methodology could support the Child’s Plan: Determining a common format for the Child’s Plan Initiating the Child’s Plan Managing the Child’s Plan

‘IRFEC’ What aspects of implementing GIRFEC can benefit from the improvement methodology? What kind of small tests of change can be devised and how could success be scaled up? How much can your area benefit from using the improvement methodology in this way?