Early Years Collaborative Liz Strang Programme Manager

Context National Outcome 2007: Our children have the best start in life and are ready to succeed Early Years Framework key elements Early Years Taskforce 2011 In partnership with local government, the NHS, the police and the Third Sector

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

Early Years Collaborative -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

Workstream 1 To ensure that women experience positive pregnancies which result in the birth of more healthy babies as evidenced by a reduction of 15% in the rates of: - stillbirths (from 4.9 per 1000 births in 2010 to 4.3 per 1000 births in 2015) - infant mortality (from 3.7 per 1000 live births in 2010 to 3.1 per 1000 live births in 2015)

Workstream 2 85% of all children within each CPP have reached all of the expected developmental milestones at the time of the child’s month child health review by end-2016

Workstream 3 90% of all children within each CPP have reached all of the expected developmental milestones at the time the child starts primary school, by end- 2017

Workstream 4 - Leadership Provide the Leadership System to support quality improvement across the Early Years Collaborative Timely delivery of all three workstream “stretch aims”

How?

Stretch Aims

Early Years Collaborative 2 day LS Supports Expert QI & Early Years Faculty Networking events Local Learning WEBEX Site Visits Phone conferences PDT Monthly Reports Extranet 2 day LS A P D S A D P S LS1 2 day Kickoff D S P A 2 day LS Key Changes Improvement Measures October 2013 June 2014 January 2014 Pre-work Etc… October 2014

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