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Children & Young People (Scotland) Act 2014
Briefing on GIRFEC ProvisionsLynn Townsend
Education /Implementation LeadScottish Government GIRFEC Team
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Outline of Presentation
• GIRFEC policy
• Duties in the C&YP Act
• Development of guidance
• Support for implementation – progress and issues
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Five Key Implementation Priorities
• Identifying a Named Person for every child and young person in the universal services.
• Identifying protocols and governance for Lead Professional.• Supporting partnerships to take a proportionate approach to
managing all concerns and risks.• Redesign business processes to secure a single planning process
for all children and young people supporting a single plan.• Ensuring the use of the National Practice Model to assess needs
and risks.Children and families at the centre
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Children & Young People (Scotland) Act - GIRFEC
• GIRFEC policy unchanged – on-going refining and updating• Legislation – only aspects of the policy
– Named Person– Child’s Plan– Wellbeing
• Why legislate?– Increase pace of change– Improve consistency across Scotland
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Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014
• Introduced April 2013• Passed February 2014• Royal Assent March 2014
• Commencement:– Early education and child care hours - summer 2014– GIRFEC duties – planning for August 2016
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GIRFEC Duties in the Act: Part 18. General Section 96. assessment of wellbeing• Wellbeing defined – 8 indicators
– Safe– Healthy– Achieving– Nurtured– Active– Respected– Responsible– Included
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GIRFEC Duties in the Act:Part 4. Named Person
• Named Person for every childArrangements 0-5 / 5-18 Information on arrangements Support for the Named Person – Schedule 2 Relevant Authorities Information Sharing
Key duties on local authority / health boards/ independent schools / Scottish Prison Service
Other public bodies will have duty to cooperate and support
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GIRFEC Duties in the Act:Part 5. Child’s Plan
Requirement to draw up a plan – ‘targeted intervention’Content of the plan – Minimum Data SetPreparation of the planResponsibility to prepareResponsibility to manage – Lead ProfessionalAssistance with the plan – Schedule 3 Listed Authorities
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• March 2014 - Outline Guidance issued• July – Nov – engagement and informal consultation• Dec - Jan – review and preparation for formal consultation
• Jan – April 2015 – formal consultation• Summer 2015 – publication of statutory guidance
• Commencement August 2016
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getting it
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• Inconsistent and variable implementation– Within CPPs – health/LA /others moving at different pace
• Systems change – not a smooth process – managing the old alongside the new – multi agency agreement
• Embedding culture and practice change – long term - leadership, persistence, good quality training and support
• Level of awareness and involvement – strategic/operational – parents and children
• Sharing the learning – improving but patchy
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• National Implementation Support Group (NISG) overview of progress learning events materials• National GIRFEC Team development of statutory guidance / other guidance links to CPPs / national / professional groups ‘bespoke’ materials
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• What are the key barriers and what would help? nationally locally
• What are the key questions to be answered? the Act the guidance implementation
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• Sign up for our e Newsletter• Follow us on twitter - @girfec• Check out resources on the website
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Contact the team : 0131 - 244 - 7168
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