AHDS Annual Conference November 2014 'Teaching Scotland's Future: What you need to know and do.' GIRFEC Workshop by Lynn Townsend, Scottish Government.

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Children & Young People
(Scotland) Act 2014
Briefing on GIRFEC Provisions
Lynn Townsend
Education /Implementation Lead
Scottish Government GIRFEC Team
www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright

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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 child
Arrangements 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 Set
Preparation of the plan
Responsibility to prepare
Responsibility to manage – Lead Professional
Assistance with the plan – Schedule 3 Listed Authorities
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Guidance Timeline
• 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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Implementation Issues
• 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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Support for Implementation
• 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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How can we help?
• 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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Keep up to date
• Sign up for our e Newsletter
• Follow us on twitter - @girfec
• Check out resources on the website
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www.wellbeingforyoungscots.org/
Contact the team : 0131 - 244 - 7168
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