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Background
Currently, there are only specific legal duties to plan on a small number of agencies who might work with children, and only for specific purposes. The draft Children's Services (Scotland) Bill proposes widening the number of agencies who have duties with regard to the well-being of children. It also includes new duties to plan, discussed below. As part of best practice there is an expectation that agencies will work and plan together to implement Getting it right for every child.
The child's or young person's plan
The plan has been designed to help all staff working with children and families in any organisation in the community think about the needs of a child or young person.
The plan is for use with any child or young person whenever there is a concern that they might not be as safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible and included as they should be.
When planning and thinking about a child's or young person's needs, every practitioner should think about the whole child or young person. The assessment triangle below focuses on the child and young person and what is needed for their development and wellbeing. Adults who are parents or carers may have needs or problems that could affect children, and these problems should be tackled, too.
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