In order to become successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens: all children and young people need to be safe, nurtured, active, healthy, achieving, included, respected and responsible.
Getting it right for every child is a national approach to helping children and young people in Scotland. The approach sets out guidelines, and possible new legislation, that will help families and professionals to work better together with children and young people, and to give children and families more say in the help that they get.
Related Programmes
The 2003 " For Scotland's Children" report highlighted the problems caused by a lack of joint working across children's services. The Executive aims to improve integration of children's services.
- This work linked closely to policy developments in education. A Curriculum for Excellence published in November 2004, clearly set out that children and young people should be successful learners; confident individuals; effective contributors to society and responsible citizens.
- Integration underpins programmes such as Changing Lives which is the five year programme to build capacity and continuous improvement in social work services.
- In addition, many local integrated children's services plans have been constructed around the key themes of the vision and it has become embedded in local policies and strategies.