The core components of the Getting it right for every child approach
The 10 core components, many of which are currently being tested and evaluated are:
- A focus on improving outcomes for children, young people and their families based on a shared understanding of well-being.
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- An integral role for children, young people and families and those with a relevant interest in reaching the decisions that affect children's lives as part of assessment, planning and intervention.
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- Maximising the skilled workforce within universal services to address concerns at the earliest point themselves, where they can, bringing others around them as needed.
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- A common approach to gaining consent and to sharing information where appropriate.
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- A coordinated and unified approach to identifying concerns, assessing needs, agreeing actions and outcomes based on indicators of well-being.
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- Streamlined planning, assessment and decision making processes that lead to the right help at the right time for the child.
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- Consistent high standards of co-operation, joint working and communication, where more than one agency needs to be involved.
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- A confident and competent workforce in the statutory universal and targeted services as well as the independent sector.
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- A lead professional to co-ordinate and monitor multi-agency activity where necessary.
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- The capacity to share demographic, assessment, planning and outcome information electronically within and across agency boundaries through the national eCare programme where appropriate.
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The Getting it right for every child programme is promoting the concept of many journeys leading to one shared destination - to ensure all children and young people achieve their full potential. The necessary alignment across Scotland to deliver a programme of this breadth and magnitude requires a long term commitment which is why we need change on three fronts; culture change, systems change and practice change.
The primary role of the Scottish Government is to support, facilitate and promote change at local level while leading on those areas that require a national solution.
Guidance, training and toolkits will be necessary to support full implementation across all children's services in time. Along this journey there will be scope for testing through pathfinder activity and with learning partners and opportunities to evaluate the process and ensure recurring issues and themes are extracted to share learning and knowledge across Scotland.
The development of an on-line learning community will enable lessons to be shared across professions and for individuals to come together in a spirit of learning.
The aspiration is to ensure that all those working with children, young people and families develop the Getting it right for every child approach in their own organisations, regions and sectors to reflect local circumstances and needs in partnership with others and most importantly, adaptable to the needs of each and every family, child and young person.