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Getting it right for every child Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) (GIRFEC) Rod Burns Getting it right for every child/ Children’s disability team NMCN for Children with Exceptional Healthcare Needs: GIRFEC and Children’s Disability September 29, 2010

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Getting it right for every child Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC)(GIRFEC)

Rod Burns

Getting it right for every child/Children’s disability team

NMCN for Childrenwith Exceptional Healthcare Needs:

GIRFEC and Children’s Disability

September 29, 2010

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Why Why Getting it right for every childGetting it right for every child??

• Long-term programme of change, foundation for work with all children and young people

• Well-being of children and young people at the heart of thinking, planning, action

• Strong emphasis on flexibility• Transformative - shifting the way services function

in regard to children• Involves major culture, system, practice change

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Equally Well

Young Carers

Early Years Framework

Achieving Our Potential

Domestic Abuse

ChildProtection

Children’sHearings

Youth Justice

Parents and carers

Parental substance abuse

Looked After Children

Public Services Reform

Disabled children

WorkforceSkills

Young runaways

Additional Support for

LearningMore Choices More Chances

Curriculum for Excellence

Why is the GIRFEC approach necessary?

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GIRFEC and Children’s DisabilityGIRFEC and Children’s Disability

• Traditionally, policy affecting disabled children fragmented

• Disconnect between education, social work, health, housing, third sector and so on

• Added to challenging landscape• Occasionally impenetrable, even within SG!• Opportunity in late 2009 to fuse children’s

disability remit into GIRFEC team, approach to children’s services

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GIRFEC and Children’s Disability, contdGIRFEC and Children’s Disability, contd

• But much more than structural change• Fundamental compatibility between the GIRFEC

approach and needs of disabled children• Strongly child-centred• Children’s individual needs determining flexible

approaches• Streamlining, minimising bureaucracy

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GIRFEC and Children’s Disability, contdGIRFEC and Children’s Disability, contd

• Improved assessment, info-sharing – reducing need to constantly retell information

• Focused on outcomes – positive change and better lives

• Leadership at all levels essential – strategic, operational, practitioner, family

• Not a new system, initiative or structure but redesign, refocusing of existing processes

• Culture change perhaps most important, challenging

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Wider Work – FSDCWider Work – FSDC

• Work with FSDC Liaison Project – key to assisting better lives

• Significant achievements so far • Charter for Scotland’s Disabled Children• Diary Project, Baseline Survey• Large membership, supporter base• New challenges as first project manager moves

on, but also new opportunities within rapidly developing context

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Wider Work – National ReviewWider Work – National Review

• PSR bill process, large interest in children’s disability amendments

• Negotiation, consensus• Opportunity to work in partnership – SG, CoSLA,

FSDC – during influential time (late 2010, into 2011)

• Commitment to broad look at children’s disability services, better outcomes for children

• Working through 2010 to end of year report on progress

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Wider Work – Moving and HandlingWider Work – Moving and Handling

• In addition to strategic work, leading practical change

• Ministers accepted all but two recommendations, Handle with Care

• Currently running four drafting groups• Programme of meetings, work through winter• Drafting process into 2011, with launch and

communications activity to follow

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Wider Work – Organisational SupportWider Work – Organisational Support

• Perhaps ‘old-fashioned’, but still hugely important• Directly sponsoring a range of groups providing

direct support to families• Advice, advocacy, maximising resources• Very well known, large – Contact a Family, Family

Fund, Capability• Also smaller – Butterfly Trust, Sleep Scotland

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Care Co-Ordination/Lead ProfessionalCare Co-Ordination/Lead Professional

• Not dwell on this issue (detailed Highland, D&G and Borders experiences to come)

• Important to stress that key working/care coordination already established (with relevant skillsets) prior to GIRFEC; by doing one you’re doing the other

• GIRFEC not about replacing, or displacing, existing good practice which works

• Key balance – holistic approach to supporting child and family, drawing on specialist expertise around children’s complex needs

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Going ForwardGoing Forward

• Excellent position for children’s disability• At heart of long-term vision for flexible child-

centred services in Scotland• Not complacent – transformation GIRFEC seeks

must also happen in support for all children across all agencies

• As GIRFEC rolls out, momentum for change will boost children’s disability agenda, including focus on children with complex needs

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Contact DetailsContact Details

Rod Burns

Getting it right for every child/Children’s disability team2-B North, Victoria QuayEdinburgh, EH6 6QQ

(0131) 244 0253

[email protected]

www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright