1. Community Planning Partners Corporate Parenting
North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership
Mark Inglis
Senior Manager – Intervention Services
Working together in partnership

2. Corporate Parenting What is it?
“Corporate Parenting means the formal and local partnerships needed between all local authority departments and services, and associated agencies, who are responsible for working together to meet the needs of Looked after children and young people and care leavers”
(The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 Part 9)
North Ayrshire
Health & Social Care Partnership

3. Who is a Corporate Parent Schedule 4 of the C&YP Act 2014 states;
Care Inspectorate
Scottish Housing Regulator
SSSC
Education
Training and funding bodies
SQA
Sports Scotland
Creative Scotland
Scottish Ministers
Local Authorities
Health Boards
Police Scotland
Scottish Fire and Rescue
Children’s Hearing Scotland
SCRA
Training and funding bodies

4. What should it look like
“Good Parents aim to do much more than the basics for their young people, and Scotland’s care leavers should expect their corporate parents to do the same”
Scottish Care Leavers Covenant 2016

5. Challenges for Care Leavers
Many of our Looked After and Looked After and Accommodated Children experience some of the poorest outcomes of any group in Scotland.
Low levels of educational engagement and achievement
High levels of poverty
Homelessness
Poor mental health
Rates of suicide and self-harm are higher than that of the general population.
In 2013 a third of young offenders had been in care at some point in their childhood.
The needs of looked after children and care leavers are often complex, reflecting backgrounds of trauma, loss and instability.
Some have physical and/or mental / learning disabilities.
Therefore safeguarding and promoting their welfare and wellbeing can be challenging.

6. Adverse Childhood Experiences
Five Direct
Sexual abuse by parent / caregiver
Emotional abuse by parent / caregiver
Physical abuse by parent / caregiver
Emotional neglect by parent / caregiver
Physical neglect by parent / caregiver
Five Indirect
Parent / Caregiver addicted to alcohol / other drugs
Witnessed abuse in the household
Family member in prison
Family member with a mental illness
Parent / Caregiver absent through abandoning family / divorce
The ACE survey
Toxic Stress

7. Looked after Stats

8. Young people Receiving Aftercare

9. Present EET status Column1 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16
IN EET
NOT IN EET
% in EET 46% 49% 55% 42%
Economic Activity
In higher education
In education other than HE
In training or employment
NEET –
due to looking after family
due to short term illness
due to L/T illness or disability
due to other circumstances
Across Scotland, the percentage of young people leaving school to go into education, training or work (known as a “positive destination”) was 93% for all school leavers in This compared to 77% for looked after pupils. While both groups of young people have shown improvement, the gap between mainstream school leavers and looked after school leavers remains almost the same.
The difference in positive destinations shown when a follow up survey was done in October and March shows the gap to be even larger. In , 92% of mainstream school leavers were still in a positive destination, with the number of looked after school leavers dropping to 69%.
In North Ayrshire, in 2014/15 there were 80% of looked after young people in a positive destination when initially surveyed and 60% in the follow up survey in October and March.
Planning and Performance Team: Educational Outcomes for Looked After Children 2014/15: Performance and Benchmarking Report

10. Present Situation
A commitment to a staged vocational / educational programme between the HSCP and Economy and Communities designed to target the most displaced or hard to reach young people, preparing them to start the journey into the employment pipeline
Guaranteeing an interview for any LAAC child or Care leavers who almost meet the criteria for a Modern Apprenticeship. Supports from Throughcare, Aftercare, Rosemount, PAT to enable young people to progress into a positive destination
HSCP/ NHS engaging in discussions around volunteering and Modern Apprenticeship opportunities
External companies approaching Throughcare/ Aftercare to offer Modern Apprenticeships
Presently compiling a new Corporate Parenting Strategy with CPP members. Making ambitious promises for young people incorporate the Scottish Care Leavers Covenant (2015).
Access to targeted Mental Health service for Young people with Care experience through the employment of a CAMHS nurse based at the Throughcare/ Aftercare team.
Economies and Communities Funded employability advisor within Throughcare/ Aftercare, continues to be prove invaluable
Care leavers, positive destination event at Ayrshire College
Money matters advice regarding the implication of young people securing employment upon their benefits.

11. Ambitious for our Care Leavers
Now have agreement form North Ayrshire, of five ring fenced MA’s for Looked After young people, with consideration of removing essential criteria with equivalency
I’m asking that as Community Planning Partners you sign up to the Social Impact Pledge of offering work experience and Modern Apprenticeships for Care leavers – A family firm (10)
That as Corporate Parents, you give consideration to mentoring a young person to progress into a positive destination
That as Corporate Parents we sign up to the Scottish Care Leavers Covenant