1. East Lothian 3rd Sector: How GIRFEC –Ready are we?
Raymy Boyle
Project Manager
National Third Sector GIRFEC Project
Mike Rodger
Service & Practice Development Officer
Performance & Service Improvement Team
Children and Adult Services
Hannah Axon
Policy & Networks Coordinator
STRIVE
East Lothian 3rd Sector: How GIRFEC –Ready are we?

2. Survey Background
Survey Monkey questionnaire Issued in mid-November to over 250 3rd sector organisations in East Lothian.
19 Responses (7.6%)
35 questions covering a range of topics including:
Low response, however, if we had more, do we think they would have been vastly different?

3. Survey Areas Organisation Information C&YP (Scotland) Act
National Resources
Assessment
Named Person
Lead Professional
Children’s Services Planning

4. Key findings
20 % said they did not feel their organisation was ready to implement the C&YP Act
More than 30% said they did not understand EL’s Child Wellbeing Pathway
40% not using Wellbeing Indicators to describe and record outcomes
20% = 3 people
Re wellbeing – could be the way the question was worded.
Generally positive responses to most questions – we are highlighting the areas that a few people did not feel as positive about and want to check that out with your own perspective.

5. Key findings
20% did not understand the role and responsibilities of the Named Person and 60% said they were not aware of how to contact the NP in school holidays
27% disagreed re knowing what they could share with NP & what the process for sharing was
27% have not contributed towards a child’s plan
27% = 4 people

6. Key findings: EL C&YP Plan
27% don’t understand how they could contribute to the EL C&YP Plan.
20% had said their organisation had made no use of the plan with 73% stating they’d used it to some extent.

7. The National GIRFEC Picture
Commencement of Named Person and Child’s Plan provisions have been delayed following the Supreme Court Judgment on Parts 4 & 5 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014.
A full explanation of the judgement is here;
In response to the judgement Scottish Government have stated they will commence a three month period of intense engagement led by the Deputy First Minister and the Minister for Childcare and Early Years, Mark McDonald. 
Once that work is completed, the Deputy First Minister will return to Parliament to announce the next steps in terms of legislative process. 
The ambition of the Deputy First Minister is to work towards a commencement date of August A link to his full statement is here;
Implementation of Parts 4 & 5:

8. EL Children & Young People Services Plan 2016-2019
Priorities:
Early Years - East Lothian’s children have the best start in life and are ready to succeed
East Lothian’s Young Workforce – “Positive Destinations”- All of East Lothian’s young people are successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens and are supported into further education, training or employment
As we go through these priorities – think about what overlaps with your own service priorities and the areas you work in with children and young people

9. EL Children & Young People Services Plan 2016-2019
Corporate Parenting – The outcomes of looked after children and young people match the outcomes of other children
Children are safe – We will work together to keep children and young people safe embedding the Signs of Safety approach in the assessment of risks and needs for vulnerable children and young people

10. EL Children & Young People Services Plan 2016-2019
Children and young people’s mental health
Additional Support Needs and Disability – Children with a disability make appropriate progress taking into account their age, aptitude and abilities

11. EL Children & Young People Services Plan 2016-2019
Cross-Cutting Themes:
Participation and service-user involvement
Transition
Training and development
Prevention and Early Intervention

12. The Planning Structure

13. Strive Update

14. Strategic links Exercise
On a scale of 1-5 rate awareness of/involvement in the following (1 = low, 5=high):
Knowledge of the overall structure
What the CSP does?
What does each of the PAD groups do
The priorities outlined in the Children and Young People’s Services Plan
How can you be more involved?
In groups/ 20 mins

15. Operational Links Exercise:
How does the work you do relate to the NP function?
What are your existing relationships with Health Visitors/Schools?
What needs to be in place to build on this to make best use of your services?
What barriers exist?
In groups /30 mins

16. Establishing a Children and Young People’s Forum in East Lothian
Remit
Roles
Frequency
What needs to be in place to support this group?
What commitment could you/your organisation make towards this?
Group discussion/ 45 minutes including feedback

17. Any outstanding GIRFEC Issue which need to be revisited ?