1. Andrew Kendrick, Claire Cassidy & John Paul Fitzpatrick
Strathclyde’s Children: Working together to improve the lives of children and young people
Interprofessional Working and the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act
Andrew Kendrick, Claire Cassidy & John Paul Fitzpatrick

2. Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014
Children’s rights
Corporate parenting
Children’s services planning
Child’s plans
Provision of named person
Early learning and childcare
After care and continuing care

3. Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014
Scottish Government’s aim: ‘to create a programme of change in the culture and practice of all services that affect the lives of children, young people and their families’.

4. Interprofessional working
Kilbrandon – Social Education Department
Youth strategies in the 1980/90s
Children (Scotland) Act 1995
Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC)

5. Barriers to partnership
Structures and systems
Communication and information
Professional and organisational priorities
Whether partnership perceived as mutually beneficial
Defending agency budgets

6. Children – the missing link?
Inter-professional working and the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014
Children – the missing link?

7. Rights
“…steps which they could take which would or might better secure better or further effect in Scotland of the UNCRC requirements”
Report every three years on progress and plans
“...must take such account as they consider appropriate of any relevant views of children of which the Scottish Ministers are aware”

8. Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training
Adopted by UN General Assembly, December Everyone has the right to know, seek and receive information about all human rights and fundamental freedoms and should have access to human rights education and training. 2. Human rights education and training is essential for the promotion of universal respect for and observance of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, in accordance with the principles of the universality, indivisibility and interdependence of human rights. 3. The effective enjoyment of all human rights, in particular the right to education and access to information, enables access to human rights education and training.

9. Some questions/issues to think about…

10. Definitions are tricky
Are they human?
Pick a number
And/or

11. Voice UNCRC Articles 12 and 13 Age and maturity
Consultation and collaboration
Planning
Complaints
Reporting
‘so far as reasonably practicable to ascertain and have regard to the views of the child…’

12. Participation Partnership – where is the child? Meaningful; authentic
Power
Voice
Space
Audience
Influence (Lundy, 2007)
Partnership – where is the child?

13. Corporate Parenting

14. Corporate Parents Scottish Social Services Council Scottish Ministers
Local authorities
Children’s Hearings Scotland
National Convener of CHS
The Principal Reporter
Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration
Health Boards
Healthcare Improvement Scotland
Scottish Qualifications Authority
Skills Development Scotland
Care Inspectorate
Scottish Social Services Council
Scottish Sports Council
Chief constable of the Police Service of Scotland
Scottish Police Authority
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
Scottish Legal Aid Board
Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland
Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
Scottish Housing Regulator
Bòrd na Gàidhlig
Creative Scotland
Colleges and University

15. Corporate Parenting Responsibilities
Duty of every corporate parent:
to be alert to matters which, or which might, adversely affect the wellbeing of children and young people,
to assess the needs of those children and young people for services and support it provides,
to promote the interests of those children and young people,
to seek to provide those children and young people with opportunities to participate in activities designed to promote their wellbeing,
to take such action as it considers appropriate to help those children and young people to access opportunities it provides and to make use of services, and access support, which it provides.

16. Provision of Named Persons
‘Pre-school child’ – health board makes arrangements for the named person
All other children – local authority makes arrangements for the named person
What a Named Person does:
Advising, informing or supporting the child or young person, or a parent
Helping the child or young person, or a parent to access a service or support
Raising matters about the child or young person with a service provider or relevant authority
Duty to help a named person
Duty to share information
Information shared ‘in breach of a duty of confidentiality’ is not to be provided to any other person

17. Child’s Plans
If the child has a wellbeing need – that is if the child’s wellbeing is being, or is at risk of being, adversely affected by any matter
AND
can be met by a ‘targeted intervention’
The child’s plan is to contain a statement of:
The child’s wellbeing need
The targeted intervention
Who is to provide it
How it is to be provided
The outcome that it is intended to achieve
Duty to deliver and review the plan

18. Children’s Services Planning
Both universal services and targeted services
Children’s services plan prepared with a view that services are provided in a way that:
best safeguards, supports and promotes the wellbeing of children in the area concerned,
ensures that any action to meet needs is taken at the earliest appropriate time and that, where appropriate, action is taken to prevent needs arising,
is most integrated from the point of view of recipients, and
constitutes the best use of available resources
So far as reasonably practicable, provide children’s services in the area of the local authority in accordance with the plan

19. Early Learning and Childcare
Making more hours of free early learning and childcare available for 3 and 4 year olds
Making more hours of free early learning and childcare available for 2 year olds who are looked after or subject to a kinship care order, or who have been since turning 2
Taking steps to make early learning and childcare more flexible.

20. Aftercare and Continuing Care
Aftercare – ‘advice, guidance and assistance’
any young person who ceases to be looked after by a local authority on or after their 16th birthday will be eligible to aftercare services.
extends eligibility to aftercare services to care leavers aged 21 to 25.
‘Continuing Care’ - local authorities will be under a duty to assess and (if it is deemed appropriate) make provision for a care leaver to remain in their ‘looked after’ placement (or suitable alternative accommodation) and in receipt of ‘other assistance’ until the age of 21.

21. Implications for Interprofessional Working
Building on the work that has gone before
GIRFEC
Early Years Collaborative
Whole systems approach
Addresses all levels
National government
Local government and service providers
Individual professional
Principles, policy and practice
The child and family at the centre