1. Stirling Plan and Children’s Services Plan
“Our communities in Stirling will become places where everyone can thrive”
Prosperous
Healthy
Achieving
Resilient
“We want Stirling to be a nurturing, respectful and ambitious place for all children and young people, their families and communities.”
Stirling Plan,
Stirling’s Children’s Services Plan

2. 3 Improvement Areas
Improving children and young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing
Improving life outcomes for Looked After Children and young people: partners continuing to be committed to their corporate parenting role
Tackling the impact of low income on children and young people’s participation and achievement

3. 18 months on: Key Achievements
Set up Champions’ Board
Mental health champions and action plans in secondary schools
Improved primary literacy and numeracy following PEF
Fewer children looked after in out of authority placements
Mental health training (SMHFA; school nurses; Start-AV)
Piloted models of school holiday meal provision
Better accommodation for care experienced young people
Implementing whole-school nurture approaches
Food skills work with parents in communities and nurseries
Young people involved in Civtech challenge

4. Key Actions for 2019
Progressing improvement areas
Mental health strategy
Continue to improve care experience
Contribute to Child Poverty Action Report
Strategic needs assessment
Increase use of performance dashboard
Place based delivery
Youth justice strategy

5. Children’s Services Inspection May / June 2019
Full partnership inspection (by Care Inspectorate, Education Scotland, HIS, and HMICS)
Focus on services for children in need of care and protection
Pre-inspection return (case files etc)
Self-evaluation / collation of evidence
Surveys of staff; parents/ carers; children and young people
10 days of visits / focus groups (weeks beginning 6 May and 10 June 2019)

6. Getting involved
Strategic Needs Assessment
Developing next Children’s Services Plan ( )
Links with other CPP work (e.g. place-based developments; tackling poverty)