Getting it Right For Every Child : Getting it Right For Every Child Staged Assessment & Intervention Training 2010
Outcomes : Outcomes Consistent and proportionate assessment processes and documentation across all services and stages of the SAI model, resulting in one plan for the child.
Clarity over the remit of the Named Person and Lead Professional and the key role these play in meeting children’s needs
Outcomes : Outcomes Improved understanding of how effective service user involvement contributes to robust planning, assessment and intervention.
Better integrated working and, ultimately, meeting the needs of vulnerable children and their families
Slide 4: What is GIRFEC?
The Getting it right for every child approach is about how practitioners across all services for children and adults meet the needs of children and young people, working together where necessary to ensure they reach their full potential. It promotes a shared approach and accountability that:
builds solutions with and around children, young people and families
enables children and young people to get the help they need when they need it
supports a positive shift in culture, systems and practice
involves working together to make things better
Culture, Systems, Practice : Culture, Systems, Practice Culture: learning together, co-operating, children at the centre
Systems: streamlining, simplifying, improving effectiveness
Practice: appropriate, proportionate and timely help; shared models, tools and protocols
Slide 7: SAI Audit findings:
SA&I records were not fully completed
Appropriate information was not always recorded.
SA&I recording formats not always being used to record discussions or to detail an action plan for what happened next.
it was not always clear whether or how the interventions agreed in action plans would be evaluated.
Slide 8: SAI Audit findings:
children’s views needed to be more effectively taken into account at SA&I meetings.
Case coordinators were not consistently identified or there was a lack of clarity over the role.
The role of the chairperson needed to be better understood by professionals and more consistently addressed.
Slide 9: Staged Assessment & Intervention
IS
GIRFEC
Slide 10: Single Shared
Assessment SAI Lead
Professional Priorities: what do we focus on?
Slide 11: SAI Chairing
meetings Service
User
Involvement Action
Planning
(SHANARRI)
Slide 12: Lead
Professional Cross
service
accountability What
does the
role involve? Continuity
e.g.
transition How
do we
identify?
Slide 13: Single Shared
Assessment Proportionate Risk/
Need Consistent
Across
services Recording
Slide 14: SAI Service
User
Involvement Chairing
meetings Action
Planning
(SHANARRI) Lead
Professional Cross
service
accountability What
does the
role involve? How
do we
identify? Continuity
e.g.
transition Single Shared
Assessment Proportionate Risk/
Need Consistent
Across
services Recording
one plan, which is : one plan, which is Proportionate
Consistent
Can be built on between stages and between agencies
Outcomes focussed