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Scotland's children's services plans 2023-2026 review: improving outcomes for children, young people and families
Review of children's services plans for 2023 to 2026, in line with Part 3 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014. This report presents key findings from the review of Scotland’s 30 Children’s Services Plans (CSPs) which cover the planning cycle for 2023 to 2026.
Appendix B: Children’s Services Planning Statutory Review Criteria
| Number | Criteria | Does the Children’s Services Plan…. |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vision | Have a clear, ambitious compelling shared vision of what will be achieved by the end of the Plan? |
| 2 | National Performance Framework | Reflect relevant National Performance Framework Outcomes? |
| 3 | Joint Strategic Needs Assessment | Incorporate a robust evidence-based joint strategic needs assessment of the current population of the children and young people in its area? |
| 4 | Data | Include analysis of quantitative and qualitative evidence and data relating to both service performance and child wellbeing? |
| 5 | Manageable/Measurable Priorities | Identify a manageable number of measurable priorities clearly linked to the joint needs assessment to ensure the rationale behind priorities is explicit? |
6a 6b |
Children’s Services Related Services |
Cover local services which fall into the categories of both ‘children’s services’ and ‘related services’ in its scope? |
| 7 | Prevention & Early Intervention | Recognise and describe services which can fulfil both ‘primary prevention’ and ‘early intervention’ across all aspects of wellbeing? |
| 8 | GIRFEC | Describe how the Children’s Services Planning Partnership is creating and maintaining effective Getting it right for every child practice (GIRFEC) for individual children, young people and their families? |
| 9 | Children’s Rights | Describe how the CSPP is using children’s rights to inform the structural, procedural and outcome framework of the Plan? |
| 10 | Engagement & Ownership | Convey a shared sense of ongoing engagement and ownership with staff, children, young people, families and the wider community, evidencing full use of stakeholder’s ideas and suggestions? |
| 11 | Family Support | Set out a comprehensive strategy for supporting families through a broad range of preventative and early intervention approaches from universal services to targeted intensive support and describe the rationale for how and where the family support services are provided? |
| 12 | Resources | Describe what services are going to be developed in the future and specifying which areas will see disinvestment in order to facilitate the shift of resources towards preventative and early intervention options? |
| 13 | Monitoring Indicators | Set clear indicators for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of children’s services in terms of their success in responding to and addressing children’s wellbeing needs? |
| 14 | SMART | Present all the information in an easily accessible format which is SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-related)? |
| 15 | Links to Plans & Reports | Illustrate links (or incorporation) of other statutory plans and reports? |
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