To support and maintain the Children’s
Services Planning structure and processes.
To further promote the implementation
of The Children (Scotland) Act 1995.
For the purpose of developing corporate/multi-agency
planning, the following general points should be noted:
Putting the legislation into practice
requires closer working with other statutory agencies
and has implications for organisational structures
and training budgets.
A joint planning process provides
a common agenda and a positive strategic framework
and the challenge now is to develop joint working
gain shared commitment of skills and resources and
achieve real progress.
Production of a Children’s
Service Plan has encouraged and initiated joint working
between Council departments, statutory agencies and
the voluntary sector. This is widely seen as a positive
development leading to enhanced service delivery.
At local level in a number of areas,
positive opportunities have been identified for inter-agency
and cross-departmental training.
Developing best practice on joint
/corporate working.
Integrating and “joining
up” the Children (Scotland) Act with other major
initiatives including social inclusion, new community
schools / health promoting schools, and the Scottish
Childcare Strategy.
Development of services for disabled
children - involvement in decision making.
Improving strategies to address the social, educational
and health needs of ‘looked after’ young
people - throughcare and aftercare.
Development of fostering services
by supporting improvements in standards and the range
and level of foster care.
Training and Education issues :
Joint training with Educational Services.
Increasing preventative service,
through community based service development to sustain
children and young people in the community.
Action to sustain young people
aged 16 -17 years involved in serious / persistent
offending within the Children’s Hearing System.
Family Group Conferencing / Youth Support.
