Children and Young People (CYP) – pre-birth to 18, or up to the 26th birthday for care leavers in receipt of aftercare or continuing care, who may or may not be resident with the family.
Family - this toolkit refers to all families, not only those already accessing family support. Family will be as defined by them themselves, recognising some CYP may belong to more than 1 family.
Service/Organisation – any resource, statutory or 3rd sector who is providing holistic whole family support.
Staff – any person representing a service in a paid or unpaid role.
Stakeholders - all CYP, all families, staff within and outside your organisation, communities, Highland Community Planning Partnership.
System – The system is defined as all stakeholders whose relationships are key to actualising the vision of holistic whole family support in Highland.
Collaborate – working jointly to achieve a shared goal with shared purpose.
‘Reach in’ – families are and feel empowered, having confidence to express their need and access the support they need when they need it.
Community of practice – stakeholders in Highland who share a concern or a passion for holistic whole family support and interact regularly to learn how to do it better.
Data – information available from family, community and service narratives plus numerical data and research evidence from local and national sources
Evidence based need – stakeholders are consistently data driven to review, develop and enhance holistic family support in Highland.
SHANARRI – the 8 GIRFEC principles that very child should be: safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible, included.
SOCIAL PRESCRIBING - is about people finding out what matters to them. It is about helping them to find the right support when they need it, connecting them with activities, groups and services in their local community that can help address some of the challenges and issues that they may be struggling with.
GIRFEC Staged Intervention Model
- Universal Support and Information – Children, young people and families are thriving with no additional support needs.
- They access everyday services e.g. Education, early years settings, GP, community services.
- Early Intervention and Prevention – services that support children, young people, and families before they meet the threshold for intervention from children’s services.
- Enhanced Support - the child, young person and family’s needs may require multi-agency interventions at substantial level.
- Intensive Support - the child, young person’s and family are assessed as having exceptional additional support needs, an intense level of multi-agency coordination is required and a co-ordinated support plan is in place which may include statutory measures.
SMART Action Planning (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely)
- a manageable number of improvement priorities which focus on areas for development to improve outcomes for children, young people and families
- the impact that improvement actions may have should be measurable
- clearly identified responsibilities for implementation linked to named individuals, lead services or partnership groups
- clear timescales with milestones, deadlines and dates for reviewing actions if necessary
- measures of success that include performance data, quality measures and stakeholders’ views.
Fair Work Practices
Fair Work First is a Scottish Government policy which applies to any public sector funding, awarded on or after 1 July 2023. If you are awarded a grant, you will be required to follow the guidance to adopt fair work practices within your organisation, in a way that is relevant and proportionate to the activity you have agreed to deliver. The criteria to pay the real Living Wage and provide appropriate channels for effective workers’ voice, are the minimum terms that apply to grant recipients of this fund.