Dr Deirdre McCormick NHS Health Scotland Early Year Annual Conference: Getting it Right for Every Child – The Story so Far…. Thursday 1st March 2012 Sterling Management Centre HKAAHKFHA Modernising Nursing in the Community Dr Deirdre McCormick Nursing Officer – Scottish Government Commission on the Future Delivery of Public Services – Key Conclusions • Budget constraints and increasing demand for services mean that Scotland’s public services have to work in a different way • Reform should pursue: i. services built around people and communities ii. working together to deliver outcomes iii. prioritising prevention, reducing inequalities and promoting equality iv. improving performance and reducing cost Scottish Government Response Pillars of Public Service Reform • Decisive shift towards prevention • Greater integration of services, better partnership, collaboration and effective local delivery • Greater investment in people who deliver services • Focus on improving performance through greater transparency, innovation and digital technology • Assets based approaches What do Children, Young People, Families, Carers and NHSS Staff Want? • Caring and Compassion • Collaboration • Continuity • Confidence • Clean and Safe Environment • Clinical Effectiveness Lack of clarity, inconsistency in roles and specification of community nursing services Underdeveloped skill mix Poor data collection and feedback to managers and staff Community Nurses Said……. Disproportionate amount of nurses’ time taken up with activities not directly related to care Current service models not managing efficiently the increasing complexity and volume of the workload Documentation, record keeping and referral processes do not take advantage of Ways of working not technology always consistent Some with the emerging services evidence base traditional and reactive to demand NHS Scotland Quality Strategy is About Three Things: 1. Listening and Responding to the Views and Experiences of People for Improving Services. 2. Building on the Values of NHSS Staff and Contractors and Their Commitment to Providing the Best Care Reliably – for Everyone and All of the Time by Supporting Leadership, Creativity and Innovation. 3. Making Quality Count – Measurable Improvement in the Aspects of Care Which Children, Young People and Families see as Important. Quality Strategy Aims • Safe - There will be no avoidable injury or harm to patients from healthcare they receive, and an appropriate clean and safe environment will be provided for the delivery of healthcare services at all times. • Person-centred - Mutually beneficial partnerships between patients, their families and those delivering healthcare services which respect individual needs and values and which demonstrate compassion, continuity, clear communication and shared decision making. • Effective - The most appropriate treatments, interventions, support and services will be provided at the right time to everyone who will benefit, and wasteful or harmful variation will be eradicated. Modernising Nursing in the Community Programme Board • Phase 1: Modernising Nursing in the Community Programme Board in place from September 2009 – December 2011 AIM • To provide leadership and vision to support NHS Boards to develop and deliver: - High Quality - Sustainable and - Person centred community nursing services. Children, young people and families MNiC Programme Board Nursing for work and well being Keeping people at home MODERNISING NURSING IN THE COMMUNITY SAFE, EFFECTIVE & PERSON CENTRED CARE CHILDREN YOUNG PEOPLE, FAMILIES Building workforce capacity & capability Improving efficiency ADULTS, OLDER ADULTS Utilising Telecare & Telehealth technology PEOPLE AT WORK Using care pathways Working with clients, carers & patients as partners Utilising high quality clinical outcomes Strengthening leadership & team working Promoting health & addressing inequality Providing choice & care in the right setting Working with other agencies & disciplines as partners Anticipating health needs & responding earlier Enabling and supporting self care INFORMING PRACTICE WITH POLICY, RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE DEVELOPING SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE THROUGH EDUCATION The MNiC framework brings together the elements required for safe, effective, person centred care in the community Effective Safe Person centred The 3 Quality Ambitions provide the focus for everything NHS Scotland does to deliver the best quality healthcare Community Nursing Care Children Young People and Families Sub Group Aim • To develop a framework for public health nursing 0-19 years (including preconception) which will assist NHS Boards in the provision of high quality, sustainable public health nursing in the community. Key Outputs from the CYP&F Sub Group Development of a Career Framework for Public Health Nursing and Community Children's Nursing Supported by NES Based on the 4 pillars used for advanced practice • Leadership • Facilitation of Learning • Evidence Research and Development Evidence Based Summaries 1. Public Health Interventions to Support Smoking Cessation and Prevention of Uptake 2. Public Health Interventions to Prevent Unintentional Injuries among the Under 15s 3. Public Health Interventions to Promote Maternal and Child Nutrition 4. Pregnancy and Complex Social Factors 5. Public Health Interventions to Support Mental Health Improvement 6. Weight Management in Pregnancy/Post Partum 7. Parenting 8. Looked After & Accommodated Children and Young People 9. Community Assets/Capacity Building 10. Substance Misuse (Drug and Alcohol) 11. Dental Health 12. Domestic Abuse 13. Sexual Health 14. Immunisation 15. Physical Activity 16. Obesity Community Nursing Workload Assessment Tool Available in May 2012 Leadership Development – Leading Better Care Phase 2 – – – – – Safe and effective clinical practice Contributing to the organisation’s objectives Managing and developing the performance of the team. Enhancing the patient experience Outcome Measures/Clinical Quality Indicators Releasing Time to Care in the Community MNiC Education Sub Group Three Key Strands – Support and advise on the development of the community component of the new nursing preregistration programmes. – Influence the modernisation of community nursing education programmes and the support for the wider workforce in line with NHS Board requirements. – Supervise the development of career frameworks to support community nursing. Where We Are Now? The Deficit Approach Where an Asset Way of Thinking Takes Us Start with deficiencies ad needs in the community Start with the assets in the community Respond to problems Identify opportunities and strengths Provides services to users Invest in people as citizens Emphasise the role of agencies Emphasise the role of civil society Focus on individuals Focus on communities/ neighbourhoods and the common good See people as clients and consumers receiving services See people as citizens and co-producers with something to offer Treat people as passive and done-to Help people to take control of their lives ‘Fix people’ Support people to develop their potential Implement programmes as the answer See people as the answer Assets based Narrowing the health gap Deficits based Redressing the balance between two approaches to promoting health and tackling health inequality Thinking Through the FNP Programme • To identify and examine the factors that are contributing to the success of the FNP Programme • To discuss how these could be sustained, supported, developed and transferred across nursing and related services in future terms • Consider the future of FNP in terms of its place within the wider nursing and midwifery family, career pathways, Top 4 Priorities • Supervision in MNiC • Sustaining and Maintaining FNP (within MNiC) • Education and Learning Development • Sharing the Knowledge and Learning from FNP Why share FNP Learning ? • FNP approach has potential to interrupt cycle of deprivation for this client group and maximise their life chances. • Approach has potential to transform wider services. • Manifesto commitment. What learning can be shared with universal services ? • • • • • • Skills and knowledge Workforce roles Service Delivery Systems Materials Model replication Ambitions for Community Nursing Ambition 1: That TODAY community nursing across all Scotland delivers the best quality, safe, effective and person centred care every time Ambition 2: That TOMORROW we maximise the potential of community nursing channelling resources and energies where it makes the most difference Ambition 3: That we secure the future of community nursing in Scotland BEYOND tomorrow by creating a world class service and world class practitioners Ros Moore, Chief Nursing Officer Scotland MNiC Website Launched 24th January 2012 Provides Users Evidence base Policy Drivers Practice exemplars Education and training opportunities Relevant resources MNiC Website address: www.mnic.nes.scot.nhs.uk/ John Dickie NHS Health Scotland National Early Years Conference 1st March 2012 www.cpag.org.uk/scotland Child poverty • Scale, extent and nature of child poverty in Scotland • Impact of that poverty – why it matters • What needs to be done? • (Context: progress to date, challenges, opportunities in Scotland, GIRFEC) • The role of early years services What do we mean by child poverty • Peter Townsend (Poverty in the UK, 1979) in poverty when “lack the resources to obtain the types of diet, participate in the activities and have the living conditions which are customary, or at least widely encouraged and approved, in the societies in which they belong” • not ‘just’ about income, but income central • relative to society you are in • not just survival, but social participation Scale and nature of child poverty • 250 000 (25%) children living in poverty (2009/10) • some children at particular risk − families affected by disability - one parent families - families without paid work • affects families across Scotland, but concentration and nature varies − ECP child poverty map of Scotland www.endchildpoverty.org.uk Impact of child poverty • poverty damages health – poverty kills − health compromised from birth – average birth weight 200g lower − 2 ½ times more likely to have chronic illness as toddlers − 3 times more likely to suffer mental disorders • poverty undermines learning − nine months behind by age three − gap widens as go through school • poverty undermines life chances − More likely to be unemployed as adult − More likely to be the parents facing poverty in the future • • • poverty damages childhoods poverty in Scotland may be “relative” but its impact on children is absolute Child poverty costs us all – est. £1.5billion a year What needs to be done? Context: Nothing inevitable about this poverty • Need to eradicate it, not just reduce it’s impact Not starting from scratch….. • Real progress: since 1997 100 000 fewer children in poverty • Policy worked: at UK and Scotland level • Political consensus: UK Child Poverty Act 2010 • Scottish government: Solidarity target, poverty framework and new Child Poverty strategy What needs to be done? Context cont. …..but huge challenges • progress had stalled even before recession/cuts • Over £18billion welfare cuts, hitting poorest hardest • IFS predict massive rise in child poverty • Scotland: little evidence that spending decisions being proofed for impact on child poverty despite national anti-poverty frameworks. Opportunities in Scotland? • • Getting it right for every child…. Access to advice and information − build on Healthier Wealthier Children • Preventative spend and early intervention − prioritise spending and delivery that prevent child poverty • • • Proposed legislation on children’s rights and services Commitment to supporting parents Existing commitments − Extend early years nursery provision − Free school meals and school clothing grant recommendations • Use of new welfare powers to protect poorest families? − social fund and council tax benefit replacements − revisit criteria for passported benefits • Build on commitments to Scottish Living Wage Role of early years providers? • Be aware, and promote awareness, of context of children’s lives and the barriers families face as incomes squeezed and prices rise • Support and promote practical solutions e.g. maximising family incomes, accessing services, reducing costs and removing barriers • Collectively advocate − Use knowledge and experience as tools in advocating for local, and national, policy proofing and structural changes needed Support from CPAG in Scotland Information, training and advice on: • Healthy Start Vouchers • Statutory Maternity Pay/Maternity Allowance • Sure Start Maternity Grant • Child Benefit • Child Tax Credit • Working Tax Credit – help with childcare costs • Other financial help for families • Making effective referrals for local advice • The new Universal Credit • www.cpag.org.uk/scotland/taxcredits/early_years.htm www.cpag.org.uk/scotland Boyd McAdam getting it right P for e ery child Getting it right for every child: the journey so far Collaborative working/ coordinated approach Boyd McAdam Head of Better Life Chances Unit Children’s Rights and Wellbeing Division Children and Families Directorate Health and Social Care Scottish Government www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright GIRFEC? getting it right P for e ery child + Grrr! www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright Oh Bother! What is Getting it right for every child? getting it right P for e ery child Evidenced best practice for children and young people that: • applies to all children and young people. • expects all relevant agencies (including adult services) to adapt and streamline their practices and systems around the National Practice Model • determines the national approach to improving outcomes for children and young people in Scotland, whatever their needs/risks • is based on research and evidence of best practice and proven benefits and will be backed up by legislation • leads to all relevant planning activity being brought together into a Child’s Plan for use by a single agency or several agencies working together to support the child. www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright getting it right P for e ery child www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright getting it right P for e ery child GIRFEC provides the shared goal for all to collaborate around Improved life chances for all children and young people www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright Well-being getting it right P for e ery child www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright getting it right P for e ery child www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright 5 Questions getting it right P for e ery child • What is getting in the way of this child or young person’s well-being? • Do I have all the information I need to help this child or young person? • What can I do now to help this child or young person? • What can my agency do to help this child or young person? • What additional help – if any – may be needed from others? www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright The Universal Pathways resource as a precursor to development of a Pathway of Care for Vulnerable Families (03) getting it right P for e ery child www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright GIRFEC getting it right P for e ery child • Appropriate • Proportionate • Timely www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright Culture, Systems, Practice change getting it right P for e ery child • • • • • • • Workforce Outcomes: understanding and measurement Leadership – at all levels Governance and accountability Common language and shared understanding Business process redesign Views and engagement of the child/ family www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright The 10 Core Components getting it right P for e ery child 1. Focus on improving outcomes for young people, based on shared understanding of well-being 2. Common approach to gaining consent and sharing information where appropriate 3. Integral role for children, young people and families 4. Co-ordinated approach to assessing needs, agreeing actions and outcomes, based on the Well-being Indicators 5. Streamlined planning, assessment and decision making leading to the right help at the right time www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright The 10 Core Components (continued) getting it right P for e ery child 6. High standards of co-operative working and communication 7. A Named Person for all children and a Lead Professional to co-ordinate multi-agency activity 8. Maximising the skilled workforce within universal services 9. A confident and competent workforce across all services 10. Capacity to share demographic, assessment, and planning information electronically www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright How is it being implemented? - 1 getting it right P for e ery child • • • • • Pathfinder – Highland Learning partners – West Lothian, Lanarkshire, Edinburgh – Domestic Abuse Pathfinders - Dumfries and Galloway, Falkirk, West Dunbartonshire Established CPP formations – Grampian, Tayside, Forth Valley, South East Scotland. Chief officer buy-in. Future formations? – Clyde Valley, Ayrshires, Glasgow, West, Islands Also links Highland, Fife, D&G www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright How is it being implemented? - 2 getting it right P for e ery child • • • • A programme approach under the governance of the GIRFEC Programme Board (SG; COSLA; Health Chief Execs; ADES; ADSW; ACPOS; Third sector (Chair); SCCYP, SOLACE) Specific sector support - NHS CEL 29/ 2010; - ACPOS (endorsement; national management of concerns; IM) Cross party support (Dec 09); Children’s Summit pledge (June 2010); SNP manifesto commitment to legislation: Scrutiny/ Performance Improvement: Care Inspectorate embedding GIRFEC in inspection regime, working with Education Scotland and HIS. www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright GIRFEC Programme Board Five Key Implementation Priorities getting it right P for e ery child • Identifying a Named Person for every child and young person in the universal services. • Identifying protocols and governance for Lead Professional. • Supporting partnerships to take a proportionate approach to managing all concerns and risks. • Redesign business processes to secure a single planning process for all children and young people supporting a single plan. • Ensuring the use of the National Practice Model. www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright How the maturity model works Level 1 – initial Level 2 – established Level 3 – business enabling Level 4 – quantitatively managed Level 5 – optimised www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright getting it right P for e ery child getting it right P for e ery child Proce ss 1. Identi fying a Name d Perso n for every child and youn g perso n in the unive rsal servic es Level 1 – Initial Awareness that GIRFEC is critical to Business and Legal Requirements Level 2 – Awareness GIRFEC is widely understood and processes are in place Level 3 – Business Enabling GIRFEC process are implemented in critical areas of the business Level 4 – Quantitatively Managed The number of corporate exceptions to implementing GIRFEC processes are known and reported Level 5 – Optimised Responsive GIRFEC processes are integrated as part of normal business 1.1.1 Chief Officer recognition that identification of Named Person in Universal Services is essential to the implementation of GIRFEC. 1.1.2 Commitment to having a Named Person is clearly set out in messages from the top of the organisation. 1.1.3 Inter-agency agreement on who within Universal Services is appropriate to take on Named Person role. 1.1.4 Senior Officers within each organisation are responsible for taking the process forward. 1.1. 5 There is a GIRFEC policy and it has been signed off at senior level. 1.1.6 Chief Officers have a clear vision of what transformed services for children, young people and families will look like. 1.1.7 There is a commitment from Chief Officers to consulting and engaging with children and families. 1.2.1 Senior Officers with delegated responsibility understand and accept their responsibility for the effective implementation of the Named Person within Universal Services. 1.2.2 Senior Officers have in place an effective management system, a plan and realistic timescale for implementation. 1.2.3 Chief Officers endorse organisational strategies and standard operating procedures for implementation of Named Person. 1.2.4 Clear guidance on information sharing in support of GIRFEC has been published, guidance and training is available. 1.2.5 A strategy that identifies and measures the benefits to organisations of implementing GIRFEC is in place. 1.2.6 Children and families have been consulted and are aware of the role of Named Person. 1.3.1 Appropriate business processes are designed and developed to support role of Named Person. 1.3.2 Staff identified as suitable to undertake Named Person role have been consulted. 1.3.3 A training strategy is in place for those staff taking on the Named Person role. 1.3.4 Effective monitoring and evaluation systems to assess the implementation process have been developed and agreed. 1.3.5 There is evidence that the views and opinions of children and families have informed the design and development of all business processes. 1.4.1 Monitoring and evaluation processes have been implemented, data has been collected and analysed. 1.4.2 Blockages and delays to implementation are identified. 1.4.3 Areas of best practice are identified. 1.4.4 Progress reports have been submitted to Chief Officers for review. 1.4.5 Chief Officer views and comments have been noted and shared. 1.4.6 Senior Officers have in place plans to address blockages and delays that are endorsed by Chief Officers. 1.4.7 Systems are in place to monitor that the views and opinions of children and families have been actively sought. 1.5.1 Each child has a Named Person in Universal Services. 1.5.2 Systems and processes to support this role are in general use throughout organisations. 1.5.3 Procedures to manage concerns are in place. 1.5.4 There is broad community awareness and understanding of the role of the Named Person. 1.5.5 Systems and processes to consult and engage with children and families are in general use throughout organisations. www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright getting it right P for e ery child Process Level 1 – Executive Sponsorship Commitment at the most senior level Level 2 – Corporate Strategy GIRFEC is widely understood across the organisation Level 3 – Service Development GIRFEC process are implemented in critical areas of the business Level 4 – Implementation Corporate exceptions to implementing GIRFEC processes are known and reported Level 5 – Embedded Responsive GIRFEC processes are integrated as part of normal business 1. Identifying a Named Person for every child and young person in the universal services 1.1.1 Commitment to having a Named Person is clearly set out in messages from the top of the organisation. 1.1.2 There is inter-agency agreement on who within Universal Services is appropriate to take on Named Person role. 1.2.1 A strategy that identifies and measures the benefits of implementing a Named Person is in place. 1.3.1 Appropriate business processes are designed and developed to support role of Named Person. 1.3.2 Senior Officers within each organisation are responsible for taking the process forward. 1.3.3 Delivery of multi agency awareness raising sessions to appropriate staff 1.4.1 Monitoring and evaluation processes have been implemented, data has been collected and analysed. 1.4.2 Blockages and delays to implementation are identified. 1.5.1 There is broad community awareness and understanding of the role of the Named Person. 1.5.2 Areas of best practice are identified. www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright Purpose getting it right P for e ery child By embedding best practice approach: • supports better information sharing: more better quality, more appropriate information, common language/shared understanding • increased trust among professionals • children and families more engaged + understand better the who, the what and the why – and their respective roles • encourages early, effective intervention leading to prevention •better involvement of children and young people in decisionmaking • information sharing: appropriate with consent • ensure children don’t fall out of our radar (national + local need) • reduced bureaucracy for children and families/ releases resources • outcomes focused www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright Sir Harry Burns Hilary Third National Parenting Strategy Hilary Third Team Leader: Parenting Early Years: Children & Families Hilary.Third@scotland.gsi.gov.uk Background/context • Early Years Framework • Joining The Dots • GIRFEC • SNP Manifesto 2011 Why the focus on parenting? • Supporting parents key to improving lives and futures of children and young people • Building resilience, capacity, confidence and skills of parents • Fundamental to early intervention/preventative spend • Relevance to a wide range of outcomes child and maternal health; modernising nursing in the community; maternity services; social work; early learning and childcare; play; youth justice; children affected by parental substance misuse; looked after children; child protection; GIRFEC; children’s legislation; children’s rights; disabled children; curriculum for excellence; parental involvement in schools; nutrition; domestic abuse; violence reduction; reducing crime; third sector; reducing reoffending; family law; drugs; tobacco, alcohol use; sexual health; poverty; employability; skills and literacy; equality; healthy working lives; positive behaviour in schools; housing management’ homelessness; antisocial behaviour; carers/young carers; social services workforce; health inequalities; mental health; planning…….. Why a national parenting strategy? • Articulate the contribution parenting makes to a better Scotland • Ensure the importance of parenting/parenting support is embedded in policy and delivery • Make the case/create the right conditions for improving support to parents at national and local level • Place a higher value on parenting (and C&YP) in wider society • Improve the lives of children and young people growing up in Scotland Scope of the strategy • All parents (not just vulnerable families) • All those in parental role (including the corporate parent) • Parenting of children of all ages (not just new parents, not just early years) • Encouraging a broader community responsibility to support parenting • Specific focus on fathers • Address issues which interfere with parenting Links with GIRFEC • A child’s network of support starts with family and community • Same principles – child-centred, using the right approach to support every family • Parent’s role in protecting/ensuring their child’s wellbeing (SHANARRI) • Getting it right for every family A Phased Approach Phase I National overarching strategy Phase II?? Parenting in the early years Parenting older children through to adulthood Preparing our children and young people to be the parents of the future Phase III?? Improving practical support available to National Overarching Strategy (phase I) • ‘Set out our stall’ on parenting • Draw links with other policy areas and outcomes • Define our aspirations (link with evidence) • Provide an overview of current activity (building on what works) • Articulate views of parents (and C&YP and practitioners) • Set out plans for more detailed work in phase II and III Aligning policy and delivery throughout • National strategy needs to complement good work already underway locally • National approach must have credibility and coherence from delivery perspective • Focusing on approaches/interventions that make a difference (evidence) • Importance of working together with delivery partners to agree a national approach and to align local activity • Key role for services – what are the • Activity must make a difference to parents and parenting in Scotland. • It must make a difference to children and young people growing up in Scotland. Tam Baillie