Action
Prospects - Improving children’s wellbeing and lifechances
1. Improve attendance at school and early
years establishments, and attainment and
achievement of young people
Lead
By when
Identify who will
take this forward
Identify when
the task will
be completed
Karen Prophet
June 2015
Measure
Brief note of progress to date
if action already started
Percentage of half days
attended by pupils in early
years centres, mainstream
primary, secondary and
special schools
Average tariff score of
lowest performing 20% of S4
pupils in mainstream schools
Average tariff score of
middle performing 60% of S4
pupils in mainstream schools
Average tariff score of
highest performing 20% of
S4 pupils in mainstream
schools
Number of eligible two year
olds attending nursery
2. Reduce the attainment gap between the
lowest achieving pupils and their peers
across the city
Karen Prophet
June 2015
Progress (if appropriate)
Percentage of pupils gaining
5+ SCQF awards at Level 5 in
the 20% most deprived areas
(Scottish Index of Multiple
Deprivation)
Percentage of pupils gaining
5+ SCQF awards at Level 6 in
the 20% most deprived areas
(Scottish Index of Multiple
Deprivation)
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3. Develop more high quality childcare to meet
the needs of families on low incomes
Aileen McLean
December
2015
4. Increase the number of young people who
live in poverty who enrol in Edinburgh
College
Jane Handley
July 2015
5. All children in poverty can access breakfast
club provision
Aileen McLean
August 2015 Establish baseline from
6. Encourage development of more out of
school learning, development and mentoring
opportunities (e.g. inter-school social
education project)
7. Further develop family engagement,
Moyra Wilson
including strong home-school partnerships
and particularly for ‘hardly reached’ families.
Work with ‘hardly reached’ families living in
poverty to identify and use strategies to
address identified barriers to their children’s
learning.
Number of high
quality early
learning and
childcare hours per
year provided for
children receiving
their entitlement in
Local Authority
provision
Percentage of leavers from
families affected by poverty
who enrol at Edinburgh
College
survey
Increase by 10% per annum
Establish baseline
March 2016
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90% of
parents/carers
engaged in the
project are more
confident in
supporting their
children in meeting
their learning
targets
The learning
outcomes for
8. Raise awareness and understanding of the
impact of poverty on outcomes for children,
including with key professional groups such
as head teachers, teachers and school staff
Lynne Porteous
9. Make better use of existing data on our
children living in poverty, to improve
understanding of who and where they are.
Identify any data gaps.
John
Heywood/Business
Intelligence
Service
10. Support Healthy Start and the uptake of
vouchers
Graham
Mackenzie
11. Increase participation in high-value
David Bruce
achievement awards (e.g. Duke of
Edinburgh’s Award) by young people living in
poverty
August 2015
children receiving
additional family
support as a result
of being identified
as living in poverty
increases from the
baseline to an
agreed percentage
 High quality CPD
session run by Save
the Children in each
school in the HLE
Project
 Plan follow-up to
assess impact on
practice. Include a
measure in the SQIP
 Establish range of
data currently
available
 Assess how
effectively it is used
to inform
engagements with
children in poverty
Registration for Healthy Start
(food vouchers and vitamin
programme) will increase to
90% of those eligible in
selected areas of Edinburgh
Percentage of young people
from lowest achieving and
priority groups participating
in youth work and achieving
the Duke of Edinburgh’s
Award
12. Increase participation in employabilityDavid Bruce
related adult learning, especially literacy,
numeracy and ESOL
13. Further develop early intervention work with Graham
young teenage girls to prevent/reduce
Mackenzie/NHS
teenage pregnancies (to be consistent with
new Scottish Government strategy)
June 2015
Percentage increase in adult
learning participation
Rate (per 1,000) of teenage
pregnancies among under 16
year olds