4 CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES PARTNERSHIP Minute of the meeting of the Children, Young People and Families Partnership held in the Hay Room, Dewar s Centre, Glover Street, Perth on Friday 19 February 2016 at 10.00am. Present: B Malone, Chief Executive, Perth and Kinross Council (Chair) Councillor B Band, Perth and Kinross Council Councillor B Vaughan, Perth and Kinross Council Councillor E Maclachlan, Perth and Kinross Council B Atkinson, Chief Social Worker, PKC S Devlin, Education and Children s Services, PKC J Flynn, Perth & Kinross Community Health Partnership K Fowlie, Senior Manager (Planning)/Child Health Commissioner, NHS Tayside J Fyffe, Senior Depute Chief Executive (Equality, Community Planning & Public Service Reform), PKC M Lock, Voluntary Action Perthshire J Pepper, Education and Children s Services, PKC Chief Inspector M Pettigrew, Police Scotland J Walker, Depute Chief Executive (Corporate & Community Development Services), PKC In Attendance: L Paterson and Dr L Stewart (both NHS Tayside); L Cameron, P Davison, R Hucsynska, F Mackay, C Mackie and L Brown (all PKC). Apologies: Observer: E Devine, PKCHP; Detective Superintendent C Gall, Police Scotland; P Graham, PKAVS; A Gerry, Scottish Children s Reporter Administration; J Gilruth, PKC; C Harris, Procurator Fiscal; S Hay NHS Tayside Board; D McLennan, Action for Children Scotland; F Steel, Action for Children Scotland; P Wilson, Vice Principal Academic, Perth College. Councillor W Wilson, PKC 1. WELCOME AND APOLOGIES B Malone in the Chair B Malone welcomed all to the meeting. Apologies for absence were submitted and noted as above. 2. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST There were no declarations of interest in terms of the relevant Codes of Conduct.
Partners unanimously agreed to vary the order of the agenda to the hear NHS presentations as the next item of business. 3. NHS PRESENTATIONS Transformation of School Nursing Programme Partners received a presentation from Lesley Paterson, Community Team Leader Children, Young People and Families, Perth and Kinross CHP on the transformation of the school nursing programme. L Paterson detailed the work of the Scottish Government s School Nursing Sub-Group to define the role of a contemporary school nurse service to deliver safe, effective and person-centred nursing care based on the Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) National Practice model. The adoption of a national approach to the School Nurse (SN) role and associated wider team had been agreed and NHS Tayside (Perth and Kinross only) and NHS Dumfries were selected along with several other NHS Scotland Boards to test the agreed model. NHS Fife were selected to pilot the mental health and wellbeing pathway. The speaker advised that the SN role will be focused and targeted on 9 priority areas as follows: Mental health and wellbeing Substance misuse Child protection Domestic abuse Looked after children Homeless children and families Children known to or at risk of involvement in Youth Justice System Young carers Transition points Details of the role of support workers, staff nurses and health improvement leads and of local progress achieved to date was provided. In responding to questions L Paterson advised that additional training will be required for the workforce in the 9 priority areas. She confirmed no additional resources were being provided and that existing resources would have to be reprioritised. B Malone thanked Lesley Paterson for her informative presentation. A progress report be submitted to the Partnership meeting on 4 November 2016 (LP NHS Tayside).
(ii) Childhood Obesity The Partnership received a presentation from Dr Laura Stewart on the activities of the Paediatric Overweight Service Tayside (POST). The speaker advised that in 2015 63 children from Perth and Kinross were referred to the POST service. The SCOTT and SCOTTlite clinical programmes continued to have excellent outcomes, showing a significant decrease in BMI SD, particularly in those under 8 years of age. Blairgowrie High School is piloting the Fun Fit Tayside (FFT) school programme. POST are in discussions with Perth High School to take part in their Nutrition week in March. However, no primary schools in Perth and Kinross have undertaken FFT and no primary school teachers have been trained the first year since 2011 that no training has taken place for Perth and Kinross primary school teachers. Currently, there is one 7-13 age group in Perth city being delivered by Mytime Active. A 5-7 age group in Perth and a teenagers group in Blairgowrie are planned after Easter. Group delivery will revert back to the POST team when the current funding for Mytime Active ends in July 2016. Dr Stewart advised that the Primary 1 statistics for 2014/15 which had been released on Tuesday showed a modest increase in children in Tayside classed as overweight or obese. Although the Tayside figure is higher than the Scottish average the figure for Perth and Kinross is the lowest across the Tayside area. Dr Stewart added that 25% of P1 pupils are classified as overweight or obese. There is a cultural element to this. Many parents found it difficult to acknowledge their child was overweight and a multi-agency approach is required to address the complex issue of child healthy weight. In responding to a question on the training of primary school teachers, S Devlin advised that not all primary teachers in Perth and Kinross are trained, however, there were many other aspects of health and wellbeing they are taking forward. She gave an assurance that Education and Children s Services is absolutely clear who it is in a school they would want to train, however it can be difficult to free teachers from the classroom due to lack of supply cover. With limited resources the Service wanted to target resources appropriately and would continue to work with NHS colleagues on this. S Devlin advised that she had arranged to meet with Dr Stewart and J Flynn to discuss the matter further. In responding to a further question Dr Stewart advised that a child requiring input from a clinical psychologist only had to wait a few weeks for an appointment. B Malone thanked Dr Stewart for her informative presentation.
LESLEY PATERSON AND DR LAURA STEWART LEFT THE MEETING AT THIS POINT. 4. MINUTE OF MEETING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE S STRATEGIC GROUP OF 6 NOVEMBER 2015 The Minute of the Meeting of the Children and Young People s Strategic Group of 6 November 2015 was submitted and approved as a correct record. 5. MATTERS ARISING Health and Social Care Integration and the Implications for Children s Services (Item 4(ii) refers) B Malone referred to the new Health and Social Care Integration Joint Board (IJB) and its responsibility to support vulnerable children and advised that the Children Young People and Families Partnership would require its remit to reflect those changes. (ACTION JP). (ii) Perth and Kinross Child Protection Committee (CPP) (Item 6 refers) J Pepper provided an update on the business of the Perth and Kinross Child Protection Committee (CPC), this had included: development of the CPC s 3 year Improvement Plan the first quarterly report on the new management framework reviewing the Multi-Agency Screening Group to reconsider how it operates in terms of GIRFEC and the Named Person the holding of a Master Class on the topic of Child Sexual Exploitation which had been successful in raising the awareness of those attending to the complexity of risk to children. a joint meeting with the Children, Young People and Families Partnership which had provided partners with the opportunity to work together and discuss the challenges going ahead a further development day is being planned B Malone referred to the Master Class on CSE and to the excellent contribution from the Crown Prosecution Services and suggested that what had been learned from the Master Class should be incorporated into the Improvement Plan. To include within the update of the business activities of the Child Protection Committee to the next meeting of the Partnership a report drawing together key themes and developments in relation to child protection (ACTION JP).
6. OVERVIEW OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES PARTNERSHIP LOCALITY EVENTS There was submitted a report by the Head of Children and Families Services, Perth and Kinross Council (G/16/32) presenting the initial feedback from the locality events which had been held to support the development of a more local approach to leading and planning services for children, young people and families. The report highlighted the shared themes and unique personality of place of the localities and proposed the next steps towards locality planning, setting out options to address the actions which had been identified within each locality. B Malone advised that S Hay had requested that a summary of the report be circulated to the Health and Social Care Integration Joint Board (IJB) and to Dr Drew Walker, the Director of Public Health and Neil Prentice, the Director of Mental Health Services. S Hay had also commented on the issues of rural poverty and rural isolation, advising that as services became ever more centralised for good clinical and financial reason the issue of rural isolation would only increase and this would put pressure on the Council and the Health Board to think about affordable ways to address this. He had noted that Mental Health seemed to be an issue in certain areas and suggested the results of these events should be fed back to NHS Tayside. He had further noted from the report that data management and stats were clearly an issue and emphasised the importance of having a data management strategy that ensured the Council and Health Board systems were as well interfaced as possible. (ii) (iii) (iv) To note the six locality event reports appended to Report G/16/32. To share Report G/16/32 with the Community Planning Policy Team to support the development of Stories of Place (ACTION JP). To submit the report to the Community Planning Partnership Board (ACTION JP). To circulate a summary of the report to the IJB, Dr Drew Walker and Neil Prentice of NHS Tayside (ACTION CM/JP). 7. GIRFEC (GETTING IT RIGHT FOR EVERY CHILD) UPDATE There was submitted a report by the Director (Education and Children s Services), Perth and Kinross Council (G/16/33) providing: (1) an update on progress in relation to the implementation of GIRFEC in Perth and Kinross, and (2) presenting an action plan for the continued implementation of GIRFEC and key parts of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2016. B Atkinson noted the very positive survey results but noted the need to step up the pace on strategic commissioning. J Fyffe reported that additional resources had been put into the development of GIRFEC nationally and also
by the Council. The development of a Tayside Single Child s Plan will assist the joint approach to GIRFEC across services in Tayside. To note the key provisions of the Act which will come into force on 31 August 2016. (ii) To note the progress of the National Third Sector GIRFEC Action Plan for Perth and Kinross (iii) To approve the main areas of focus for the GIRFEC Action Plan for Perth and Kinross as set out in Report G/16/33 and the appendix thereto. (iv) To request the Partnership receive an update report in advance of the August meeting on the state of readiness for the commencement of the new duties under Parts 4,5 and 18 of the Act (ACTION JP). 8. PROGRESS UPDATE EVIDENCE2SUCCESS/EARLY YEARS COLLABORATIVE There was submitted a report by the Director (Education and Children s Services), Perth and Kinross Council (G/16/34) providing a summary of the continued progress of Evidence2Success and the Early Years Collaborative on improving the priority outcomes for children and young people identified following Evidence2Success. Following consideration of the report, the Partnership agreed: To note the further development of Evidence2Success and the Early Years Collaborative activities as set out in Report G/16/34. (ii) To request a further report be submitted to the Partnership within 6 months time outlining progress in the delivery of the actions outlined within the report (ACTION FMackay). (iii) An analysis of the learning from the independent evaluation be prepared for submission to the meeting of the Partnership on 20 May 2016 (ACTION FMackay). (iv) A link to the published report on the first two and a half years of E2S commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation be sent to all partners (ACTION FMackay). 9. THEMATIC APPROACH TO PERFORMANCE REPORTING There was submitted a report by the Director (Education and Children s Services), Perth and Kinross Council (G/16/35) proposing a thematic reporting plan for performance/outcome information focused on children, young people and families and setting out a suite of information focused on the first of these themes, namely Child Health and Development, for consideration and scrutiny by the Partnership. During discussion Partners enquired if more information was available on how many children and vulnerable 2s are not reaching expected developmental
milestones at the time of their 27-30 month health review and what was being done to address issues with speech, language and communication for those children and vulnerable 2s. S Devlin advised that much work was being undertaken to address issues with speech, language and communications and that a presentation could be given to a future meeting on this. (ii) To approve the thematic reporting timetable as set out in Appendix 1 to Report G/16/35. To extend an invitation to Diane Caldwell and Morag Dorwood to make a joint presentation which provides partners with an overview of data for the 27-30 month health review, and how we follow up on this for young people, and (2) on work being undertaken with children and vulnerable 2s to address issues with speech, language and communication (ACTION C MACKIE). 10. THRIVE J Pepper reported that a key component of this Public Social Partnership which was funded by Scottish Government in 2014/15 and again in 2015/16 involved work at Perth Prison to support contact and family relationships with young children. Discussions were currently taking place with Perth Prison on a scaled down model which, if agreed, it is hoped will enable the work to be continued from April 2016 onwards. 11. EARLY YEARS CHANGE FUND RETURN TO THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT There was submitted a report by the Director (Education and Children s Services), Perth and Kinross Council seeking approval of the draft Early Years Change Fund 2014/15 Return to the Scottish Government. The draft Early Years Change Fund Return for 2014/15 be submitted to the Scottish Government. 10. ANY OTHER COMPETENT BUSINESS No further business was considered. 11. DATE OF NEXT MEETING The Partnership noted the next meeting would be held at 10.00am on Friday 20 May 2016.