Children's Services Plan - policy and legislative framework

Key Strategic Policy and Legislative Framework

  • Getting It Right for Every Child 
  • Children (Scotland) Act 1995
  • Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011
  • The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act (2014)

What are we delivering?

  • UNHCR Rights of the Child
  • Corporate Parenting
  • Local Parenting Strategy
  • Family Nurse Partnership Programme
  • Whole systems Approach to Youth Offending
  • Curriculum for Excellence and Action Plan
  • Implementing National Early Years Framework (2008)
  • Engaging in the Early Years Collaborative

Additional Key National and Local Policies

  • Self-Directed Services (2012)
  • Community Empowerment  (Scotland ) Bill (2014)
  • National Parenting Strategy (2012)
  • Scottish Government: Working with Children  and Adults who may be at risk of self-harm; practice guidance on information sharing , protection and confidentiality (2012)
  • NHSGGC Child and Maternal Health Planning Framework (2012)
  • Mental Health Strategy for Scotland: 2012-2015 (2012)
  • A Refreshed Framework for maternity services in Scotland (2011)
  • Refresh of Health for All Children (Hall4): NHS CEL 15 (2010)
  • Protection in Scotland (2010)
  • Inverclyde Community Planning Partnership’s Parenting Strategy (2011)
  • Looked after children and young people : we can and must do better (2007)
  • Child Sexual Exploitation; West of Scotland  Child Protection  Procedures