Getting it Right for Every Child

The Getting it right for every child Group in Moray has developed the Local Integrated Assessment and Planning Procedures (revised May 2011) and the LIAP Toolkit in line with the Scottish Government's national programme Getting it right for every child. This programme aims to improve outcomes for children and young people when services work together to assess and plan to meet their needs. 

The LIAP materials include one single child's plan which is the agreed multi agency assessment and report tool for all multi agency integrated working in Moray. This single child's plan should be used by all services delivering an action plan to meet children's and young people's needs.

Moray's Heads of Service require all practitioners to work in a multi agency integrated way with children and young people and to follow these procedures when identifying a need for a child or young person. Heads of Service have issued a memo which can be accessed here.

NB If the need is about potential, suspected or actual harm to a child or young person, professionals must follow Moray's Interagency Referral Discussion procedures for child protection.

Moray's LIAP Procedures are the overarching framework for all integrated assessment and planning processes to address the needs of children and young people in Moray. They are the core planning pathway for all services and all practitioners who work with children and young people, and have been ratified by all Directors and Heads of Service for: The Moray Council; NHS Grampian; Grampian Police and all voluntary sector/private sector agencies via their service level agreements.

In Moray, developments around the Getting it right for every child programme are directed, monitored and operationalised by the strategic multi agency GIRFEC Group. 

Moray's Getting it right for every child Group meets every 6 weeks. This Group consists of Heads of Service and Senior Managers from all agencies - statutory and voluntary - and is commissioned by the Safer and Stronger Theme Group, within the Community Planning structure, to ensure children's services planning in Moray is streamlined in line with national developments. You can read the Minutes from the GIRFEC Group meetings from 2010 and 2011 here.  

Local Integrated Assessment and Planning (LIAP) Procedures:

The Local Integrated Assessment and Planning Procedures Pack is available on these pages. Any updates to the procedures or supporting documentation will be issued via this website.

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Further information:

The Getting It Right For Every Child Group is formally represented by the following:

• Jeremy Akehurst, Performance and Strategy Manager, Children and Families’ Services: Chairperson
• Kathy Ross, Getting It Right For Every Child Development Officer, Minute Taker
• Graeme Gordon, Inclusion Development Manager, (Education)
• Graham Jarvis, Community Learning and Development Manager
• Jill Richards, Authority Reporter (Scottish Children's Reporter's Administration)
• Alison Scarffe, Specialist Nurse for Child Protection (Health)
• Sheila Erskine, Service Manager, Action for Children (Voluntary Sector)
• Gordon Sinclair, Casework Services Manager (Social Work: Children and Families)
• Hugh Mackie, Chief Inspector, Grampian Police
• Housing - Currently no representative

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For further information on the work of the Getting It Right For Every Child Group in Moray, please contact:

Jeremy Akehurst

Performance and Strategy Manager
The Moray Council
149 High Street
Elgin
Moray
IV30 1DS
Tel:01343 563608

Email: girfec@moray.gov.uk

For further information on the Scottish Government team, please contact:

Address:
Getting it right for every child team
Safer Children Stronger Families
Scottish Government
Area 2B(N)
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ

Email:  
gettingitrightforeverychild@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Voice Mail Box:
Tel: 0131 244 7389

Web Address:
www.scotland.gov.uk/gettingitright

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