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There was submitted a report by the Director of Children’s Services relative to the Children’s Services Partnership Plan 2018/21.
The report intimated that Part 3 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act placed a joint duty on local authorities and health boards to produce three-yearly children’s service plans. To allow a full analysis of the children’s wellbeing data which was returned in February 2017, the Renfrewshire Children’s Services Partnership agreed to produce an interim plan for 2017/18 which was approved at the meeting of this Policy Board held on 1 June 2017.
The report advised that a new three-year Children’s Services Partnership Plan for 2018/21 had now been produced in collaboration with children and young people, Council colleagues, statutory partners and third sector organisations. Taking into account feedback from children and young people, the Partnership had created a ‘Plan on a Page’ which conveyed all of the essential information required of a plan in a manner which was accessible to children and young people.
The 'Plan on a Page' was underpinned by detailed action plans which set out how partners would deliver the Plan and how progress would be monitored. Finalisation of the action plans would take place once the recommendations of the national Child Protection Improvement Programme had been released and the new inspection framework had been published.
DECIDED:
(a) That the Children’s Services Partnership ‘Plan on a Page’ including the interactive multi-media resources be approved; and
(b) That the ongoing development of detailed action plans to support delivery of the priorities detailed in the Plan be noted. The action plans would be finalised when the new inspection framework and requirements of the new national minimum dataset were confirmed by the Scottish Government. This was anticipated to be during early summer 2018.