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What key outcomes have we achieved?
INCLUDED: Children, young people and their families should have access to high quality services when required and should be assisted to overcome the social, educational, physical, environmental and economic barriers that create inequality.
Quality Indicator
Themes for INCLUDED
- Identifying and addressing the needs of all groups of children and young people in need of services (including for example young carers, those affected by substance misuse, those with disabilities, ethnic and other minorities, and care leavers.)
- Overcoming barriers to participation in education, employment and training;
- Accessing opportunities for recreation and leisure that are available to peers
- Supporting transition to adulthood
Suggested Quantitative Indicators
1 INC.1
Young carers who are identified and accessing their planned support
Amanda Paul
Senior Planning Officer
North Lanarkshire Council
Importance of indicator for young carers- A definition of young carer
1 INC.2
Young carers who are in education, employment or training
Amanda Paul
Senior Planning Officer
North Lanarkshire Council
- Opportunities for young carers
1 INC.3
Care leavers (under 19) who have experienced a period of homelessness in past year
Pam Smith
Edinburgh City Council
- Housing difficulties for care leavers
- Indicator will help us learn about capacity to support
- Sustaining safe appropriate housing
- Helping young people 'make a go' of housing
1 INC.4
Care leavers (under 19) who are in education, employment or training
Pam Smith
Edinburgh City Council
- Indicator for the least included group
- Understanding the reasons behind participation rates
1 INC.5
Children who receive the equipment and adaptations to meet their assessed needs
1 INC.6
Young people transferring to adult services for whom planning has begun at least one year in advance of transition
Standards and Guidance
Your service standards, protocols, procedures and service level agreements should take account of all relevant guidance and recommendations. Some useful references are given below.
- Youth Justice standards
- Guidance on supporting young people leaving care in Scotland
- HGIOS? Evaluating educational and care placements is a useful tool to assess whether the learning environments offered to children in need and looked after children are of high quality and regularly assessed.
- How good are our services to young carers? - currently under development
- Race relations amendment act
- The Children (Scotland) Act 1995
