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What key outcomes have we achieved?
NURTURED: Children and young people should live within a supportive family setting with additional assistance if required, or where this is not possible, within another caring setting, ensuring a positive and rewarding childhood experience.
Quality Indicator
Themes for NURTURED
- Minimising change and maximising consistency (in support, home/placement, preschool provision/ school and community.)
- Ensuring basic needs of children and young people are met and they have an advocate/ champion.
- Maintaining and developing positive relationships
Suggested Quantitative Indicators
1 N.1
Accommodated children with three or more placements in the current care episode
Jim Cameron
Area Services Manager
Glasgow City Council
Moves are not helpful
- Quantity as well as quality
1 N.2
Children placed in kinship care and whose carers support needs are being met
Jim Cameron
Area Services Manager
Glasgow City Council
- Keeping children with people they know
- Some financial support
1 N.3
Accommodated children returned to their family who are still with them 6 months later
Jim Cameron
Area Services Manager
Glasgow City Council
- Indicator of success
- Support family for success
1 N.4
Looked after children who have a consistent relationship with a social worker
Jim Cameron
Area Services Manager
Glasgow City Council
- Being there and Championing the child
1 N.5
- Children under 5 placed in adoptive placement or permanent substitute family within 12 months of being continuously accommodated away from home
Jim Cameron
Area Services Manager
Glasgow City Council
- Value of minimising period of uncertainty
- Children aged 5 and over placed in adoptive placement or permanent substitute family within 24 months of being continuously accommodated away from home
1 N.6
Sibling groups placed together when becoming accommodated or subsequently
Jim Cameron
Area Services Manager
Glasgow City Council
- Reasons not to keep siblings together
- Difficulty of resource constraints
1 N.7
Children receiving planned support on a voluntary basis from social work
Hazel Fraser
Stirling Council
- Support on voluntary basis
- Working in partnership with parents and other agencies
- First time there has been an indicator for voluntary work
1 N.8
Accommodated children who had (direct or indirect) contact with their family and friends consistent with their care plan
Jim Cameron
Area Services Manager
Glasgow City Council
- Importance of contact with families
- Facilitating contact and assessing commitment
1 N.9
Accommodated children placed with foster carers or in a residential unit outwith the registration criteria
Anne-Marie McDonald
Area Manager
West Dunbartonshire Council
- Registration criteria for good reason
- 'Over numbers' should not drift on
- Consider foster carers and outcomes for children
- Placing to meet needs in residential care
- Reasons for placing outside criteria
- Ensuring aspects of care
- Flexibility and progress
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.
- National Care Standards for Care Homes for Children and Young People
- National Care Standards: Foster Care and Family Placement Services
- National Care Standards - School Care Accommodation Services
- Guidance in A Secure Remedy (copy may be obtained from Social Work Inspection Agency)
- Guidance in Supporting Young People Leaving Care in Scotland: Regulations and Guidance on Services for Young People Ceasing to be Looked After by Local Authorities
- The delivery of services to looked after children as set out in Part II of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995
