Children's Services Plan

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About the Plan
The Renfrewshire children's services plan aims to make sure that local services for children and young people are integrated and effective. It covers services for all children and young people, including those with additional support needs or who are vulnerable and in need. The plan pulls together existing strategies for children and young people from education, social work and health authorities.

The plan has been prepared taking account from advice and guidance issued by the Scottish Government and from the council's community partners including NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Strathclyde Police, Scottish Children's Reporter's Administration, and Who Cares Scotland. The plan follows the Scottish Government's 8-point vision for Scotland which seeks to ensure that children and young people are:

• safe
• nurtured
• healthy
• achieving
• active
• included
• respected, and
• responsible.

The Integrated Children's Services Plan emphasises the principal areas of shared concern where better joint working will significantly improve outcomes for children, while providing clear signposts to other agency plans and strategies which have an impact on Renfrewshire's children. The Renfrewshire partnership endorses the view that, where possible, children's needs should be met by individual services unless multi-disciplinary assessment indicates otherwise. The plan identifies our objectives and shared priorities to improve access to universal services for all, reduce exclusion and achieve better outcomes in the context of the national 8-point vision. As a local partnership, we will do this by:

• making access to services easier
• working together to protect children
• targeting services to those in greatest need
• raising the standard and quality of our services

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Downloads
Use the links below to download the various sections of the plan - some of these documents may take some time to download due to the large file sizes:

Executive Summary (pdf - 174KB)
Introduction (pdf - 114KB)
Working in partnership (pdf - 135KB)
Renfrewshire's profile (pdf - 172KB)
How we spend our money (pdf - 273KB)
How well are we doing 2003-04 (pdf - 148KB)
Involving young people and families (pdf - 107KB)
Services for all children (pdf - 196KB)
Children with additional support needs (pdf - 508KB)
Work force planning (pdf - 112KB)
Monitoring and evaluation (pdf - 67KB)
Action plan and local outcome targets(pdf - 1.32MB)
Appendices (pdf - 288KB)
Questionnaire (pdf - 47KB)

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The report below details the background and launch of the CD Rom, illustrating the key role that young people played in the production and launch, as well as the effective partnership working that took place between agencies to make sure that the launch was a success.

Sourced - CD Rom of Integrated Children's Services Plan (pdf - 20KB)

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Contacts
We welcome your views and comments on our plans. You can contact us by:

• email: childcare@renfrewshire.gov.uk
• phone: 0141 842 5174
• write to us:
  Social Work, 3rd Floor
  Child Care Section
  Renfrewshire House
  Cotton Street
  Paisley PA1 1TZ

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