13 March 2012 - Scottish Government

• The real willingness for 16 and 17 year olds to be kept away
from the criminal justice system and look at diversional
measures
• The ACPOS lead on GIRFEC was expected to be ACC Allan
Moffat, in order to capture the preventive aspect of GIRFEC.
In discussion it was suggested that the consistent rate of 88% of
referrals from the police should be more evenly spread if early
intervention were happening and it would be possible to look at the
differences in referral rates in each local authority area, which were
available through the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration
(SCRA). It was suggested that it might therefore be a good
measure of how implementation of GIRFEC is progressing. The
importance of linking in with housing personnel was also raised, as
they are often the only ones going into a house.
Mike Foulis observed that there was work to extend the Whole
Systems Approach across the country and beyond offence
referrals, and that there seemed to be agreement that, where the
approach was implemented, it had been effective in reducing
timescales and the number of referrals.
3.5 Third sector
Carole Patrick highlighted that there was lots of good practice to
build on and work going on around how to link the Supporting Third
Sector Embedding of GIRFEC Locally National Project with the
Early Years Change Fund.
Gareth Allen reported that the meeting of the Supporting Third
Sector Embedding of GIRFEC Locally National Project Scoping
Group on 14 March would focus on the delivery mechanism for the
project, which would allow an update on this to be made to the
board in June.
GIRPB/06/02
Action: Update the board on the delivery mechanism for the Supporting
Third Sector Embedding of GIRFEC Locally National Project.
3.6 Meeting of NHS Change Managers (CEL 29)
Yvonne Strachan
26 June 2012
John Froggatt reported that the meeting of NHS Change Managers
on 29 February had been attended by 12 of the 14 territorial health
boards and all of the special health boards, indicating a good level
of buy-in. The group had received updates on the policy context for
GIRFEC, progress on implementation (which raised awareness of
the support available), GIRFEC in the context of the NHS, the
Maturity Model and the Children’s Services Bill consultation. There
was also feedback from each of the Change Managers on the
challenges within their own areas, the insight from the special
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