Children’s Hearings Modernisation

Day 1 - Embracing Change

Children’s Hearings ModernisationHugh McNaughtan

Glasgow City Panel ChairDeputy Chair - CPCG

Children’s Hearings Modernisation

Joy KnightCPAG Chair

Perth & Kinross CPAC Chair

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Day 2 - Roles & Relationships

Children’s Hearings Modernisation

Shirley LaingDeputy Director – Children, Young

People& Social Care Dir

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Structures and Support

Current System

• CPACs – Scottish Ministerial appointees and local authority nominees - sub-CPAC members

• Clerks to the CPAC & Local Authority Panel Support

• Panel Chairs and Deputes• CHTUS - Tutors and Facilitators• Others

Room To Improve ?• Clarity on roles and responsibilities• Expectations of / obligations to partners• Minimising bureaucracy and hand-offs• Supporting panel members to focus on

children and families

Where We Need To Be

• Holding on to what’s best + honest about what we can and must do better

• A system that’s sustainable & reliable• Mutual Respect & Accountability - building

profile, consistency and credibility• Fairness and high standards supporting outcomes

for children

Modernisation- options for change

• Area Support Teams – advice for Convener• Implementation Working Group• Summer Engagement Events• Inverting the approach………..

Support and Structures Methods For Today

• Smarter, sharper Questions - Scoping Out Roles

• Assessing the added value – fully and frankly

• Going macro from the detail

• Feeding contributions to scenario modelling software – SCRA role

• ASTs – numbers, roles and reach

Children’s Hearings Modernisation – Modelling Scenarios

Malcolm Schaffer – Policy and PracticeElliott Jackson – Planning and Performance

SCRA

Children’s Hearings Modernisation – Learning from Parallel Experience

Karen Brady Convener - Guernsey CYCT

Children’s Hearings Modernisation – Training and Transition

Joan Rose – CHTOBarbara Reid - CHTO

Children’s Hearings Modernisation Pledge From Team:

We pledge to keep working with partners to deliver the best possible legislative package, and best advice for the National Convener and CHS. We will always be honest and inclusive- we pledge to tell you what we can, when we can. We promise to listen with an open mind, and to adapt our approach where policy permits. Where we can’t agree, we’ll tell you why.

Process of Change – working with and for volunteers

• Arlene Grubbs: Managing the Impact of Organizational Change on Volunteers– 4 Stages

• Resistance• Confusion• Integration • Commitment

Stage 1 - Resistance

• ‘If there are no opportunities for volunteers to express concern, outrage etc, these will continue to simmer and prevent volunteers from moving through the change process’

• Volunteer administrators: – ’be willing to say if you don’t know what is going

to happen’

Stage 2 - CONFUSION

• Volunteers…’begin to hunger for some clarity’.• Volunteer administrators: advice- ‘As much as the thought of hiding in your office

may be tempting, this is the time to be visible’.

Stage 3 -INTEGRATION

• Assisting volunteers to secure roles in the new environment.

• An opportunity to revitalise the partnership between paid and volunteer staff

• Important to help volunteers to see how the implemented changes will assist the organisation in performing its mission better.

Stage 4 - Commitment

• People begin to look to the future

• Hold to the course that’s been set while being open to new ideas

Overall

• ‘The good old days may not even look quite so good –

now that we’ve learned how to be even better’.

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Reflections on Event - Next Steps