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‘How do we get it right for every child looked after at home?’
Mike MawbyImplementation Advisor
Scottish Government GIRFEC Team
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Each individual practitioner must accept accountability for their own practice. They have a job to do and cannot put their trust in what might follow by others to justify their own actions or inactions
Lord Laming – The Victoria Climbié Inquiry
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Everyone’s responsibility to ask:1. What is getting in the way of this child or young person’s
well-being?2. Do I have all the information I need to help this child or
young person?3. What can I do now to help this child or young person?4. What can my organisation do to help this child or young
person?5. What additional help, if any, may be needed from
others?
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Protective environmentAdversity
Vulnerability
Resilience
Factors in the child’s environment acting as buffers to the negative
effects of adverse experience
Characteristics of the child, the family circle and wider
community which might threaten or challenge healthy development
Characteristics that enhance normal
development under difficult conditions
Life events or circumstances posing a
threat to healthy development
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It is everyone’s responsibility to make sure I am alright ……
“It is everyone’s job to promote the safety and wellbeing of children. Every agency, manager and practitioner that works with children or their families, including services that work primarily with adults, takes responsibility for their contribution to the safety and wellbeing of children, and for responding to any request for help.”
Boyd McAdam, Head of Better Life Chances Unit, Scottish Government
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Contact Details
[email protected]@MikeMawby and @girfec#bestplacetogrowuphttp://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/People/Young-People/gettingitright