Allied Health Professions and Education : Partnership

Working Project

Nicola Robinson (AHP) Donald Ewing (Educ.)Development Officers - Schools/Health

Directorates 2008-2010

Aims of the project are…

• improve experiences and outcomes for children, young people and their families

• support Sc. Gov. Purpose and National Outcomes of the National Performance Framework

• support recommendations from current children’s policy agenda for joint working –

ASL Act, GIRFEC, CFE, Health Promotion, Early Years Framework, BHBC, Equally Well

• promote and support partnership working between education services and AHPs – SLT, PT and OT

We will achieve this by…

1. Engagement with key agencies and stakeholders (3 phases)

2. Developing National Guidelines

3. Including supporting CPD materials

Key agencies and stakeholders

• Meetings: LAs and NHS/AHPs mainstream/special schools

including grant-aided special schools

• Linking with related Health and Education work streams e.g GIRFEC, CFE, ASL, Health & Wellbeing in Schools Project, Early Years Strategy, Health Promotion in Schools, Positive Behaviour Team, Children in Scotland

Key agencies and stakeholders • Parents• Children and Young People• AHP Children’s Services Action Group• Partnership Working Steering Group• I CAN, AFASIC, NDCS, DSS, CS• Initial Professional Educators (ITE/HEI)• NHS QIS, NHS Education Scotland • HMIe• LTS• Prof. bodies: RCSLT, COT, CSP• CAMHS

Scoping visits - Phase 1

• Identify existing best practice exemplars and explore factors leading to success

• Discuss challenges of partnership working and barriers/gaps

• Discuss possible supports to enable process, role of partnership project

• Complete Phase 1 with EAs and AHPs by April 2009

Scoping Visits - Phase 2

• Share key learning from Phase 1 via first draft of practice Guidelines with selected LA/AHPs

• Engage with parent groups, CYP, voluntary bodies, grant aided special schools

• Discuss content and format of practice Guidelines and CPD materials

• Complete by Nov 2009

Scoping Visits - Phase 3

• Share further draft practice Guidelines with service users and practitioners

• Amend in light of feedback• Publish practice Guidelines and CPD materials

April/May 2010• Engage in launch events• Evaluate project, devise self-evaluation template• Complete - June 2010

National GuidelinesKey Features of Partnership Working – Brief description with explanation

• Evidence (Literature, other sources)• Exemplification of best practice – links, tools/templates • Service user voices• Policy links• CPD materials

• Web based and accessible• Hard Copy

AHP and Education Partnership Working

Feature of Good Practice 1: Managers from education and AHP service meet regularly and frequently to discuss partnership working both at strategic and operational levels.

Feature of Good Practice 2:

Feature of Good Practice 3:

Features of Good Practice: Summary

Policy

Examples CPD Evidence Service

Users

Feature of Good Practice 2: Managers from education and AHP service meet regularly and frequently to discuss partnership working both at strategic and operational levels.

These meetings take place irrespective of whether there is a financial relationship. These meetings are prioritised and where staff cannot attend the meeting they proceed with representatives from the relevant service. This sometimes means that key decisions or discussion have to be deferred. A record of these meetings is taken and shared widely with teams. A frequency of about 4 times a year, or once a school term seems appropriate

Getting It Right For Every Child

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A Curriculum for Excellence

Feature of Good Practice 2: Managers from education and AHP service meet regularly and frequently to discuss partnership working both at strategic and operational levels.

Policy Examples CPD Evidence Service Users

Feature of Good Practice 2: Managers from education and AHP service meet regularly and frequently to discuss partnership working both at strategic and operational levels.

Policy Examples CPD Evidence

Service Users

McCartney 2002 Barrier to Collaboration

Law et al. (2008)

CIRCLE Project (2009)

Feature of Good Practice 2: Managers from education and AHP service meet regularly and frequently to discuss partnership working both at strategic and operational levels.

Policy Examples

CPD Evidence Service Users

Dumfries and Galloway Council – Talking Talk Project

Falkirk Council / NHS For the Valley – Service Level Agreements

Capability Scotland – Needs Analysis Tool

Feature of Good Practice 2: Managers from education and AHP service meet regularly and frequently to discuss partnership working both at strategic and operational levels.

Policy Examples CPD Evidence Service Users

Children and Young People

Video Clip of David who is a young person.

Parents

The ASL Forum in North Lanarkshire share their views about what can go wrong if professionals are not talking to each other.

Professionals

SLT Manager Jane and ASL Manager Joe discuss the journey they have taken in developing their links including a strategic meeting held every term.

Feature of Good Practice 2: Managers from education and AHP service meet regularly and frequently to discuss partnership working both at strategic and operational levels.

Policy Examples CPD Evidence Service Users

Exemplar Service Level Agreement

You can use this to help you to write your own SLA.

Who attends the meeting

A suggestion of attendees at strategic meetings when SLAs are discussed.

Mock agenda

An amalgam of a variety of agenda items to act as a suggestion of items for discussion at such a meeting.

What we have learned so far….

• High level of interest as relevant to practitioners

• Interest in how policy can be put into practice• Wish to link different policy agendas• Want to know what others are doing • Wish to share own practice solutions• Key emerging features of partnership working

Features of Good Practice1. Agreements between Educ. and AHPs,

structures for working together - including financial arrangements

2. Defined roles and responsibilities 3. Understanding range of AHP support

e.g universal - targeted - specialist4. AHP involved in planning – all levels,

and training /CPD5. Evaluation by service users

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• How can we fit the partnership working project and the learning from it regarding good practice into inspection/quality improvement/assurance processes?

• How can we apply the emerging features of best practice to all joint working collaborative contracts within children’s services?