Local Launch

Scottish Government guidance on partnership working between allied

health professions and education

Why develop guidance?What has informed it’s content?

Who is it for?What is in it?

How can we use it?

Why develop guidance on partnership working?

• Children’s policy agenda– Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC)– Additional Support for Learning legislation and

Code of Practice– Curriculum for Excellence– Early Years Framework– Equally Well– Better Health Better Care - NHS– Building on Success - AHPs

What has informed it’s content?

Informed by• Views of stakeholders• Current practice• Literature review• Consultation process• Policy work streams• Steering Group

Who is it for?

• Allied health professionals – SLT, OT and PT and others

• Education staff – all teachers, assistants, EPs, EOs• Parents and carers• All organisations working to support CYP – voluntary

agencies, charitable bodies, parent groups, disability and diagnosis-specific groups

• Children and young people – improved outcomes of collaborative advantage

• All those working in partnerships

What is in it? Contents• Contents• Ministerial Foreword• Summary of key issues• How to use this document• Partnership working: impact and outcomes for

children and young people• Features of good practice – policy link, description,

exemplars, what you said, issues to consider, signposts for improvement

• Leadership• Appendices

What is in it? Features of good practice

– Different ways of providing support – roles

– Parents as partners

– Planning for better partnership working

– Planning and working together to support CYP

– Joint continuing professional development and self-evaluation for improvement

What is in it? Appendices

• List of Allied Health Professions• Summary of engagement process• Tools for self-evaluation and improvement planning• Legislative and policy summary• Allied Health Professions Practice Matrix• Membership of Steering Group

How can we use it?

• A tool for self–evaluation and service improvement • Content – features of good practice with practice

exemplars, issues to consider and signposts for improvement

• Grids - Appendix 3 - template– issues to consider and signposts for improvement– evidence - strengths– evidence - areas for development– actions

How can we use it?Website

• http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Education/Schools/welfare/partnershipworking

• Structure reflecting printed guidance – key messages• Practice exemplars - from across Scotland• Literature review – evidence base behind practice• Quotes – what you said• Links – to relevant web resources• Professional development resources – CPD/film

How can you support the guidance?

• What can you do in your practice/locality to implement this guidance?

• How can you take this opportunity to improve and develop your own practice with your partners?

• Check out how this guidance relates to your own experience and practice and supports you in achieving collaborative advantage.

• Check out the website for practice examples from across Scotland illustrating the key messages in the guidance.

• Read the literature base, hear what stakeholders told us, try the links to related websites and use the CPD resources.

Thank you for supporting the launch of

Guidance on partnership working between allied health professions and education

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/05/27095736

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Education/Schools/welfare/partnershipworking

Guidance available from Scottish Government Support for Learning Learning Directorate Victoria Quay EH6 6QQ tel. 0131 244 4914