Integrated Children’s Service Planning Board
About the Integrated Children’s Service Planning Board
The Integrated Children’s Service Planning Board and the Highland Children’s Service Plan itself sits within the structure of the HCPP. The Board leads the improvement of outcomes for all Highland’s Children and Families.
The Integrated Children’s Service Planning Board launched the new Highland Children’s Service Plan in August 2023. The Plan has been developed in collaboration with public sector bodies and third sector organisations see Governance membership here and is informed by both the voice and testimony of children, young people and families and the needs of our communities as articulated through the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (2023).
A copy of the Highland Children’s Service Plan 2023 – 2026 can be downloaded here.
The Plan articulates how partners work together to provide services which are organised, equipped to deliver high quality, joined-up, trauma-informed, responsive, and preventative support to children and families.
In order to deliver on our commitments and planning for Highland families, a number of strategic oversight boards and committees will be accountable for delivery of the priorities and plans using the life course approach. These are:
- Highland’s Poverty Group
- Highland’s Child Protection Committee
- The Promise Board (Corporate Parenting)
- Highland’s Rights and Participation Group
- Highland’s Health and Wellbeing Board – including mental health.
- Highland Alcohol and Drug Partnership Group
Children & Young People’s Participation Strategy
Highland now has a CYP Participation Strategy and a Children’s Rights and Participation website.
The strategy, built on the input from over 800 children and young people from all parts of Highland, sets out our commitment to ensuring that children and young people’s views and voices are meaningfully included in decision making across Highland. Please share the link below widely with children, young people and adults in your network.
The new Children’s Rights and Participation Website is an important part of implementing the strategy. It will provide information and resources to support good practice in CYP participation, as well as bringing together insights from consultations, surveys and other types of engagement activity with children and young people. The website will also serve to update children and young people about what has been done (or not) on the issues they have raised and to keep them informed about how well we’re doing (or not) in implementing the strategy and its ambition of making meaningful participation a reality for all children and young people aged 0 – 26 in Highland.
Whole Family Wellbeing Programme
The Whole Family Wellbeing Programme sits within the structure of the Integrated Children’s Service Planning Board and ultimately to the HCPP Board. Lead by a Programme Manager and six Locality Co-ordinators, implementation of the programme aims to provide holistic whole family support, readily available across Highland to families that need it. With the National Principles of Holistic Whole Family Support (‘the National Principles’) embedded into the planning, commissioning and delivery of services provided to support children and families. These principles are integrated into the Children’s Services Plans (2023 -2026). The principles will be used to deliver high quality, preventive, holistic whole family support through their services for children and families.
Annual Reports
To view the Highland Integrated Children Services plan annual reports click on the links below: