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This site provides information for practitioners and the public about how we work together to plan and deliver services for children and young people in Dumfries and Galloway so that we can get it right for every child.
What is a Children’s Services Partnership?
Services like Education, Social Work and Health Visiting all have things that they need deliver as individual services. However, some children and young people are vulnerable, or might need extra help from services if they are to have good life-chances. For these children and young people to get the support they need, services need to work together.
Our Children’s Services Partnership involves senior managers from NHS Dumfries and Galloway; Dumfries and Galloway Council; the Police; Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway; and the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration.
They come together to identify shared priorities for services for children and young people across the entire partnership, with a focus on children and young people who need additional support. Our Children’s Services Plan sets out how we will achieve these priorities.
Our Children’s Services Plan
In Dumfries and Galloway our partnership is prioritising
- Early intervention – by identifying needs and providing support at the earliest opportunity.
- Improving outcomes for children and young people most in need of support.
- Meaningful engagement with, and involvement of children and young people.
To deliver these priorities, we have workstreams that are focusing on:
- How we support children and young people who are disabled and have complex care needs.
- How we look after our children and young people who are in care.
- How we support children and young people’s mental health.
- How we tackle child poverty in Dumfries and Galloway.
- How we provide early help and support to families.
You can find our Children’s Services Plan here. There is also a short video with British Sign Language interpretation and an Easy Read version.
How we work together
We have multi-agency planning groups who are each responsible for a workstream in our Children’s Services Plan.
Each planning group includes representatives from across our partnership.
The planning groups report to our partnership’s Executive Group whose role is to scrutinise progress and challenge the planning groups to demonstrate how well they are making a difference to children and families.
