Getting it Right For Every Child (GIRFEC) reflects East Renfrewshire Council’s key local outcomes:
- All children in East Renfrewshire experience a stable and secure start to their lives and are supported to succeed.
- East Renfrewshire residents are fit and active and have the skills for learning, life and work.
The Education Department has as its vision ‘ Everyone Attaining, Everyone Achieving through Excellent Experiences’ and is committed to delivering the best possible outcomes for its children and young people, ensuring they have developed the skills they need for learning, life and work. It is everyone’s responsibility to ensure that East Renfrewshire’s children and young people are safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible and included. This will enable them to be a successful learner, a confident individual, a responsible citizen and an effective contributor.
The GIRFEC approach is based on solid foundations. There are ten core components and a set of values and principles which bring meaning and relevance at a practice level to single agency and multi-agency working across the whole of children’s services.
The GIRFEC approach is about how practitioners across all services for children and adults meet the needs of children and young people, working together where necessary to ensure they reach their potential. It promotes a shared approach and accountability that:
- builds solutions with and around children, young people and families
- enables children and young people to get the help they need when they need it
- supports a positive shift in culture, systems and practice
- involves working better together to improve the life chances for children, young people and families
For further information on the underpinning principles, click the link below:
