What does Girfec say about play?
Maynard O'Conner
2025-07-24 00:39:25
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GIRFEC provides Scotland with a consistent framework and shared language for promoting, supporting, and safeguarding the wellbeing of children and young people.
It is locally embedded and positively embraced by organisations, services and practitioners across Children’s Services Planning Partnerships, with a focus on changing culture, systems and practice for the benefit of babies, infants, children, young people and their families.
GIRFEC bases its principles and values on children's rights and promotes eight wellbeing indicators to describe how a child or young person is doing at a point in time.
GIRFEC supports practitioners to consider ways to improve the wellbeing for a child or young person through the National Practice Model.
Messages from pathfinders and learning partners told us that GIRFEC provided greater clarity about who families could go to when they needed help, reduced time in meetings for professionals and parents, children and young people, agencies and third sector partners were able to focus resources on those children who needed most support, support provided earlier, and fewer children required compulsory state intervention.
GIRFEC will improve how support is planned, delivered and co-ordinated for children who require extra support by making a child’s plan available.
Our ambition is to work together with children, young people, families, organisations and communities to make Scotland the best place to grow up.
We want all children and young people to live in an equal society that enables them to flourish, to be treated with kindness, dignity and respect, and to have their rights upheld at all times.
Clotilde Considine
2025-07-24 00:06:00
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It gives them the potential to grow up ready to succeed and play their part in society. Taking care of our children’s well-being and making sure they are alright, even before they are born, helps us ensure the most positive outcomes for them later in life. Getting it right for every child is a way of working consistently and supportively with all Scotland’s children, young people, and their families and acting quickly if they need help. It has been designed to thread through all services and areas that involve children and young people of any age.
Victor Sporer
2025-07-23 20:28:34
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Active – having opportunities to take part in activities such as play, recreation and sport, which contribute to healthy growth and development, at home, in school and in the community.
This includes freedom to have such opportunities as part of a rights-based, strengths-based, holistic approach.
Practitioners and organisations should consider each of the eight wellbeing indicators in collaboration, with children, young people and their family.
The eight indicators can be interconnected and overlapping, and when considered together, they give a holistic view of each child or young person.
Having opportunities to take part in activities such as play, is part of the Active indicator.
In practice the approach should be adaptable enough to take account of stage of development and the complexity of each child or young person’s individual life circumstances.
The approach to considering children’s wellbeing should be rights-based, strengths-based, holistic and adaptable enough to take account of stage of development and the complexity of each child or young person’s individual life circumstances.
The eight wellbeing indicators include Active, which involves play.
Using the GIRFEC principles, includes considering having opportunities to take part in activities such as play.
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