National Practice Model
National Practice Model
The National Practice Model provides a common approach across all local authorities in Scotland for all agencies who have a role in supporting, promoting and safeguarding the wellbeing of children and young people.
It provides a framework for practitioners to structure and analyse information in a consistent way to help and understand an individual child and family’s needs, strengths and barriers.
"This will allow a shared understanding of a child or young person’s needs and identify wellbeing concerns that need to be addressed."
The framework can be used by professionals across all agencies whether in a single or multi-agency context. The model also promotes the involvement of children and families in the decision making processes.
National Guidance Getting it right for every child – Practice Guidance 1 – Using the National Practice Model – 2022
Wellbeing Indicators
The wellbeing indicators should be used to structure the recording of routine information about a child or young person, under whichever headings are appropriate, to record their progress in universal services.
"The eight indicators in the wellbeing wheel are areas in which children and young people need to progress in order to do well now and in the future."
They allow practitioners to structure information (which may identify needs and concerns), and to plan. They are used to record observations, events and concerns, and when putting together a Child's Plan.
In some cases, recording progress using the wellbeing indicators will allow practitioners to identify concerns that only become apparent from cumulative information or collated single-agency or multi-agency records.
The wellbeing indicators should also be used when a plan is being constructed or reviewed, to summarise the child or young person's needs.
Wellbeing Concerns
The wellbeing indicators can also be used to structure recording of a specific concern that may be raised with or by practitioners, that may need further assessment or action, for example, not doing as well in school as expected. A concern can be an event itself, or a series of events, or attributes, which affect the wellbeing or potential wellbeing of a child or young person e.g. missing appointments for health checks; living in a family where a parent may be misusing drugs or alcohol. Parents, children and young people themselves may have concerns that they bring to the attention of practitioners.
The Five Practitioners’ Questions should be routinely considered by everyone who has a role in supporting the wellbeing of all children and young people:
What is getting in the way of this child or young person's wellbeing?
Do I have all the information I need to help this child or young person?
What can I do now to help this child or young person?
What can my agency do to help this child or young person?
What additional help, if any, may be needed from others?
"By responding to these questions, professionals can be confident that they are taking appropriate steps and actions to find a solution to a wellbeing concern."
My World Triangle
My World Triangle provides a common framework to understand a child or young person’s whole world by focusing on the three dimensions of a child or young person’s life: the child themselves, their family, and their wider world.
It allows a holistic picture of the child to be understood in terms of strengths and pressures to identify the most appropriate response.
See section 8 - Getting it right for every child – Practice Guidance 1 – Using the National Practice Model – 2022
SHANARRI+-+Expanded+my+world+triangle+-+How+I+grow+and+develop.pdfHow I grow and develop
SHANARRI+-+Expanded+my+world+triangle+-+My+wider+world (1).pdfMy wider world
SHANARRI+-+Expanded+my+world+triangle+-+What+I+need.pdfWhat I need from the people who look after me
My World Triangle Resource for Younger Children
My-world-triangle-2.pdf
Resilience Matrix
The Resilience Matrix is a tool that can support the practitioner in considering the strengths and challenges for a child or young person identified from gathering information using the My World Triangle.
Along with any specialist assessments, the information gathered within the four headings of resilience, vulnerability, protective environment and adversity should allow a robust assessment to be drawn together. It is particularly helpful in complex cases where significant volumes of information needs to be considered.
See section 9 and 10 for further information Getting it right for every child – Practice Guidance 1 – Using the National Practice Model – 2022