I’ve been invited speak at what is described as an interactive seminar entitled Measuring Outcomes for Children’s Services in Scotland - (I’m a late replacement so my name doesn’t appear in the programme)

The blurb reads as follows:

This seminar addresses the key issues facing performance management within children’s services including:

• Making the transition from measuring services on outputs   to outcomes
• Preparing for joint inspections
• Measuring outcomes across partnerships with the new focus  on integrated working
• Providing evidence on ‘soft outcomes’
• Building the capacity, skills and knowledge of your staff   to carry out outcomes based planning and reporting

My brief is as follows:

• Moving to Outcome Based Assessed Children’s Services
• Understanding the Government’s purpose, strategic objectives, national outcomes, national indicators, and their implications for children’s services and delivery partners
• Identifying the key issues for children, young people and families and uses of social care within the National Performance Framework
•  SOAs and the impact on planning, delivering and evaluating an outcome based approach in children’s services