CHS Corporate Parenting activities
Our Strategic Outlook 2024-2027 has three key themes:
Delivering Positive Outcomes, Valuing Our People, and Driving Transformation.
At Children’s Hearings Scotland (CHS), we are very proud to be Corporate Parents. CHS, the National Convener (Elliot) and the nine Area Support Teams are all Corporate Parents. However, the Children’s Panel Members who you meet in a Children’s Hearing are not Corporate Parents.
We have decided to include our Corporate Parenting activities into our four year Strategic Outlook 2024-2027 which you can view here.
1. Delivering Positive Outcomes
We will ensure our Panel Community can make informed decisions for everyone. This is via offering a full learning package, supporting our community in important learning areas including trauma-informed practice and relational working.
We will integrate organisation-wide quality assurance for data-driven improvement. When we do so, we will share feedback with Panel Members on performance and the impact of decisions made.
Individuals with lived experience will influence our strategic direction and decision-making. We will uphold and promote children’s rights in everything we do.
2. Valuing Our People
We will recruit and retain exceptional colleagues and volunteers. The voices and contributions of our people will shape everything CHS do.
Policies and practice within CHS will support the physical, emotional and mental wellbeing of colleagues and volunteers. Our culture and working environment will be diverse, inclusive and caring with wellbeing a central everyday focus.
Compassionate leadership will be demonstrated within and outwith the hearing room. Colleagues and volunteers will be supported to enhance their skills, knowledge and expertise, and to put learning into practice.
3. Driving Transformation
We will lead in influencing current and future policy to improve the hearings system. Our colleagues and volunteers will be empowered to try new things to deliver better outcomes for infants, children and young people.
Decisions will be driven by data and delivered. Data gathered will tell compelling stories, demonstrating what we do.
Strategic partners across Scotland will play a central role in our ‘digital-first’ approach. Our digital infrastructure will be efficient and will drive continuous improvement within the hearings system.