CS SIP 2425 Outturn Report ECSPB
Renfrewshire Council · 15 May 2025
Back to Education and Children's Services Policy Board — 15 May 2025 and its agenda
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1 ___________________________________________________________________ To: Education and Children’s Services Policy Board On: 15 May 2025 ___________________________________________________________________ Report by: Director of Children’s Services ___________________________________________________________________ Heading: Children’s Services Service Improvement Plan 2024/25 Outturn Report ___________________________________________________________________ 1. Summary 1.1. The purpose of this report is to provide an update on performance of Children’s Services for the twelve-month period covering 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 in relation to the Service Improvement Plan approved by this Board on 23 May 2024. 1.2. The plan aligns with the Council Plan and Community Plan and provides the strategic direction for the service. Children’s Services is an active partner in developing and delivering the outcomes contained within both the Renfrewshire Children’s Services Partnership Plan and the Renfrewshire Community Justice Outcomes Improvement Plan. 1.3. Children’s Services has delivered on its priorities over the last twelve months and service updates and key achievements are highlighted in Section 4 of this report. __________________________________________________________________ 2. Recommendations 2.1. It is recommended that the Education and Children’s Services Policy Board note: a) the contents of this report; and b) the achievements of Children’s Services during 2024/25. ___________________________________________________________________
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2 3. Background 3.1. Children’s Services is responsible for the delivery of social work services to children and families, justice social work services, and early years, primary and secondary education. Much of what the service does is statutory; that is, there is a legal requirement for the Council to deliver. Service delivery is a mix of universal provision (such as education), targeted provision (such as children’s houses for accommodated children and young people) and specialist support (for example, justice social work court services). 3.2. Our approach is strongly focused on prevention, early intervention and providing additional support for the most vulnerable. Whilst children’s health services sit within Renfrewshire’s Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP), a key priority of both organisations is the continuation of effective integrated working to improve outcomes for children and young people. 3.3. The Service Improvement Plan is a comprehensive statement of the outcomes the service aims to achieve, and the actions it will take to achieve these. It fits within the wider planning framework of the Council by taking account of Community Planning themes and Council priorities. It enables elected members to have oversight of developments within the service and to consider and develop policy options which reflect customer need and resource availability. 3.4. Appendix I details the service’s achievements in the past 12 months as we continue to support the Council’s priorities and help deliver improved outcomes for Renfrewshire’s children, young people, and families. ___________________________________________________________________ 4. Service Update and Key Achievements 4.1. Renfrewshire has performed well in the face of external inspections. The Care Inspectorate’s Children at Risk of Harm Inspection identified major strengths in Renfrewshire, with an overall grade of “very good”, while the National Thematic Inspection highlighted three areas of good practice in Renfrewshire. During the 2024/25 school term three establishments have been inspected by Education Scotland and graded good or above, including an excellent grading for one of our primary schools. Children’s Services both celebrate the key strengths identified at inspection, and recognise the areas for further improvement, providing support to the schools in their improvement journey. 4.2. The re-design of social work services continued throughout 2024/25, with an aim to improve the capability and capacity within the service to drive change forward. The re-design, which has incorporated Families First, Home Link and Care Experienced Home Link into the Renfrewshire Family Wellbeing Service,
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3 has streamlined the way that family support is accessed and provided to ensure consistency and equity across localities. 4.3. Progress continues to be made to develop Renfrewshire’s approach to early and effective whole family support measures. The aim of the Family Wellbeing approach is to provide appropriate family supports focussing on early intervention, and providing opportunities for children, young people, parents, and carers to shape the services that impact them. Local insight has presented a strong case that children and young people’s needs are best understood and met within the context of their families. 4.4. Through the Scottish Government’s Whole Family Wellbeing Fund, Children’s Services is engaging with partners to develop collaborative proposals to address the needs of Renfrewshire’s families in a way that is non-stigmatising, community-based, and underpinned by children’s rights. There is recognition of the benefit to have services linked and access to support being in one place. Positive learning from the successful implementation of the REN10 mental health and wellbeing family support service is also being applied to the whole family wellbeing approach. The Whole Family Wellbeing Service has seen a rise in the average family wellbeing score across all measures while the Education Advisor to CAMHS has directly supported over 900 children and families across all Renfrewshire schools 4.5. Opportunities to incorporate The Promise in service planning and delivery is being facilitated though the active and growing Promise Keeper network. There are currently 362 Promise Keepers in place across the local authority – both staff and elected members – the HSCP, and partner agencies. This network ensures recognition is given to the needs and voices of individuals with care experience. 4.6. Attainment in Broad General Education has improved across almost all measures since 2022/23, with all measures in primary in line with or ahead of pre-pandemic levels. Attainment in S3 has increased rapidly at fourth level. Performance in the Senior Phase is consistent with national trends, reflecting changing assessment methods over time. The percentage of leavers entering a positive destination is 97.1% with an increased proportion of care- experienced school leavers participating in employment, training or education. The proportion of quintile 1 leavers in a positive destination is 94.7% which reflects an increase from the previous year and is ahead of the virtual comparator. Renfrewshire now has the 5th highest leaver destination figure in Scotland. 4.7. We continue to pledge that when children are accommodated by the council, we will place brothers and sisters together where it is appropriate to do so. We have returned young people to Renfrewshire via the Close to Home initiative.
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4 The majority of all looked after children continue to live in a community setting either with their own family or with an alternative family. ___________________________________________________________________ 5. Progress against Performance Measures 5.1. Children’s Service’s performance indicators which fall under the remit of this policy board are detailed in Appendix I of this report. Of these, 14 are collected quarterly over a fiscal year (1 April to 31 March) and 20 are annual indicators measured over an academic year (1 August to 31 July). 5.2. Renfrewshire continues to perform well against its comparators across the majority of attainment measures. While we have not seen significant improvement from the previous leavers cohort this is replicated in national trends suggesting this largely due to result inflation during and following the Covid-19 pandemic. However, we recognise the scope for further improvement, particularly in relation to reducing the poverty related attainment gap. We will continue to make this a priority as we strive for even further improvement. 5.3. The number of young people entering a positive destination after leaving school has maintained strong performance with approximately 97% of the 2024 leavers cohort entering a positive destination. There has been significant downward pressure on attainment measures due to the inclusion of alternative certification in 2020 and 2021 and a gradual return to normal exam diets since that point. This has been further compounded by an increase in pupils leaving school at an earlier stage, thus having less opportunity to gain qualifications. The percentage of school leavers attaining literacy at SCQF Level 4 has marginally decreased from 96% to 94% in the previous year. This figure remains above national which also saw a decrease over the same period. The proportion of leavers attaining SCQF Level 4 in numeracy has remained at 93%, ahead of the national figure by 2 percentage points. By comparison, there has been a drop of 2 percentage-points in the proportion of school leavers achieving literacy at SCQF Level 5, while the proportion gaining numeracy at SCQF Level 5 has increased from 75% to 76%. Both of these year-on-year changes are consistent with national data. 5.4. The service has continued to exceed its target for ensuring that children looked after by the Council are cared for in a community setting, with 91.6% of children cared for in this way at the end of the reporting period. On occasion, the needs of children and young people might require them to be placed in other settings better aligned to their current needs. 5.5. The percentage of Stage 1 complaints responded to within timescales agreed with customers has exceeded the target of 95%, with all complaints during the reporting period met within the agreed timescale with customers in each
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5 quarter of 2024/25. This highlights the efforts of the service to improve performance in this area. 5.6. The percentage of Stage 2 complaints responded to within timescales agreed with customers has shown considerable improvement compared to Q4 of 2023/24 where 91% of complaints were responded to within timescale. The Q4 2024/25 figure shows 97% of complaints were responded to within timescale. 5.7. In all cases, the service will always focus on responding to complaints comprehensively. On occasion this may require staff to liaise closely with the complainant to fully understand the scope of the issue and thereafter identify all pertinent information. Complainants are always kept fully informed of timescales and anything that might impact them, for example managing responses that will be impacted by school holidays. ___________________________________________________________________ 6. Areas requiring improvement and/or review 6.1. Some of our Justice Social Work indicators remain below the target, such as the percentage of new clients subject to a new supervision order receiving an induction within 5 working days of the order commencing. However, there has been a long-term improvement in the proportion of individuals meeting this requirement. 6.2. We have an ambitious target to ensure that no care leaver finds themselves with any periods of homelessness in the last 6 months; while this has remained low, we have not yet met the target. 6.3. The percentage point gap in the average tariff score has increased year-to- year since the pandemic when comparing school leavers living in 30% most deprived areas and those living in 70% least deprived areas (SIMD). The alternative certification model led to a significant decrease in the attainment gap which has returned to pre-pandemic levels as the transition to exam diets has occurred. This is reflected in national data. Similarly, the average tariff score for care experienced school leavers has now returned to pre-pandemic levels. Attainment within these groups continues to be an area of priority. 6.4. The percentage of young people choosing to stay onto S6 in the 2024/25 school term illustrates a long-term decrease in the proportion of pupils staying on to their final year of secondary school. This may be due to increased provision of alternative pathways for pupils out with school. While historically pupils leaving school earlier were less likely to achieve a positive destination, the latest data indicates that this is not the case. 98% of S4 leavers in 2024 went into a positive destination compared with only 78% in 2018.
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6 6.5. Although the number of Foundation Apprenticeships accessed by Renfrewshire school pupils remains low this can be attributed to our school curriculum now offering a wide range of new courses that creates additional opportunities for young people to access vocational opportunities. We will continue to work with West College Scotland to provide attractive offers for our young people to achieve positive leavers destinations. 6.6. During school inspections, pupils are asked if they are satisfied with their learning environment through an Education Scotland Survey. We have an ambitious target of 100% that we have fallen short of; however, this is based on one question from an extensive survey distributed to schools and early learning centres and inspections are very positive overall. 6.7. The service is receiving more FOI requests each quarter, which has meant that the percentage of FOI requests completed within timescale by Children's Services has failed to meet the target, resulting in a decrease in performance here. ___________________________________________________________________ 7. Monitoring progress 7.1 We will apply our robust approach to quality improvement across our portfolios to ensure our practice and provision is driven by the experience of our service users. Established processes are in place to ensure our service priorities are underpinned by appropriate and accessible policy guidance, practice standards and training/development opportunities. Data and insight aligned to our outcomes will undergo thorough analysis and evaluation, with outputs shaping how we adapt, respond and best effect improvement over time. 7.2 Progress on the implementation of the Service Improvement Plan is monitored by the Extended Senior Leadership Team every quarter and will be reported to the Education and Children’s Services Policy Board on a six-monthly basis. ___________________________________________________________________ Implications of the Report 1. Financial – The Service Improvement Plan highlights resourcing pressures arising from increasing demand for services and the current financial environment. 2. HR & Organisational Development – None. 3. Community/Council Planning – The report details a range of activities which reflect local council and community planning themes. 4. Legal – None. 5. Property/Assets – None.
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7 6. Information Technology – Service developments relating to information technology are key enablers of service improvement and modernisation and support service-level and corporate objectives. 7. Equality & Human Rights – The recommendations contained within this report have been assessed in relation to their impact on equalities and human rights. No negative impacts on equality groups or potential for infringement of individuals’ human rights have been identified, arising from the recommendations contained in the report. If required following implementation, the actual impact of the recommendations and the mitigating actions will be reviewed and monitored, and the results of the assessment will be published on the Council’s website. 8. Health & Safety – None. 9. Procurement – None. 10. Risk – Risks related to the delivery and management of services are regularly monitored and included in Renfrewshire Council’s Corporate and Strategic Risk Registers. 11. Privacy Impact – None. 12. COSLA Policy Position – None. 13. Climate change – Actions and performance indicators aligned to Strategic Priority 4: Green, of Renfrewshire’s Council Plan, highlights activities across the Council to tackle climate change. __________________________________________________________________ List of Background Papers: (a) Service Improvement Plan 2024 - 2027 ___________________________________________________________________ Author: Alasdair Mann, Senior Policy Officer Contact: Yvonne Farquhar, Policy Manager (People) Appendix I: Children’s Services Service Improvement Plan 2024/25 Outturn Report ___________________________________________________________________
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Children’s Services Service Improvement Plan 2024 –27 2024/25 Outturn Report
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Welcome to our end of year report • This update reflects the performance of Children’s Services across the 2024/25 period, highlighting areas where we have made progress and some areas we want to focus on more in future, perhaps because performance isn’t moving in the direction we anticipated or because of other pressures or factors that makes this even more of a priority for us. • The following pages shine a spotlight on some great projects or practice and highlight areas where we want to improve or develop further. At a service level, there is a stronger focus on the Strategic Outcomes of the Council Plan that are closely aligned with Children’s Services. Towards the end of this document, you will find a full update against all the actions and performance indicators we use to measure progress. • Through our Service Improvement Plan, we report on 34 performance indicators, 20 which are reported annually and 14 reported quarterly. Some annual indicators are based on data that is one- year behind, owing to having no more recent comparable information. This will be updated as comprehensive data becomes available through subsequent data collections.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan Economy: Newly qualified teachers continue to be supported, while a supply teacher booker system has been implemented this term. In conjunction with the Council’s facilities management service a traineeship programme has been set up aimed at winter school leavers, with the support from a Principal Teacher. A significant proportion of care experienced school pupils have taken part in the ‘Career Ready’ coaching programme. Green: Ongoing collaboration with industry leading organisations such as Carbon Futures Trust and other local authorities across Scotland. Living our Values: A young leaders programme has been developed, and more than half of our establishments are now engaging in work relating to promoting the pupil voice.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Place: Working together to enhance wellbeing across communities Construction has begun on the Paisley Grammar School Community Campus and remains on track to welcome pupils in 2026. Planning has commenced on the other major projects to enhance and expand the current learning estate. Wi-Fi installation has been completed across our learning estate, while an upgrade will continue throughout 2025. Work has progressed on updating Renfrewshire’s Equally Safe Strategy, and ‘Equally Safe at School’ awareness sessions have taken place with senior leaders in secondary schools. We have started to implement the priority actions from the National Strategy with our Community Justice partners.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Fair: Nurturing bright, happy and healthy futures for all Achievements • Our Family Wellbeing Service has supported over 600 families following its successful launch in November 2024. • Following the re-design of our Social Work services, the whole service children and families social work teams were launched in November 2024. A dedicated team has been established to support Kinship Carers in the area. • “Keeping The Promise in Renfrewshire” was published highlighting selected activity around the first 5 years of Renfrewshire’s approach to #KeepThePromise. • Our Promise Keeper Network has expanded to more than 300 members and is receiving local and national interest. • The support and resources which are demonstrating the biggest impact on children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Areas for improvement and development • The percentage point gap between the attainment in both literacy and numeracy of pupils living in the most and least deprived areas has increased. • School attendance rates in both primary and secondary remain behind targets. • Senior phase stay-on rates have fallen further behind targets. 97% of our school leavers are in positive destinations Attainment gap in numeracy decreased between pupils eligible for free school meals based on their SIMD decile More care leavers entering employment, education or training courses Low number of care leavers presenting as homeless in the past 6 months
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Service Improvement Plan: Actions
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Performance Key ACTION STATUS OVERDUE 1 CHECK PROGRESS 0 IN PROGRESS 14 COMPLETED 10
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Place What we will do Due Date Status Progress update Progress development work in relation to the priority schools identified in the School Estate Management Plan - Paisley Grammar School Community Campus 31-Aug-2026 Paisley Grammar School continues to progress in construction and remains on track for 2026 delivery. Focus of project is beginning to shift towards fit out, transition planning, and digital. Workstreams are underway. Progress development work in relation to the priority schools identified in the School Estate Management Plan - Thorn Primary School 31-Mar-2026 Decision made at March 2025 Policy Board to pause the delivery of a like-for-like Thorn Primary School and undertake an options appraisal to widen the scope of this project. Undertake an evaluation of the roll out of full Wi-Fi across the school estate 31-Mar-2027 Schools have commented and evaluated the Wi-Fi is now in 100% of desired areas and is working well. The switch upgrade is ongoing, and devices need to continue to be refreshed to make full use of the Wi-Fi. Implement the priority actions from the National Strategy for Community Justice with our Community Justice partners. 31-Mar-2027 Efforts are underway to capture and analyse how early measures are being used by justice partners and the extent to which they are achieving successful completions. This analysis will inform future assurance activities, indicating necessary actions to ensure that information provided to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) and sheriffs is consistent, high-quality, and supports sound decision-making. We have applied insights from our recent work on the Prisoners (Early Release) (Scotland) Act 2025 to establish pre-release coordination meetings. These meetings aim to better support individuals leaving custody after short-term sentences. This collaborative approach enhances information sharing and decision-making, enabling services to effectively plan around the needs of each person.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Place What we will do Due Date Status Progress update Refresh Renfrewshire’s Equally Safe Strategy 31-Dec-2024 Background work has been completed and decision made by group to look at a ‘plan on a page’ with Action Plan as live working document to sit behind this. Work has begun on the Action Plan, however this requires further commitment of partners, with a view to this being finalised at next the Equally Safe meeting on 5th June. Continue to implement ‘Equally Safe at School’ policy 31-Mar-2027 In line with the ADES commitments, information was shared with secondary schools regarding our commitment at school level around prevention of gender-based violence. To support this, a face-to-face session with the Equally Safe at School (ESAS) team from Rape Crisis Scotland was delivered on 17th March. A senior leader and/or MVP lead from every secondary school and one ASN school participated. Participants were given information regarding the content and practicalities of the programme and use of the online dashboard. This will support school improvement planning going forward. All secondary schools and Mary Russell are now signed up for the programme ensuring we are way ahead of the national expectation that this be overtaken by Spring 2026. The Development Officer (DO) for Health & Wellbeing will support schools in developing a plan for school session 2025/26 in line with local authority expectations. Education Scotland’s ‘Train the Trainer’ training was provided for Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) trainers for primary schools in February and March 2025. The DO and 3 others from Youth Services and the Family Wellbeing Service completed the training. Training for primary school staff is now being offered in May. Due to the strength of MVP across Renfrewshire schools, and as part of our Young and Equally Safe in Renfrewshire project, we were asked by Education Scotland to host a schools’ event in June. The event’s main speaker will be Jackson Katz, co- founder of MVP, who is visiting from America. The event will also celebrate the work of mentors across Scottish schools. This will take place on 3rd June in Paisley Town Hall. All schools are required to record incidences of gender-based violence on SEEMiS (Bullying and Equalities module) to enable monitoring and reporting of incidents over time.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Economy What we will do Due Date Status Progress update Working in partnership with Skills Development Scotland, West College Scotland, Invest in Renfrewshire and Developing the Young Workforce West, we will ensure planned robust approaches to supporting our most vulnerable learners into positive destinations 31- Mar- 2025 School Leaver Follow-Up destination figure for 2024 summer leavers is 97.1%. This is an increase of 0.6% from last session and includes a rise in the figure for Quintile 1 leavers to 95% which is a 2% increase. Future Paisley event attended by 12 secondary schools in February and March 2025. There was a focus on the regeneration in Renfrewshire and awareness raising of UWS and opportunities for leavers. In February 2025, 55 girls from Renfrewshire Secondary Schools participated in Barclays ‘B in Tech’ event. A School Leaver Follow-Up Practitioners Network Event took place on 26th February. Representatives from Education, Skills Development Scotland & Invest In Renfrewshire met to discuss planning processes and share practice. Local Employability Partnership Assessment Panel collegiate planning decisions in February 2025 ensuring high quality commissioned programmes are in place for session 2024/25 leavers. During Scottish Apprenticeship Week (3rd to 7th March), 12 young people accessed opportunities to work shadow apprentices in partnership with local employers. A ‘Career Ready’ celebration took place on 6th March at Park Mains High School for Renfrewshire’s first cohort of successful ‘Career Ready’ graduates. Contribute to the Council’s Workforce Plan and Strategic Recruitment and Talent Management Plan to enable us to meet workforce demands particularly in relation to Teaching and Social Work. 31- Mar- 2027 Robust support continues to be provided to newly qualified teachers (NQT) to support retention and workforce demand. Supply teacher booker system to be implemented in March 2025.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair What we will do Due Date Status Progress update Where it is safe and appropriate to do so, families in need of support will be diverted away from social work and offered assessment and time-limited intervention from Barnardo’s. 31-Dec-2024 Barnardo’s Early Help is fully embedded in the Initial Response Team which went live on 4th November 2024. Implementation of the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy that clearly articulates the vision for planning and delivering high quality learning, teaching and assessment 31-Mar-2027 ‘The Renfrewshire Way’, this guidance has now been launched at the Equity Conference which took place on 30 April and was well received. This will be implemented session 2025/26 by all practitioners across all sectors. Raise attainment and skills for learning, life, and work to enhance opportunities and choices for all our children and young people 31-Mar-2027 Target schools continue to support identified groups of learners. Baseline assessments have been completed and all interventions are now in place. Evaluations are being gathered to evaluate the impact of this work. Establish a dedicated team to support kinship carers in Renfrewshire 31-Dec-2024 The dedicated team is established as of 4th November 2024, developing new processes and arrangements to take forward bespoke support to Kinship carers and the function of assessments to the approval stage. The children of Kinship carers have been transferred to the children and families teams allocated social workers where required.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair What we will do Due Date Status Progress update Introduce a new role of Independent Decision Maker within the Social Work Service. 30-Sep-2024 The Independent Decision Maker (IDM) function commenced in September 2024 with an initial focus on Child Protection cases and prioritised Looked After Reviews. Three IDMs were recruited with a further two posts advertised by mid-September. Establish a whole service Social Work duty team with responsibility for all new requests for assistance. 31-Oct-2024 The Front Door Initial Response Team is due to launch on 4th November. Managers and staff have been identified and Standard Operating Procedures are being finalised. Introduce whole service teams for cases which require medium- and longer-term allocation for Social Work support. 31-Oct-2024 The whole service children and families social work teams were launched on the 4th November 2024. Senior managers, team managers, social workers and case holding staff are in place.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair What we will do Due Date Status Progress update Build local capacity for transformational whole systems change and to scale up and drive the delivery of holistic whole family support services (CF) 31-Mar-2025 FORT data shows that 636 families have been supported through the community family wellbeing service since recording on this system began. Funded third sector organisations now using FORT to make referrals and record wellbeing information. Three successful family wellbeing launch events in November 2024 reached 559 children and families. Third sector evaluations now underway and outcomes will inform funding for 2025/26. 1086 families to date have been supported by the community family wellbeing team and funded third sector partner organisations. 62% of families supported are from SIMD 1-5 Outcomes recorded include: - Improved parental understanding of the need of child, including healthy attachment - Improved sleep routine - Improved parental understanding of the needs of unborn child - Improved participation in community facilities and universal services - Improvement in parenting, family functioning, relationships and reduction in child’s distressed behaviour Following a successful system proof of concept, a procurement exercise is currently underway to secure a client record system for Whole Family Wellbeing ( including partner third sector organisations) ; community learning and development and educational psychology service Following evaluation of partner third sector organisations, year 4 funding will be awarded to allow continuation and development of family support work already underway, with a key focus on partnership working for added impact. Currently exploring more joined up working with connected communities.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair What we will do Due Date Status Progress update The Promise Strategic Oversight Board and workstreams will progress and ensure Renfrewshire ‘Keeps the Promise’ and delivers improved outcomes for individuals who are care experienced, wherever possible keeping children within their families (CF) 31-Mar-2025 A comprehensive report outlining the first 5 years of Renfrewshire’s work to Keep The Promise was presented and discussed at the Education and Children’s Services Policy Board on the 13th March 2025. The publication of this report coincided with the 5-year midpoint of the 10-year programme to Keep The Promise by 2030. Going forward this report will be updated on an annual basis and presented to the Board for consideration by elected members. The report has been well received and shared across our local and national networks. The Promise Keeper Network sits at 362 Promise Keepers with efforts taking place to grow the network. The network is receiving both local and national interest. There has been engagement with Scottish Government’s Promise Team (Care Experience, Children’s Services Reform & The Promise Division) around the merits and best practice nature of this initiative. On the 26th March three Renfrewshire Promise Funded projects were showcased at the Promise Partnership Showcase Event in Stirling organised by CORRA. The projects, the Youth Services Led Grant Programme and the two Keep The Promise Funded Education Projects, were showcased and shared learning with partners across Scotland. The Promise Manager has been working with colleagues in Environment, Housing and Infrastructure (E,H&I) around how that service will work towards Keeping The Promise and support our Care Experienced Community, and a number of actions have been incorporated into EH&I’s 2025/26 Service Improvement Plan. At February’s Promise Strategic Oversight Group, it was agreed that a review of membership take place and a proposed refreshed membership proposal be made. A suggested proposal has been produced and submitted to the Chair, for approval. The Supporting the Workforce workstream is actively progressing on a number of projects of note: “Promise Human Library,” “Care Experienced network for staff and “Guaranteed Interviews” activity. A full update was provided at recent The Promise Strategic Oversight Group.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair What we will do Due Date Status Progress update Progress the design and delivery of the Curriculum, Learning, Teaching and Assessment; the Families and Communities; and the Inclusion Portfolios within Children’s Services (CF) 31-Mar-2025 All portfolios continue to focus on the actions plans which they have developed through self-evaluation activity. Portfolio planning teams meet regularly with heads of service to discuss progress and there is now a standing agenda item on tricky issues so discussions are solution focused. Data continues to be shared across portfolios to ensure continuous improvement. Portfolio action plans are being developed to align with Service Improvement Priorities. Deliver mental health and wellbeing support, including Ren10 mental health and wellbeing network to support children, young people and their families (CF) 31-Mar-2025 A plan is in place for the next session (2025/26) and there will be a continuation of the support and resources which are demonstrating the biggest impact on children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Work is still ongoing to merge the referral process with FORT.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Green What we will do Due Date Status Progress update Continue to work with other council services to deliver improvements to the school estate which offer a high degree of environmental sustainability and energy efficiency. 31-Mar- 2026 Ongoing collaboration taking place. Most recent meetings and information sharing have been with City of Edinburgh, Perth & Kinross, North Lanarkshire. Attendance also taken place at the Learning Places Scotland conference to understand national direction of the Scottish Government, Scottish Futures Trust, and the wider industry including designers, contractors, and partner local authorities. Property Services also continue to engage in a high degree of collaboration with industry leading organisations such as Carbon Futures Trust and other local authorities about building design and operation statistics. A vast amount of data and information has been obtained and is being factored into ongoing planning.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Living our Values What we will do Due Date Status Progress update Engage and participate in Trauma Informed and Responsive Renfrewshire programme 31-Mar- 2026 Our Promoting Positive Behaviour programme was rewritten to enshrine the Trauma informed principles and included referencing the materials as part of the programme. Our program is delivered annually to all residential and day care staff in childcare and the HSCP. The childcare virtual reality training programme deals with challenging materials, and this has strong links to the national Trauma programme, which is discussed as part of the learning and the debrief sessions. One of the training team is attempting to be trained as a level 2 trainer to enable us to build more of the materials into existing programmes. The newly qualified first year in practice comes into force in October this year and as part of the mandatory learning provided training on the National Framework will be an essential element of the new social workers evidence-based learning journey. Actively promote health and wellbeing support for staff 31-Mar- 2027 Operational update in February 2025 for all senior leaders there will be a Health and Safety Team update from and an update on supports available for staff wellbeing from Organisational Development.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Living our Values What we will do Due Date Status Progress update Place the human rights and needs of every child and young person at the heart of service planning and delivery (UNCRC) 31-Mar- 2027 We continue to promote and ensure the following aims are embedded in the service, • To ensure children’s rights are respected and protected in law in Scotland • Public authorities legally required to respect and protect children’s rights in their work • Public authorities required to proactively promote children’s rights • Unlawful for public authorities to act incompatibly with UNCRC Through engagement and participation, we will ensure the collective views, needs and aspirations of children, young people and families are met. 31-Mar- 2027 The young leaders of learners' programme has been developed further with 35 establishments now engaging in work relating to promoting pupil voice. In partnership with the HSCP, closely collaborate with young people and their families to ensure a smooth transition to adult services. 31-Mar- 2027 Initial multi-agency development session took place in 2024, and further session planned for Spring 2025. Work ongoing.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Performance Key PERFORMANCE INDICATOR STATUS BELOW TARGET 8 WARNING (within 10% of Target) 15 ON TARGET 9 DATA ONLY 2 PERFORMANCE INDICATOR TREND PERFORMANCE IMPROVING PERFORMANCE IN RANGE PERFORMANCE GETTING WORSE
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair Indicator Current Status Short term trend Long term trend Q4 2023/24 Q1 2024/25 Q2 2024/25 Q3 2024/25 Q4 2024/25 Explanation of performance Value Value Value Value Value Target Percentage of Looked After Children cared for in the community 90.9% 90.2% 90.8% 90.0% 91.6% 89.9% The percentage of looked after children in the community has increased by 1.6 percentage points (pp) compared with Q3 of 2024/25. The majority of all looked after children continue to live in a community setting either with their own family or with an alternative family. A residential house or school can be more suitable for a small number of children and young people based on their needs, but the service will always seek to have a child live in a family setting where appropriate. Please note, this indicator is also reported annually, and the figure is derived from the Local Government Benchmarking Framework indicator CHN9 'Balance of care for 'looked after children': % of children being looked after in the community'. The last data published for this indicator is for 2022/23; the percentage of looked after children living with families in the community in Renfrewshire was 91.7%, greater than the Scotland average of 89.2%. Percentage of accommodated Looked After Children placed with families 90.3% 89.5% 82.6% 89.6% 90.5% 83% The majority of accommodated children live in a family setting, and this will continue to be the preferred option; with more than 90% of children accommodated in a family setting at the end of March 2025, following a drop of almost 7 percentage points (pp) between Q1 and Q2. There are times when it is more appropriate to support a looked after and accommodated child in a residential house or school, or times when a children’s hearing considers this necessary.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair Indicator Current Status Short term trend Long term trend Q4 2023/24 Q1 2024/25 Q2 2024/25 Q3 2024/25 Q4 2024/25 Explanation of performance Value Value Value Value Value Target Percentage of care leavers participating in employment, training or education 56% 61% 50% 59% 58% 55% The proportion of care leavers with open throughcare involvement and in employment, education or training has fallen by 1 percentage-point (pp) since the previous reporting period. The figure of 58% reflects that 90 care leavers with an open throughcare involvement were in employment, education or training at the end of Q4 of 2024/25. This represents an increase drop of 2pp in employment, education or training in comparison to the same period of time in the previous reporting year. Percentage of care leavers who have had a period of homelessness in the last 6 months 6% 6% 4% 2% 3% 0% The proportion of care leavers with open throughcare involvement that have had a period of homelessness in the past six months has increased to 2%; however this figure equates to 5 young people, of the 155 care leavers with an open throughcare involvement. This is a lower proportion with a period of homelessness in the same reporting period in the previous year - however with the numbers remaining less than 10 this explains the fluctuations in the proportion of care leavers this figure relates to. All individuals were either living with family members/friends or provided with temporary homeless accommodation either in Renfrewshire or in other local authority areas. Throughcare and Housing continue to work together to prevent homelessness and to support young people in sustaining tenancies.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair Indicator Current Status Short term trend Long term trend Q4 2023/24 Q1 2024/25 Q2 2024/25 Q3 2024/25 Q4 2024/25 Explanation of performance Value Value Value Value Value Target The percentage of NEW clients subject to a new supervision order seen by a supervising officer within 1 week 65% 56% 57% 75% 79% 85% Improvement continuing to rise. Target is set high however it is impacted by other variables, external to the service. Some are due to delay receiving notice from other Courts, and several are due to sentences being deferred before supervision order is imposed /matters not dealt with immediately by Court. These can lead to a time lag in information sharing and affects performance % of NEW unpaid work orders/requirement complete by the required date 95% 79% 93% 83% 97% 75% This is strongest performance this year. The remaining are mostly affected by breach proceedings. Arguably one of the most significant indicators as it means orders have been successfully managed to completion and consequently reduced returns to custody or other court disposals are required.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair Indicator Current Status Short term trend Long term trend Q4 2023/24 Q1 2024/25 Q2 2024/25 Q3 2024/25 Q4 2024/25 Explanation of performance Value Value Value Value Value Target Percentage of NEW unpaid work clients seen within 1 working day of the order 68% 68% 55% 66% 63% 70% This remains slightly below target. It is affected by longer term capacity issues (vacancies /long term absence /manager vacancy for several months). These service gaps are being actively addressed with live recruitment. An internal process gap has also been recently identified and being remedied currently. This aims to resolve a process recording issue where someone receives an UW requirement only being processed differently from orders with UW combined with a supervision requirement. This issue also has follow-on implications for the indicator below and is being resolved currently Percentage of NEW unpaid work clients receiving an induction within 5 working days of the order 64% 67% 61% 69% 69% 75% This is slightly below target for same reasons as the indicator above, most notably vacancies and absence which is actively being addressed and should positively improve when vacancies are filled Percentage of NEW unpaid work clients beginning work placement within 7 working days of the order 77% 70% 66% 69% 70% 65% This remains above target. However further improvement is still impacted mostly by capacity factors identified in indicators above that are being actively progressed
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair Indicator Status Short Term Trend Long Term Trend 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 Target Explanation of Performance Value Value Value Value % of Leavers attaining literacy SCQF Level 4 96.9% 96.1% 95.7% 94.0% 98% Renfrewshire remains ahead of the national figures and in line with the virtual comparator in this measure. In the 2023/24 leavers cohort 94% of Renfrewshire pupils achieved this literacy at SCQF level 4, compared with 94% nationally and 95% for the virtual comparator. The percentage of leavers in Renfrewshire achieving literacy at SCQF level 4 or above has remained relatively constant over the past 5 years. Targets for this measure were set before the pandemic.. % of Leavers attaining numeracy SCQF Level 4 94.5% 93.4% 93.0% 93.0% 94% Renfrewshire is consistently ahead of national figures over 5 years and remains in line with the virtual comparator. In the 2023/24 leavers cohort 93% of Renfrewshire pupils achieved SCQF level 4 numeracy, compared with 91% nationally and 92% for the virtual comparator. At SCQF level 4, numeracy attainment above national and virtual comparator is a consistent trend over the previous 5 years.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair Indicator Status Short Term Trend Long Term Trend 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 Target Explanation of Performance Value Value Value Value % of Leavers attaining literacy SCQF Level 5 90.2% 87.1% 85.3% 83.0% 88% It is not possible to make a like for like comparison to previous years within this measure due to the cancellation of exam diets in 2020 and 2021. Renfrewshire is consistently in line with the virtual comparator and ahead of national figures in this measure. In the 2023/24 leavers cohort 83% of Renfrewshire pupils achieved this measure, compared with 81% nationally and 85% for the virtual comparator. Targets for this measure were set before the pandemic. % of Leavers attaining numeracy SCQF Level 5 80.1% 76.9% 75.3% 76.0% 77% It is not possible to make a like for like comparison to previous years within this measure due to the cancellation of exam diets in 2020 and 2021. Renfrewshire remains ahead of the virtual comparator and national figures in this measure. In the 2023/24 leavers cohort 76% of Renfrewshire pupils achieved this measure, compared with 74% nationally and 71% for the virtual comparator. Renfrewshire remains in line with pre-pandemic levels, which is the most credible like for like comparison. Targets for this measure were set before the pandemic.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair Indicator Status Short Term Trend Long Term Trend 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 Target Explanation of Performance Value Value Value Value Average total tariff score of all school leavers in Renfrewshire 1,115 984 933 941 960 It is not possible to make a like for like comparison to previous years within this measure due to the cancellation of exam diets in 2020 and 2021. Renfrewshire’s data follows national trends with an increase during this period which is now returning to post-pandemic levels. Renfrewshire is consistently ahead of the national figure in this measure but remains marginally below the virtual comparator. The latest data is ahead of 2018/19 leavers cohort, which was 923. Targets for this measure were set before the pandemic. Average total tariff score of leavers living in SIMD 30% most deprived areas 826 745 681 681 700 It is not possible to make a like for like comparison to previous years within this measure due to the cancellation of exam diets in 2020 and 2021. Renfrewshire’s data follows national trends with an increase during this period which is now returning to post-pandemic levels. Renfrewshire is consistently ahead of the national figure in this measure but remains marginally below the virtual comparator. The latest data is ahead of the 2018/19 leavers cohort, which was 674. Targets for this measure were set before the pandemic.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair Indicator Status Short Term Trend Long Term Trend 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 Target Explanation of Performance Value Value Value Value Percentage gap in average total tariff score of school leavers resident in SIMD 30% most deprived and those from the 70% least SIMD deprived Renfrewshire areas. 34% 32% 36% 38% 28% The size of the gap between pupils living in most and least deprived areas has increased further in 2023/24. This is because the average total tariff score of leavers from the 30% most deprived SIMD areas increased more than those from the 70% least deprived SIMD areas. Please note - leavers in the 2020, 2021 and 2022 cohorts experienced alternative assessment methods to pre-pandemic cohorts and therefore data should be treated with caution as it is not a direct comparator with previous years. Average Total Tariff Score of Looked After Children (school leavers) 471 328 320 283 330 It is not possible to make a like for like comparison to previous years within this measure due to the cancellation of exam diets in 2020 and 2021. There is a high degree of variability in this data due to small cohorts. The 2023/24 data is in-line with pre-pandemic levels; in 2018/19, this figure was 280. Targets for this measure were set pre- pandemic.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair Indicator Status Short Term Trend Long Term Trend 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 Target Explanation of Performance Value Value Value Value Gap between the Average Total Tariff Score of Looked After Children (school leavers) and that of the total Renfrewshire leavers cohort 58% 66% 67% 62% 63% It is not possible to make a like for like comparison to previous years within this measure due to the cancellation of exam diets in 2020 and 2021. Attainment of both care experience pupils and the general cohort have followed similar patterns over this period. The percentage gap between the average total tariff score of care experienced school leavers and the general leavers cohort has improved by 5 percentage- point.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair Indicator Status Short Term Trend Long Term Trend 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 Target Explanation of Performance Value Value Value Value Percentage Point Gap in % Pupils Achieving Expected Level for their stage in Literacy between pupils living in 30% Most Deprived areas and those living in 70% Least Deprived Areas (SIMD) 12 15.4 16 14 10 The size of the attainment gap has decreased since 2022/23 and is within 0.4 percentage points of the 2021/22 figures. Attainment has improved consistently over the previous 3 years with a 5 percentage point increase in attainment in both groups. Pupils living in most deprived areas were more significantly impacted by the pandemic which caused these gaps to widen. The data indicates that some progress is being made to decrease gaps however a significant challenge remains. Percentage Point Gap in % Pupils Achieving Expected Level for their stage in Numeracy between pupils living in 30% Most Deprived areas and those living in 70% Least Deprived Areas (SIMD) 10 13.4 11 11 9 The size of the attainment gap is in line with 2022/23 and lower than in 2021/22. Attainment has increased for both groups over this period, with an 3 percentage point increase for pupils living in 30% most deprived areas and a 2 percentage point increase for those living in 70% least deprived areas. Pupils living in most deprived areas were more significantly impacted by the pandemic which caused these gaps to widen. The data indicates that some progress is being made to decrease gaps however a significant challenge remains.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair Indicator Status Short Term Trend Long Term Trend 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 Target Explanation of Performance Value Value Value Value Percentage Point Gap in % Pupils Achieving Expected Level for their stage in Literacy between pupils entitled to Free School Meals and pupils not entitled 18 21 22 18 15 Please note that due to changes in free meal entitlement these comparisons are not reliable. Previous years data will include P4 attainment which is now covered under universal provision. The size of the attainment gap has decreased since 2022/23 and is now lower than in 2021/22. Attainment of pupils entitled to free meals has increased by 7 percentage points since 2021-22 compared with 4 percentage points for those that are not entitled. Percentage Point Gap in % Pupils Achieving Expected Level for their stage in Numeracy between pupils entitled to Free School Meals and pupils not entitled 14 17 18 14 14 Please note that due to changes in free meal entitlement these comparisons are not reliable. Previous years data will include P4 attainment which is now covered under universal provision. The size of the attainment gap has decreased since 2022/23 and is now lower than in 2021/22. Attainment of pupils entitled to clothing grants has increased by 4 percentage points since 2021-22 compared with a 1 percentage point increase for those not entitled.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair Indicator Status Short Term Trend Long Term Trend 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 Target Explanation of Performance Value Value Value Value % of School leavers in a positive destination 96.5% 96.6% 96.4% 97.1% 98% The percentage of leavers entering a positive destination has increased in Renfrewshire to 97.1%. This is an increase over 5 years and Renfrewshire remains ahead of the national figure (95.7%). Compared to the previous year, a higher proportion of Renfrewshire's 2023/24 leavers cohort have entered higher education (43.1% up from 41.6%) and further education (26.1% up from 24.9%). With more leavers entering higher and further education, this means that the proportion of leavers entering employment has fallen from 26.1% to 21.4%. Compared with national figures, Renfrewshire has a higher proportion of leavers entering higher education and a lower proportion of leavers that are unemployed. No of foundation apprenticeships accessed by Renfrewshire school pupils 44 55 14 21 45 We have a higher number starting Foundation Apprenticeships this year, so hopefully we will see greater figures completing moving forward. During 2023/24, 21 young people from Renfrewshire schools began Foundation Apprenticeships. More frameworks have been established in the area, but had to be cancelled due to no uptake. A richer curriculum is currently offered at school that includes a wide range of new courses, and creates additional opportunities for young people. We will continue to work with West College Scotland to provide attractive options for young people and intend to grow this number year after year as part of the wider goal of positive post-school destinations for all young people.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair Indicator Status Short Term Trend Long Term Trend 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 Target Explanation of Performance Value Value Value Value % of children attending school (Primary) 94.6% 92.6% 92.8% 93.1% 95.5% Renfrewshire primary schools have worked hard to maintain a strong level of attendance, with a further increase from 2022/23. National and virtual comparator data for the 2023/24 school term will be available in Spring 2025. % of children attending school (Secondary) 87.9% 87.1% 86.9% 86.8% 91% Renfrewshire secondary schools have worked hard to maintain attendance. However, challenges for some families has resulted in pockets of attendance falling. This is a picture which is being replicated across the country. National and virtual comparator data for the 2023/24 school term will be available in Spring 2025.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Fair Indicator Status Short Term Trend Long Term Trend 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 Target Explanation of performance Value Value Value Value % of young people choosing to stay onto S5 (as % of S4 roll at September previous year) 94.5% 92.1% 89.5% 91.4% 92% The percentage of pupils staying on to 5th year has increased in comparison to 2023/24. There is no national comparator data for this specific measure at present. % of young people choosing to stay onto S6 (as % of S4 roll at September two years before) 72.4% 66.4% 62.6% 62.8% 71% Stay on rates for young people choosing to stay on to S6 remain below target. Education for the senior phase has a strong focus on personal development and employability skills as well as on academic attainment, and support is offered to ensure positive post-school positive destinations for all. No comparator data is available at present. Percentage of pupils satisfied with establishments Education Scotland Survey N/A 77.3% 82.6% 90.2% 100% Figures for this indicator are taken from pupil responses to surveys sent out by inspectors; in this case, it is the proportion responding positively to the statement “I enjoy learning at my school”. As such, they relate to a proportion of pupils in a small number of schools. Schools inspected in 2024/25 to date are Kirklandneuk Primary School, Bargarran Primary School, and Mossvale Primary School & Nursery Class. This measure does not take into account other statements which cover the broader aspects of school life, such as pastoral care, extracurricular activities, and the relationships between pupils and staff.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Delivering the Council Plan – Living our Values Indicator Current Status Short term trend Long term trend Q4 2023/24 Q1 2024/25 Q2 2024/25 Q3 2024/25 Q4 2024/25 Explanation of performance Value Value Value Value Value Target % of Stage 1 complaints responded to within timescales agreed with customers 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 95% Children's Services received 19 Front Line (Stage 1) complaints; all were for Education and were completed within target. % of Stage 2 complaints responded to within timescales agreed with customers 91% 86% 94% 100% 97% 95% Children's Services received 31 Investigation (Stage 2) complaints; 24 Education and 7 Social Work. 30 were completed within target; 23 Education and 7 Social Work, with 1 Education completed outwith target. This represents a drop of 3 percentage points (pp) from Q3 of 2024/25. % of FOI requests completed within timescale by Children's Services 85% 85% 81% 79% 81% 100% Children's Services, has seen an increase in the percentage of FOIs completed within 20 working days, in the final quarter of 2024/25. Overall, 81% of FOIs were completed within timescales, compared to 79% in the previous quarter. For Q4 of 2024/25, Children's Services received 71 FOIs; 53 Education and 18 Social Work. 55 were completed within the required timescale; 37 Education and 18 Social Work, while 11 ED FOIs were completed outwith the timescale.
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Management Information Indicator Q4 2023/24 Q1 2024/25 Q2 2024/25 Q3 2024/25 Q4 2024/25 Explanation of performance Value Value Value Value Value Percentage of children registered in this period who have previously been on the Child Protection Register 11.1% 22.0% 4.0% 4.7% 3.2% There were 31 new CP registrations between January and March 2025; similar to the number of registrations in the same period in 2024. Of the CP registrations in this period, 10 children had previously been registered, 1 within the last 2 years. Re- registrations are monitored as part of the Renfrewshire Child Protection Committee’s performance management to ensure that there have been no inappropriate de-registrations. Number of children on the Child Protection Register at quarter end date 61 76 76 71 63 There were 63 children on the Child Protection Register (CPR) as at the reporting period end date in Q4 of 2024/25. During Q4, there were 30 children newly registered, and 38 children were de-registered. Trends in child protection activity are monitored by the Renfrewshire Child Protection Committee which receives a report on a range of performance measures. Please note that there are no targets for these indicators
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Title can go here • Click to edit Master text styles • Second level • Third level • Fourth level • Fifth level Children’s Services Service Improvement Plan 2024 – 27 2024/25 Outturn Report