Early Action: System Change Renfrewshire
Public system reform | Service design
Renfrewshire Council, Engage Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership and the Ariel Trust.
We are working with Renfrewshire Council, Engage Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership and the Ariel Trust to undertake a three-year System Change initiative to promote young people’s emotional wellbeing and to address emotional coercive control in adolescent relationships. It forms part of The National Lottery Community Fund’s Early Action System Change Fund tackling the root causes of inequality.
The need
In 2016/17 Renfrewshire Council commissioned us to repeat the Children Count survey , originally completed in 2011) The survey captured the well-being of over 85% of children and young people aged 9-16 years in Renfrewshire schools. The survey highlighted young people’s emotional wellbeing as an area of concern with the data showing an almost two-fold increase in rates of clinically likely diagnosable levels of anxiety and depression between 2011 and 2017. The survey also found that 25% of secondary school age pupils who had been in relationships had experienced worrying levels of emotional control within these relationships.
Our response
We will understand the system dynamics and identify leverage points for change and opportunities for investment by running system and service mapping workshops. Existing spend will be mapped and we will identify 1-5% to be reinvested towards early action. Working collaboratively with the voluntary sector to build capacity of young people and families to participate, we will co-design responses to the issues. These will then be implemented and rigorously tested using rapid cycle testing techniques to inform adaptations and ongoing improvements.
The work is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. Our partners are Renfrewshire Council, Engage Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership and the Ariel Trust.
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