Prosperous Children & Young People - Improvement Stories

Prosperous Children & Young People - Improvement Progress

The vision within our Local Outcome Improvement Plan is for Aberdeen being a place where all people can prosper, regardless of their circumstances. We have 74 improvement aims to help us achieve that vision. Find out about some of our children and young people projects; their achievements and the impact on our communities from the case studies below.

New Children’s Services Strategic Plan 2023-26 

On 19 April 2023, the CPA Board approved a new Children’s Services Strategic Plan 2023-26 which sets out our 6 key priorities and actions to help improve outcomes for children, young people and their families in Aberdeen. It also forms the basis of three-year cycle of work to achieve the ten-year vision laid out in our Community Planning Aberdeen Local Outcome Improvement Plan (LOIP) 2016-2026, under the Prosperous People: Children & Young People theme. See the summary and children and young people’s version of the Plan below:

Children’s Services Plan Summary

Children’s Services Plan Children and Young People’s Version 

New Aberdeen City's Children's Servcies Strategic Plan 2023-26

Improvement Case Studies

Project End Reports

Children & Young People

7.1 Supporting our Growth Sector Industries: Increasing access to courses across our schools

7.2 Increase the number of vulnerable learners entering a positive and sustained destination by 7% by 2023

9.3 Supporting Young People in Conflict with the Law: Improving Outcomes & Reducing Re-offending

4.1 To reduce the number of births affected by drugs by 0.6 %, by 2022

4.2 To reduce the number of repeat emergency hospital admissions for unintentional injury to children under 5 years by 5% by 2023

4.3 To increase uptake of parenting & family support by 10%

4.4 To reduce the number of children starting Primary 1 in Aberdeen City with an identified speech delay by 5% by August 2023

5.1 Increase to 80%, the number of staff who feel confident about how to directly support, or refer a child for support, and signpost to appropriate services by 2022

5.2 To Increase by 80% the use of digital resources for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing by 2022 and to Increase by 40% the use of the wellbeing scenario on the Mind Of My Own app by care experienced children and young people by 2022.

5.3 100% of schools offer sustainable and equitable access to counselling for those children aged 10 and above who require it by 2022.

5.4 100% of children and young people have free access to physical activity which improves mental health and wellbeing by 2022.

6.1 To Increase the number of care experienced young people accessing a positive and sustained destination by 25% by 2022

6.2 To increase to 43%, by 2023, the proportion of children and young people who are supported to live in kinship care or are looked after at home; and to Increase by 20% the number of children and young people remaining in a placement, looked after at home/kinship, between 16-18 years old by 2023

7.1 Increase the number of accredited courses directly associated with growth areas by 7% by 2023.

7.3 To increase the number of young people leaving school with a minimum of SCQF Level 3 in literacy and numeracy and 4 other qualifications to 93% by 2023

9.1 To: Reduce the number of 16/17 year olds with higher support needs offending by 2022 and to Increase number of young people who need support in relation to trauma and bereavement having access to such support by 50% by 2023

9.2 To reduce by 10% both the number of offences of sexual or criminal exploitation and the number of ‘digital’ offences by Young People (Under 18) by 2022

9.3 Increase by 10% the number of young people (16-17 year olds) who are jointly reported to SCRA and COPFS who are offered robust alternatives to entering the statutory system by 2022

9.4 To reduce instances of public space youth anti-social behaviour as a result of appropriate and effective interventions in targeted areas by 10% by 2022

9.5 To increase by 50% the number of 10 to 16 year olds in target areas of the city who access youth community activity by 2023