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The Highland Children's Services Plan articulates how partners work together to provide services which are organised, equipped to deliver high quality, joined-up, trauma-informed, responsive, and preventative support to children and families.
The Children's Rights and Participation Group are one of 6 strategic oversight groups who are accountable for delivering on the plan.
The Highland Children's Services Plan articulates how partners work together to provide services which are organised, equipped to deliver high quality, joined-up, trauma-informed, responsive, and preventative support to children and families.
The Children's Rights and Participation Group are one of 6 strategic oversight groups who are accountable for delivering on the plan.
Integrated Children's Service Plan - CYP version.pdfA big thank you to the Foundation Apprentices at Care and Learning Alliance, who have created the children and young people's version of the plan, which you can see above. Below is the standard version of the Children's Service Plan.
A big thank you to the Foundation Apprentices at Care and Learning Alliance, who have created the children and young people's version of the plan, which you can see above. Below is the standard version of the Children's Service Plan.
Watch this space - we are working with children and young people to bring you the child friendly version of Plan 2026 - 2029.
Watch this space - we are working with children and young people to bring you the child friendly version of Plan 2026 - 2029.
Highland Children's Services Partnership Plan 2026 - 2029
Highland Children's Services Partnership Plan 2026 - 2029
Highland children’s services partnership provides the mechanism through which national ambitions for children, young people and families are translated into coordinated, outcome-focused action at a local level. The Highland Children’s Services Partnership Plan (2026–2029) sets out how partners across Highland will work collectively to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families. The plan establishes a shared strategic framework for:
•understanding need
•agreeing joint priorities
•aligning services and resources
•monitoring progress and impact
It places a strong emphasis on prevention, early intervention, children’s rights and whole-family approaches, recognising that children’s wellbeing is shaped by a complex interaction of services, communities and wider social and economic conditions.
To find out more about the work of the Children's Services Partnership Board, you can visit the Highland Community Planning Partnership website.
To find out more about the work of the Children's Services Partnership Board, you can visit the Highland Community Planning Partnership website.
Highland Integrated Children's Services Board - Voice & Influence Process
Highland Integrated Children's Services Board - Voice & Influence Process
Children and Young People told us they wanted to be able to influence decision making that impacts on them, at all levels.
The Voice Process is one element of the implementation of our Children & Young People's Participation Strategy, and should be used in tandem with the Involving C&YP in Decisions that Affect Them: A Guide for Practitioners tool. It seeks to give children a route directly in to the Integrated Children's Services Board, and it's Delivery Groups.
Children are able to feed in ideas for things that can be improved, or though participatory work with practitioners, they can reach into the board and the delivery groups to ask for advice and guidance on projects that they wish to undertake to improve things for their peers.
Th Process also helps the board and it's delivery groups to consider how to 'reach out' to children and young people, considering whether children have already answered the questions that they may be seeking answers to (children told us to stop asking them the same questions!).
This will be supported by our Library of Voices tool.
The process itself requires the child (if general feedback for improvement, or the practitioner (if requesting project advice and guidance), to complete an MS Form . This form will be reviewed and passed to the board or relevant delivery group to consider and respond. Further detail is included on the poster and within the form about how feedback can be expected.
For further information or support regarding the Voice Process and Library of Voices, please contact Jo Chamberlain or Sadie Kevill.
Children's Voice Report 2026
Children's Voice Report 2026
The purpose of this report was to summarise the views of children across Highland, with the aim that their voices were able to shape the Integrated Children’s Services Plan (2026 2029).
We want to make sure that we are really listening. The views shared here sits alongside the information that was gathered for the Highland Children and Young People’s Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2026, and helped us build a full picture of what life is like for children across Highland.
By bringing children’s voices into this work, we can make sure their voice shaped the priorities in the Children’s Services Plan for 2026–29, ensuring the support and services we design truly reflected what they said they needed.
This work was developed as part of our commitment within the Integrated Children’s Services Plan 2023–26 to create a Children’s Rights and Participation Strategy.
It builds on the ongoing journey across the partnership to strengthen how we listen to children and young people, bring together the many ways their voices are gathered, and ensure these voices meaningfully shape local planning and decision‑making. The aim has been to move from aspiration to action, turning the principles set out in the Children and Young People’s Participation Strategy into everyday reality for children and young people across Highland.
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