Health & Wellbeing in Integrated Learning Communities

As my site attracts more visitors, some maybe not familiar with the amount of blogging jargon, definitions and acronyms we use in education and health. I’ve created my own glossary to be helpful. In no terms yet an exhaustive list but one I’ll populate as go along my journey!

ACE - A Curriculum for Excellence, now much more widely known as CfE, Curriculum for Excellence

ACSF - Area Children’s Services Forum

AiFL - Assessment is For Learning

ASD – Autistic Spectrum Disorder

ASG – Associated School Group (a Secondary School and its associated primaries). Also know known as an ILC.

ASL – Additional support for Learning legislation

ASN – Additional Support Needs

BBS – ‘Building a Better Scotland’. Intent of Scottish Executive’s spending review

BLOG - short form for weblog - An online dated diary listing your thoughts, usually in reverse chronological order

Blogging - the act of posting on blogs

Blogger - a person who blogs

Blogosphere - The internet blogging community

CAMHS – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

CDD – Communication & Developmental Disorders

CfE - Curriculum for Excellence

CHSG – Child Health Support Group

CHP – Community Health Partnership

Children and Young People – Variously defined by age depending on target audience – can range from (pre) Pregnancy to Young Adult. 0 to 24 years.

Children Affected by Disability – The legal definition includes children who are disabled, or chronically sick, or suffering from a mental disorder. In this Plan, we include some services for children who are chronically sick in the section regarding ‘additional health needs’.

Children’s Champions – 8 Elected Members (Councillors) with a specific remit to provide an area political lead on services for children, families and young people.

Children’s Panel – Panel of trained, local volunteers. Three members of the Panel sit on any Children’s Hearing and determine what is in the best interests of the child.

Children’s Reporters – Independent officials, employed by SCRA, acting as gatekeepers to the Children’s Hearing System.

CPN – Community Psychiatric Nurse

DCFP – Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

DDA – Disability Discrimination Act

DMFT – Decayed, missing and/or filled teeth.

FHC1 – Integrated Children’s Services Plan: “For Highlands Children 2001-2004”.

FHC2 – Integrated Children’s Services Plan: “For Highlands Children 2005-2008”.

‘Gael Og’ – Various Youth Action Services organised by NCH including: Intensive Supervision, Positive Options, Substance Misuse Referral Scheme, Mentoring Project.

GIRFEC – Getting it Right For Every Child

HAG – Health Action Group

Hall 4 – Evidence-based guide re Child Health screening and surveillance.

HIA - Health Impact Assessment

HWBA – Highland Wellbeing Alliance Community Planning Partnership of pan-Highland organisations.

HPS – Health Promoting Schools

‘In Need’ – Statutorily defined as unlikely to maintain, or likely to have impaired, a reasonable standard of health or development unless services of a local authority are provided; or disabled; or affected by the disability of a family member.

ICP – Integrated Care Pathway: A range of services based on an individual’s needs irrespective of organisational boundaries.

IAF – Integrated (Common) Assessment Framework. A bringing together (from all perspectives) of information and its analysis to guide appropriate action around a child.

IWB - Interactive White Board

ILC - Intergrated Learning Community, based arounf the secondary school, feeder primaries and all key stakeholders within.

Intervention Plan – An integrated package of appropriate health care and education support for a child or young person – that is agreed as a consequence of the integrated assessment process.

ISS and ISMS – Implementation of an Intensive Support Service (ISS) and associated Monitoring Services (ISMS).

JCCYP – Joint Committee on Children & Young People.

Key Outcomes – The performance measures agreed for the integrated Children’s Plan (FCH2).

LOA – Local Outcome agreement. The performance measures agreed for FHC1.

Looked After Child (LAC) – A child who is accommodated; or subject to a supervision requirement while living at home; or subject to a child protection order; or subject to a parental responsibilities order.

MCN – Managed Clinical Network

NCSA – New Community School approach, increasingly referred to as Integrated Community School Approach(es)

PMHW – Primary Mental Health Worker

PSE - Personal and Social Education

Pupil Council – School pupil body to contribute to decision making within the school, and perhaps the wider community.

Pupil Support Service – A network of additional services across Highland, aimed at reducing school exclusions and supporting vulnerable pupils.

QA – Quality Assurance

QIT – Quality Improvement Team of the Highland Council’s Education, Culture & Sport Service.

QIF – Quality Improvement Framework for Integrated Children’s Services.

QIS – NHS Quality Improvement Scotland.

SCQF – Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework – the main programmes and qualifications that make up Scottish Education.

SCRA – The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (the independent agency, accountable to Scottish Ministers – and responsible for the Children’s Reporters service).

SHARE - Sexual Health and Relationships Education OR Safe, happy and Responsible.

SIMD – Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation – now mapped to smaller populations (data zones) below council ward area.

SIP – Social Inclusion Partnership. Reduced Scottish Executive funding will be available to Highland from 2005-06 from the Community Regeneration Fund – detailed within the Regeneration Outcome Agreement.

SLG – School Liaison Group (and arrangements) – along with Early Years arrangements, known collectively as ‘Liaison Groups’.

SNS - Social Networking Sites, e.g. Facebook, BEBO, My Space.

SMS - Short Message Service

STRADA – Scottish Training on Drugs and Alcohol.

Transition – A range of possible stages: including early years provision; school entry; primary to secondary; hospital to community care; leaving school etc.

UCAS – Universities & Colleges Admissions Service.

UHI – University of the Highlands & Islands Millenium Institute.

URL - Uniform Resource Locator (web address shortcut)

WHO - World Health Organisation

Wiki - Reduplication of the Hawaiin word for ‘quick’, A tool that enables users to create, edit and contribute to a webpage.

Wrap-around Provision – Maximising opportunities for services to be provided to children and families in a joined-up way as part of co-ordinated arrangements accessible to all communities.

YAS – Youth Action Team: Area based Social Work Service Teams, addressing youth crime and substance misuse as part of Youth Action.

Young Carers – Young people who provide care for parents, carers, extended family or siblings.

Youth Forum – Local collection of youth representatives, to contribute to local decision making.

Please let me know if you want to see anything added!

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