What is the purpose of the My World triangle?

What is the purpose of the My World triangle?

The My World Triangle helps practitioners understand a child or young person’s whole world. It can be used to explore their experience at every stage, recognising there are connections between the different parts of their world. In assessment, it can be used to explore needs and risks.

What 3 key areas are there in the My World triangle?

Understand that the move from using the Wellbeing Indicators to the use of the My World. Know the three component parts of the My World Triangle (i.e. How I Grow and Develop, What I Need from People who Look after Me and How I Grow & Develop) Have analysed assessment information and developed outcomes.

What does Shanarri stand for?

To ensure everyone has a common understanding of what wellbeing means, the Scottish Government has described wellbeing in terms of eight indicators, which are Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included. These are sometimes abbreviated to the acronym known as SHANARRI.

What is GIRFEC model?

Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) encourages all the adults in the life of a child or young person to look out for their wellbeing and offer help if they or their family want or need it. Each child is unique and there is no set level of wellbeing that children should achieve.

What does Girfec mean for practitioners?

Getting it right for every child
The Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) approach supports children and young people so that they can grow up feeling loved, safe and respected and can realise their full potential. At home, in school or the wider community, every child and young person should be: Safe. Healthy.

Why was Girfec introduced?

GIRFEC was introduced by the Scottish Government in 2006 as it was widely recognised that services needed to work together and that children and parents needed one clear point of contact to ensure that the right help is offered at the right time.

Is Shanarri a framework?

The Scottish Government introduced Getting It Right For Every Child (GIRFEC) as the vehicle for achieving its social policy framework. GIRFEC and the SHANARRI initiatives can only be useful with quality data that can be MEASURED accurately.

How do you reference Shanarri?

These eight factors are often referred to by their initial letters – SHANARRI….At home, in school or the wider community, every child and young person should be:

1. Safe.
2. Healthy.
3. Achieving.
4. Nurtured.
5. Active.
6. Respected.
7. Responsible.
8. Included.

What are the 5 Girfec questions?

The 5 GIRFEC questions every professional should ask.

• What is getting in the way of this child or young person’s wellbeing?
• Do I have all the information I need to help this child or young person?
• What can I do now to help this child or young person?
• What can my agency do to help this child or young person?

What are the 8 wellbeing indicators?

1. Every child or young person should be safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible and included. These eight indicators help make sure everyone – children, parents, and the people who work with them, such as teachers and health visitors – has a common understanding of wellbeing.

What are the 5 GIRFEC questions?

Why do we use Shanarri?

These eight factors are often referred to by their initial letters – SHANARRI. They are wellbeing indicators which help make it easier for children and families and the people working with them to discuss how a child or young person is doing at a point in time and if there is a need for support.

What is the ‘My World’ Assessment Triangle?

The ‘My World’ Assessment Triangle provides the basis for holistic assessment of a child’s or young person’s needs. It is an ecological approach to assessing him/her holistically.

How do I use the my World Triangle?

It is particularly helpful to use the My World Triangle to gather more information from other sources (some of it possibly specialist), to identify the strengths or wellbeing concerns in the child or young person’s world. This may include information about health or learning, offending behaviour or information about issues affecting parenting.

How can the my World Triangle and resilience matrix be used?

The My World Triangle and the Resilience Matrix are then used to gather, structure and assist in the analysis of information. In some cases, recording progress using the wellbeing indicators will allow practitioners to identify concerns that only become apparent from cumulative information or collated single-agency or multi-agency records.