Key question 7 for secure accommodation services
Our children and young people’s inspection teams began using key question 7 in April 2022. As part of everyone's journey to meet the Promise, we reviewed key question 7 with inspectors, young people who experience or have experienced care and providers to evaluate the impact it was having and how well it was supporting the sector to self-evaluate its own performance. We have made some changes as a result of this review and agreed that we will continue to use key question 7 for inspections from April 2024 onwards.
- Key question 7 for secure accommodation services
- Self-evaluation tools and guidance for secure accommodation services
QI 7.1: Children and young people are safe, feel loved and get the most out of life
An Independent Guide to Quality Care for Autistic People
Animal Magic: The benefits of being around and caring for animals across care settings
Care Homes for Children and Young People – The Design Guide
Celebrating Success: What helps looked after children succeed
Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014: Part 11
Children and Young People (Scotland) Act (2014): Guidance on Part 11: Continuing Care
Children and Young People (Scotland) Act (2014): Guidance on Part 10: Aftercare
Child Sexual Exploitation: Definition and Practitioner Briefing Paper
Creating a Tobacco Free Culture
Children and Young People (Scotland) Act (2014): Guidance on Part 10: Aftercare
Continuing Care and Co: Conversation Openers
Designing with Care Interior Design and Residential Childcare
Go Outdoors! Guidance and good practice on encouraging outdoor activities in residential childcare
Guidance for Care Providers in Scotland using CCTV
Guidance for providers on the assessment of staffing levels in: premises-based care services
Guidance for services on the provision of continuing care
Guidance on Health Assessments for Looked After Children and Young People in Scotland
Guidance on personal plans - Children and young people
Guide to youth justice in Scotland: Policy, practice and legislation: Section 3: Theory and Methods
Health and Social Care Standards
Health resource pack for staff and care Insights: Children, Food and Care
Information from the Scottish Human Rights Commission
Insights: Attachment-informed Practice with Looked after Children and Young People
Insights: Trauma Sensitive Practice with Children in Care
Key Messages for Young People on Healthy Relationships and Consent
Learning Disabilities and Behaviour that Challenges: Service Design and Delivery
Managing Medicines in Care Homes (NICE)
National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2021
National Missing Persons Framework for Scotland
Parental rights and responsibilities under Children (Scotland) Act 1995
Practice Guide: Involving Children and Young People in Improving Services
Practice Guide: Suicide prevention for looked after children and young people
Practice guide to chronologies
Principles of Good Transitions 3
Prompting, assisting and administration of medication in a care setting: guidance for professionals
Responding to offending in residential childcare – Next steps
Rights: Information for young people looked after away from home
Rights: Information for young people who are looked after in secure care
Rights, risks and limits to freedom
Safe Administration of Medication: Modules 1-3
See, Think, Act (Royal College of Psychiatrists Centre for Quality Improvement)
7 Golden Rules for Participation and other rights information
Staying put Scotland: providing care leavers with connectedness and belonging
The Scottish Care Leavers Covenant
The Support and Assistance of Young People Leaving Care (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015
Throughcare and Aftercare Services in Scotland’s Local Authorities: A National Study
QI 7.2: Leaders and staff have the capacity and resources to meet and champion children and young people’s needs and rights
Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014, asp 8
Information about health and safety at work
Information Commissioner’s advice on data protection, including GDPR
Insights: Achieving Effective Supervision
Leading for Outcomes: Children and Young People (IRISS)
National Occupational Standards
National Guidance for the External Management of Residential Child Care Establishments in Scotland
Notifications about Controlled Drugs: Guidance for Providers
Organisational Duty of Candour
Personal outcomes collaboration
Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, asp 8
Self-evaluation for improvement: Your guide
Text to complain service for children and young people
The National Health and Social Care Workforce Plan