The ‘What Matters’ questions were created from what children and families told the Independent Care Review about what was important to them.
The questions provide a way of interrogating data that is currently used for its value in relation to what matters to children and families and can be used as an improvement tool for both data and practice.
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The What Matters Questions are based directly on what children and families told the Independent Care Review about what was important to them. The ‘What Matters’ questions will help root Scotland’s understanding of what ‘good’ looks like through the experience of what makes a difference, rather than what ‘good’ looks like to the ‘system’. In turn this will guide Scotland’s planning and actions.
The ‘What Matters’ questions should be used to help assess the extent to which work to keep the promise, including data collection, use and development, is moving things closer to being able to answer those questions. Where the questions cannot be fully answered, they are intended to help identify gaps in understanding and support, or changes needed in processes and practice, from the perspective of what children and their families have already shared about what needs to happen.