Jordanhill School Budget Review 2025/26: children's rights and wellbeing impact assessment

Conclusion

7. As a result of the evidence gathered and analysed against all UNCRC requirements, what is the potential overall impact of this proposal on children’s rights?

Officials determine that the proposed increase to the School’s grant funding for the 2025/26 financial year will have an overall positive impact on children’s rights, as a result of the School being able to meet its ongoing costs.

8. If you have identified a positive impact on children’s rights, please describe below how the proposal will protect, respect, and fulfil children’s rights in Scotland.

The School provides education for over 1000 children and young people. This grant funding aims to meet the School’s needs and outgoings, resulting in the quality of its current provision being maintained. This is likely to have a positive impact on all children and young people attending the School.

The proposal seeks to maintain staffing at current levels in order to maintain parity as far as possible with the funding provided to local authority schools. This aims to maintain the current level of targeted support for children in need of additional support, particularly those children with additional support needs.

The proposal seeks to agree capital costs associated with the school estate as set out by the School ahead of the 2025/26 financial year, ensuring the safety of its pupils and staff.

9. If a negative impact has been identified please describe it below. Is there a risk this could potentially amount to an incompatibility?

No negative impacts have been established. The proposal is compatible with the UNCRC requirements.

Mitigation Record

What options have been considered to modify the proposal in order to mitigate a negative impact or potential incompatibility?

Please summarise mitigation actions taken below

Issue or risk identified and relevant UNCRC requirement

Not applicable.

Action Taken/ To Be Taken

Not applicable.

Date action to be taken or was taken

Not applicable.

10. As a result of the evidence gathered and analysed against all wellbeing indicators, will the proposal contribute to the wellbeing of children and young people in Scotland?

Safe: Yes

Healthy: Yes

Achieving: Yes

Nurtured: Not Applicable

Active: Yes

Respected: Not Applicable

Responsible: Not Applicable

Included: Yes

If yes, please provide an explanation below:

Safe

The annual grants to the School provide resource and capital funding to ensure the condition of the school estate is maintained to the required standards, contributing to the physical safety of the pupils and staff attending the School.

Achieving

The annual grants provide funding to ensure the school estate is maintained and buildings are safe for the School’s pupils and staff. It is important that the appropriate level of funding is secured to cover any issues arising which may compromise the safety of the School’s buildings.

The grant funding also seeks to ensure suitable resource is available to enable the School to offer a full curriculum to its pupils.

Healthy and Active

The School provides a wide range of opportunities for children to participate in sporting activities.

An increase in funding aims to allow the School to maintain the quality of its sporting provision. This would allow children to be active and maintain their health through regular participation in sporting activities.

Achieving

An increase in Scottish Government funding aims to allow the School to maintain its educational provision in relation to, for example, class sized and curricular choice. This would allow children the opportunity to maintain their current levels of achievement.

Included

The School is an inclusive school which aims to ensure the diverse needs of a wide range of children can be met in a mainstream environment. Much of this support is provided in class by teachers, through specialist support, through the creation of bespoke intervention groups, and through the creation of specific classes with smaller class sizes to allow pupils to receive greater support from staff.

An increase to funding aims ensure the School can meet its staffing costs, subsequently allowing it to maintain its current level of support for pupils. The School will also be able to sustain its provision for 50+ pupils from Glasgow City Council schools attending Jordanhill to study Advanced Highers.

11. How will you communicate to children and young people the impact that the proposal will have on their rights?

Primary engagement with children and young people affected by the proposal will be through the School, through their engagement with parents of prospective and current pupils and through the Board of Directors. Changes in the school that impact on children are also communicated via school assemblies.

This CRWIA will be published on the Scottish Government website (gov.scot), meeting all statutory accessibility requirements.