GIRFEC and SHANARRI

Wellbeing (SHANARRI)

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

• Achieving

• Nurtured

• Active

• Respected

• Responsible

• Included

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.

Each child is unique and there is no set level of wellbeing that children should achieve. Wellbeing is influenced by children’s individual experiences and changing needs as they grow.

Here at Skene Square Nursery we refer to the SHANARRI Indicators/characters as our 'Care Crew' and have named the Characters and also created our own 'Super Shanarri' to include talking about our feelings and emotions. Below is a short description of each character as well as their name given by our nursery children in 2018.