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Manual Version June 2011

1. All Children
2. Preventive and Supportive Services
3. Looked After Services
4. Adoption and Permanence
5. Appendices

1. All Children

1.1	Policies, Values and Principles
1.1.1	Policies, Values and Principles (Values)
1.1.2	CareFirst v6 Handbook
1.1.3	Case File Audits for Fieldwork Teams
1.2	Referrals, Assessments and Planning
1.2.1	Thresholds for Need for Intervention by Safeguarding & Specialist Provision Service
1.2.2	CAF Interface between Children and Young Peoples Service Providers Specialist Provision and Safeguarding
1.2.3	Initial Contacts and Referrals
1.2.4	Initial Assessments
1.2.5	Core Assessments (Including Section 47 Enquiries)
1.2.6	Universal Assessments Guidance
1.2.7	Care Plans Guidance
1.2.8	Emergency Duty Service Request for Assessment from Daytime Services
1.2.9	Safeguarding and Specialists responsibilities to children in need, children subject to child Protection Plans and Children subject to Supervision Order or Care Order
1.3	Pre-Birth Assessment Procedures
1.3.1	Pregnant Looked After Young People
1.3.2	Pre Birth Assessments Procedure
1.3.3	Guidance for Conducting the Pre-birth Core Assessment
1.4	Court Proceedings
1.4.1	Applications for Emergency Protection Orders
1.4.2	Court Proceedings
1.4.3	Public Law Outline - FAQ
1.5	Safeguarding Children
1.5.1	Death of, or Serious Injury to, Child in Community or Child in Care
1.5.2	Activities
1.5.3	Transporting Children
1.5.4	Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
1.5.5	Families with No Recourse to Public Funding
1.5.6	Joint Procedure for the Assessment of Homeless 16 and 17 Year Olds
1.5.7	Procedure Governing Roles and Responsibilities Between the Youth Offending Team and Safeguarding and Specialist Provision
1.6	Complaints and Whistle-Blowing
1.6.1	Complaints Procedure
1.6.2	Responding to Complaints - Good Practice Guidance for Staff
1.7	Allocation of Work
1.7.1	Case Accountability and Transfer of Cases
1.8	Children's Records
1.8.1	Access to Records
1.8.2	Retention and Destruction of Records

2. Preventive and Supportive Services

2.1	Children in Need
2.1.1	Child in Need Plans and Reviews	Updated
2.1.2	Private Fostering
2.1.3	Children With Disabilities (to follow)
2.1.4	Working with Interpreters
2.1.5	Provision of Financial Assistance Including Section 17 Payments, Exceptional Payments to LAC and Casework Expenses
2.2	Family Intervention and Support
2.2.1	Family Intervention and Support Services
2.2.2	Family Intervention and Support Services - Eligibility Criteria Levels of Need
2.2.3	Referrals for Family Support and Family Support and Assessment - Flowchart
2.2.4	Family Intervention and Support Service Weekend Support Policy
2.3	Sure Start Children’s Centre
2.3.1	Framework and Practice Guidance Toolkit for Practitioners
2.3.2	Safeguarding Policy: Template
2.3.3	Safeguarding Champion Roles
2.4	Integrated Working Board – Children under 5 and their families
2.4.1	Terms of Reference for Integrated Working Board

3. Looked After Services

3.1	Planning for Children Looked After
3.1.1	Decision to Look After and Care Planning	Updated
3.1.2	Placement Referrals Duty Procedure
3.1.3	Obtaining an External Residential Placement
3.1.4	Permanence Planning Guidance	Updated
3.1.5	Placement Planning and Disruption Meetings	Updated
3.2	Placements
3.2.1	Placements in Foster Care
3.2.2	Placements with Connected Persons	Updated
3.2.3	Placements in Residential Care
3.2.4	Placements in Secure Accommodation
3.2.5	Placements With Parents	Updated
3.2.6	Placements Outside England and Wales	Updated
3.3	Monitoring Placements
3.3.1	Social Worker Visits	Updated
3.3.2	Advocacy and Independent Visitors	Updated
3.4	Reviews
3.4.1	Looked After Reviews	Updated
3.4.2	Secure Accommodation (Criteria) Reviews
3.5	Contact with Family and Friends
3.5.1	Contact With Parents and Siblings
3.5.2	Social Visits and Overnight Stays With Friends
3.6	Education, Leisure, Holidays and School Trips
3.6.1	Education of Looked After Children	Updated
3.6.2	Personal Education Plans
3.6.3	Holidays and School/Organisational Trips in the UK
3.6.4	Holidays and School/Organisational Trips Outside the UK
3.6.5	Leisure and Activities
3.6.6	Passports for Looked After Children (including Foster Carers and Placement with Parents Regulations)
3.7	Health and Wellbeing
3.7.1	Health Care Assessments and Health Plans	Updated
3.7.2	Drugs and Substance Misuse (Including Smoking)
3.7.3	Administration of Medication
3.7.4	GPs, Dentists and Opticians
3.7.5	Sexual Health
3.7.6	Self Harming
3.7.7	BAAF Practice Note No 53 - Guidelines for the Testing of Looked After Children who are at risk of a Blood-Borne Infection
3.8	Privacy and Personal Care
3.8.1	Children's Bedrooms
3.8.2	Hair and Skin Care
3.8.3	Physical Contact and Intimate Care
3.8.4	Touch Guidance
3.9	Behaviour Management
3.9.1	Sanctions
3.9.2	Physical Intervention
3.9.3	Countering Bullying
3.10	Incidents
3.10.1	Contacting the Police
3.10.2	Searching Children and Their Belongings
3.10.3	Incidents Guidance
3.11	Foster Carers
3.11.1	Fostering Panel
3.11.2	Assessment and Approval of Foster Carers
3.11.3	Fostering Exemptions and Extensions
3.11.4	Persons Disqualified from Fostering
3.11.5	Supervision of Foster Carers
3.11.6	Review of Foster Carers
3.11.7	Allegations Against Foster Carers
3.11.8	Conducting Family/Friend Carer Fostering Assessments
3.12	Leaving Care and Transition to Adulthood
3.12.1	Leaving Care	Updated
3.12.2	Registration for National Insurance
3.12.3	Financial Assistance for Looked After Children Aged 16 and Over and for Young People who have left care
3.12.4	Placement in Supported Lodgings
3.12.5	Protocol for the Allocation of Young People within YOT and the LAC/Leaving Care Teams subject to Court Ordered Secure Remands and Placed into Secure Training Centres and Secure Children’s Homes	New
3.13	Miscellaneous
3.13.1	Change of Name of a Looked After Child
3.13.2	Marriage of a Looked After Child
3.13.3	Child Trust Funds

4. Adoption and Permanence

4.1	Adoption
4.1.1	Adoption Panel
4.1.2	Assessment and Approval of Prospective Adopters
4.1.3	Children Relinquished for Adoption
4.1.4	Placement for Adoption
4.1.5	Adoption Support
4.1.6	Monitoring and Supervision of Adoptive Placements
4.1.7	Adoption Reviews
4.1.8	Disruption of Adoptive Placements
4.1.9	Allegations Against Prospective Adopters
4.1.10	Inter-County Adoption
4.1.11	Non-Agency Adoption
4.1.12	Adoption Case Records
4.1.13	Access to Birth Records and Adoption Case Records
4.1.14	Intermediary Services
4.1.15	Adoption and Placement The Annex A and Annex B Report
4.2	Other Permanence Options
4.2.1	Applications for Special Guardianship Orders
4.3	Guidance
4.3.1	Court Reports in Adoption/Special Guardianship
4.3.2	Life Story Books Guidance
4.3.3	Later Life Letters

5. Appendices

5.1	Children and Young People Service (ChYPS) Organisation Structure Chart
5.2	Safeguarding and Specialist Provision Structure Chart
5.3	Local Contacts
5.4	Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010

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