List of Agency Decision Makers, Designated Managers and Nominated Officers
AMENDMENT
This chapter was updated in October 2024.Designated Managers with Specified Area of Responsibility
| Designated Managers with Specified Area of Responsibility | Post Title and Contact Details |
Agency Decision Maker (Adoption)The Agency Decision Maker who makes decisions on all adoption matters (some of which will be made on the basis of a recommendation of the Adoption Panel). |
Chair/Decision Maker: Service Director Vice Chair/Decision Maker: Christine Bennett (Head of Service Assessment & Intervention South & Disabled Childrens Service) Deputy: Anna Gledhill, Head of children’s improvement, participation and Voice |
Agency Decision Maker (Fostering)The Agency Decision Maker who makes decisions on fostering matters (on the basis of recommendations of the Fostering Panel). |
Post title: Head of Service (Corporate Parenting) Head of Children's Improve, Part & Voice Head of Service Head of Safeguarding & Quality Assurance |
Designated Manager (Adoption Panel Appointments)The manager who can authorise appointments to the Central List of Adoption Panel members. |
One Adoption West Yorkshire Contact details: oneadoptionwy@kirklees.gov.uk |
Designated Manager (Adoption Support)The manager who can authorise the level of adoption support to be provided to children, adopters (including financial support) and their family or birth family members. |
Service Director Vicky Metheringham |
Designated Manager (Care Plans)The manager who can authorise the final Care Plan to be taken before the Court within Care Proceedings. |
Post title: Service Manager Adele Lakey (Assessment & Intervention) Sarah Schofield (Disabled Childrens Service) Joanne Simpson (Assessment & Intervention) Faye Sykes (Assessment & Intervention) Theresa Racz (Duty & Advice) Rahila Habib (Children Looked After) Bev McClure (Care Leavers Service) |
Designated Manager (Care Proceedings)The manager who can authorise the initiating of Care Proceedings. |
Post title: Head of Service Post title: Head of Service Charlotte Jackson (Head of Kirklees Front Door & Assessment & Intervention North) Christine Bennett (Head of Assessment & Intervention South & Disabled Childrens Service) |
Designated Manager (Change of Name)The manager who can authorise the change of name of a Child in Care. |
Post title: Service Director Vicky Metheringham |
Designated Manager (Contact with Parents)The manager who can authorise the suspension or termination of contact between a Looked After child and his or her parents (subject to the Court's approval after 7 days for children on Emergency Protection Orders, Interim Care Orders or Care Orders). |
Post title: Head of Service Charlotte Jackson (Head of Kirklees Front Door & Assessment & Intervention North) Christine Bennett (Head of Assessment & Intervention South & Disabled Childrens Service) Joel Hanna (Head of Corporate Parenting) |
Designated Manager (Death or Serious Injury to a Child)The senior manager who should be notified in the event of death or serious injury to a child. |
Post title: Service Director Vicky Metheringham |
Designated Manager (Decision to Look After)The manager who can authorise a child becoming Looked After. |
Post title: Head of Service Charlotte Jackson (Head of Kirklees Front Door & Assessment & Intervention North) Christine Bennett (Head of Assessment & Intervention South & Disabled Childrens Service) Joel Hanna (Head of Corporate Parenting) |
Designated Manager (Emergency Protection Orders)The manager who can authorise an application for an Emergency Protection Order. |
Post title: Head of Service Charlotte Jackson (Head of Kirklees Front Door & Assessment & Intervention North) Christine Bennett (Head of Assessment & Intervention South & Disabled Childrens Service) Joel Hanna (Head of Corporate Parenting) |
Designated Manager (Emigration)The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked after child outside England and Wales. |
Post title: Service Director Vicky Metheringham |
Designated Manager (Exemptions and Extensions from Fostering Limit)The manager who can authorise any exemptions from the usual fostering limit for foster carers living in the local authority area. |
Post title: Head of Service Charlotte Jackson (Head of Kirklees Front Door & Assessment & Intervention North) Christine Bennett (Head of Assessment & Intervention South & Disabled Childrens Service) Joel Hanna (Head of Corporate Parenting) |
Designated Manager (External Placements)The manager who can authorise placements of Looked After children with external providers of residential care or foster carers from an independent fostering agency beyond 20 mmiles of Kirklees boundary. |
Post title: Service Director Vicky Metheringham |
Designated Manager (Fostering Panel Appointments)The manager who can authorise appointments to the Central List of Fostering Panel members |
Post title: Service Manager (Fostering) Anna Gledhill
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Designated Manager (Leaving Care)The manager who can approve a Pathway Plan. |
Post title: Team Manager (Care leaving service) Kirsty Wood Claire Parton Samina Haider |
Designated Manager (Marriage)The manager who can authorise the marriage of a Child in Care. |
Post title: Service Director Vicky Metheringham |
Designated Manager (Notifications)Where a Looked After Child from another local authority has been placed in the area, the manager to whom the notification should be sent. |
Post title: Business Support Manager (Fostering) Gareth Chalmers |
Designated Manager (Passports)The manager who can authorise a passport application for a Looked After child. |
Post title: Team Manager Various team managers across the Assessment & Intervention and Children Looked After Services. |
Designated Manager (Placement Orders)The manager who can authorise an application for a Placement Order. |
Post title: Service Manager Adele Lakey (Assessment & Intervention) Sarah Schofield (Disabled Childrens Service) Joanne Simpson (Assessment & Intervention) Faye Sykes (Assessment & Intervention) Theresa Racz (Youth Justice Service) Rahila Habib (Children Looked After) |
Designated Manager (Private Fostering)The manager who can approve assessments of private foster carers, impose requirements on private foster carers or decide to prohibit someone from acting as a private foster carer. |
Post title: Service Manager - Fostering Zoe Prince |
Designated Manager (Secure Accommodation)The manager who can authorise: A placement of a Looked After child in secure accommodation for up to 72 hours without a Secure Accommodation Order; and/or An application for a Secure Accommodation Order; and/or A child's continued secure placement on the recommendation of the Secure Accommodation Review Panel; and/or Applications to renewal Secure Accommodation Orders on the recommendation of the Secure Accommodation Review Panel. |
Post title: Service Director Vicky Metheringham |
Designated Manager (Special Guardianship)The manager who can authorise Special Guardianship as the permanence plan for a Looked After child. |
Post title: Service Manager Adele Lakey (Assessment & Intervention) Sarah Schofield (Disabled Childrens Service) Joanne Simpson (Assessment & Intervention) Faye Sykes (Assessment & Intervention) Theresa Racz (Youth Justice Service) Rahila Habib (Children Looked After) |
Designated Manager (Special Guardianship Support)The manager who can authorise the level of special guardianship support to be provided, including financial support to special guardians. |
Post title: Service Manager Adele Lakey (Assessment & Intervention) Sarah Schofield (Disabled Childrens Service) Joanne Simpson (Assessment & Intervention) Faye Sykes (Assessment & Intervention) Theresa Racz (Youth Justice Service) Rahila Habib (Children Looked After) |
Nominated Officer (Disruption of Education)The manager who can authorise the change of placement affecting a Looked After child in Key Stage 4. |
Post title: Service Manager (in consultation with Head of Virtual School) Rahila Habib (Service Manager CLA) Louise Hallas (Virtual School Head) |
Nominated Officer (Fostering for Adoption)The person who can authorise Fostering for Adoption. |
Post title: Service Director and One Adoption West Yorkshire Vicky Metheringham One Adoption West Yorkshire |
Nominated Officer (Out of Area Placements)The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked After child outside the area of the local authority. |
Post title: Head of Service Charlotte Jackson (Head of Kirklees Front Door & Assessment & Intervention North) Christine Bennett (Head of Assessment & Intervention South & Disabled Childrens Service) Joel Hanna (Head of Corporate Parenting) |
Nominated Officer (Immediate Placement of a Looked After Child with Connected Person)The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked After child with a family or friend ('Connected Person') who is not already approved as a foster carer. |
Post title: Head of Service Charlotte Jackson (Head of Kirklees Front Door & Assessment & Intervention North) Christine Bennett (Head of Assessment & Intervention South & Disabled Childrens Service) Joel Hanna (Head of Corporate Parenting) |
Nominated Officer (Placement of a Looked After Child subject to Care Order or Interim Care Order with Parents)The manager who can authorise the placement of a Looked After child with a parent, person with Parental Responsibility or person who held a Residence Order/Child Arrangements Order specifying with whom the child was to reside immediately before the Care Order. |
Post title: Head of Service Charlotte Jackson (Head of Kirklees Front Door & Assessment & Intervention North) Christine Bennett (Head of Assessment & Intervention South & Disabled Childrens Service) Joel Hanna (Head of Corporate Parenting) |
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