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- Child Protection Guidelines
- Managing Individual Cases
- Referral
- Following Initial Assessment
- Following Initial Assessment Flowchart
- No Further Children Services Involvement
- Feedback to Referrer
- No Significant Harm
- Actual or likely significant harm
- Strategy Discussion
- Social Worker Decides on Next Steps
- Decide What Services are Required
- In Depth Assessment Required
- Core Assessment
- Social Worker Coordinates Services
- Concerns About Child’s Immediate Safety
- Service Provision
- Review Case
- Urgent Action
- After the Strategy Discussion
- Strategy Discussion Flowchart
- Strategy Discussion
- No Further Children’s Services Involvement
- Core Assessment
- Police Investigate Possible Crime
- No further local authority support
- Initiate Enquiries into Significant Harm
- No Harm but in Need
- Convene Child Protection Conference
- Child Protection Conference
- Child at Risk of Significant Harm
- Agree Plan for Ensuring Child’s Safety
- Child at Continuing Risk of Significant Harm
- Child not at Continuing Risk of Significant Harm
- Further Decisions Made About Service Provision
- After the Child Protection Conference
- Single Agency Procedures
- Armed Forces
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Children’s Social Care
- Community Nursing Staff
- Community Safety
- Dentists
- GPs
- Health Visitors, School Nurses and Midwives
- Hospital Staff
- Other Health Professionals
- Primary Care Staff
- Police
- Probation
- CYPS Education Services – Schools
- Urban Regeneration Including Leisure Centres and Housing
- Voluntary Organisations
- Youth Offending Service
- Allegations Against Staff
- Who Should Use These Procedures
- Backround Information
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Recognising an Allegation
- Police Response
- Children’s Social Care Response
- Consideration by Senior Manager and LADO
- Strategy Discussion and Initial Evaluation Discussion
- Strategy Meeting
- Reviewing Progress
- Resignations and Compromise Arrangements
- Disciplinary Consideration
- Timescales
- Sharing Information for Disciplinary Purposes
- Record Keeping
- Monitoring Progress
- Unfounded Allegations
- Referral to the Independant Safeguarding Authority or Regulatory Body
- Further Guidance on Child Protection
- Child Abuse and the Internet
- Children and Sexual Exploitation
- Children Missing from Home
- Children Living Away from Home
- Children who are Adopted or Placed for Adoption
- Complex Cases
- Dangerous Dogs
- Domestic Violence
- Fabricated or Induced Illness
- Female Genital Mutilation
- Forced Marriage
- Forced Marriage Act – One year on
- Legal Protocol for Serious Injuries
- Medical Examinations
- Private Fostering
- Serious Case Reviews
- Safe Care
- Sex Offender Management
- Sexually Active Young People
- Substance Misuse
- When to Suspect Child Maltreatment
- Working Together to Safeguard Children
- Appendices
- 10 Common Pitfalls
- Accommodation
- Capacity
- Case Recording
- Child’s Voice
- Core Groups
- Child Abuse Definitions
- Child Assessment Orders
- Complaints about Conferences
- Dealing with Neglect
- Emergency Protection Orders
- Emergency Protection Orders – Warrants
- Information Sharing
- Introduction to the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board
- Parental Responsibility
- Police Protection
- Prohibited Steps Order
- Role of the Chair of Child Protection Conference
- Sexual Offences Act 2003
- Significant Harm
- Signs and Symptoms of Possible Child Abuse
- The Continuum of Need
- Working with Interpreters and Signers
- Managing Individual Cases
- Think Family Policies and Procedures
- Context
- Responding to Children in Need of Support
- Common Processes
- The Procedure
- Meetings Guidance
- Timescales
- Monitoring the Child in Need System
- Complaints and Compliments
- Escalation Procedures
- Case Transfer
- Appendices
- A. Continuum of Need
- B. Continuum of Need – Guidance
- C. Child in Need Documentation Flowchart
- D. Multi Agency Consent Form
- E. Consultation Form
- F. Pre-assessment Checklist
- G. Common Assessment Framework
- H. Child in Need Meeting Checklist
- I. Report for Invited Professionals
- J. Child in Need Plan
- K.Child in Need Plan (Review)
- L. Report for a Safeguarding Meeting
- M. Agreement for Monitoring
- N. Child in Need Audit Form
- O. Common Assessment/Child in Need Pathway
- Q. Standard Letter – Child/Young Person
- R. Standard Letter – Professional
- S. Standard Letter – Parent
- T. Protocol for De-registration
- U. Child in Need Visiting Proforma
- Working Together 2013
- Summary
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Assessing need and providing help
- Chapter 2: Organisational responsibilities
- Section 11 of the Children Act 2004
- Individual organisational responsibilities
- Schools and colleges
- Early years and childcare
- Health services
- Police
- Adult social care services
- Housing authorities
- British Transport Police
- Prison service
- Probation service
- The secure estate for children
- Youth Offending Teams
- The United Kingdom Border Agency
- Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service
- Armed Services
- Voluntary and private sectors
- Faith Organisations
- Chapter 3: Local Safeguarding Children Boards
- Chapter 4: Learning and improvement framework
- Chapter 5: Child death reviews
- Responsibilities of Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs)
- Specific responsibilities of relevant bodies in relation to child deaths
- Providing information to the Department for Education
- Responsibilities of Child Death Overview Panels
- Definition of preventable child deaths
- Action by professionals when a child dies unexpectedly
- Appendix A: Glossary
- Appendix B: Statutory framework
- Appendix C: Further sources of information
- Child Protection Guidelines
- User Guide
- Search
- Contact
- Research papers
