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    • Managing Individual Cases
      • Referral
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        • Prohibited Steps Order
        • Decide what services are required
        • Relevant Agency Sees Child
        • In Depth Assessment Required
        • Core Groups
        • Core Assessment
        • Child in Need
        • Agree a Plan
        • Social Worker Co-ordinates Services
        • Review Case
      • Interviewing Children
        • Preparation
        • Consent
        • Other people at interview
        • Competency
        • Recording
        • Debriefing
      • Section 47 enquiries
        • Strategy Discussion
        • Police investigate possible crime
        • Initiate enquiries into significant harm
        • Convene child protection conference
        • Child protection conference
        • Child at risk of significant harm
        • Agree plan for ensuring child’s safety
        • Further decisions made about service provision
      • Child Protection Conference
        • Advice for professionals at a conference
        • Preparing for a child protection conference
        • Role of the chair of child protection conference
        • Agenda
        • Attendance
        • Minutes
        • Decisions
        • Plans
        • Child is subject of child protection plan
        • After the child protection conference
        • Core groups: tensions and challenges
        • First child protection review conference
        • Some concerns about harm
      • Children with Disabilities
    • Policies
      • Accommodation
      • Elective Home Education
      • Escalation Policy
      • Principles for Joint Working Across Adult and Children’s Services
      • Representations and complaints by children and/or parents/carers about child protection conferences
      • Sharing Information About Children
      • Sudden Unexpected Deaths in Childhood
      • Unborn Baby Protocol
      • Working Across Boundaries
    • Further guidance on child protection
      • Complex Cases
      • Disabled Children and Child Protection
      • Child Assessment Orders
      • Child Death
      • Child’s Voice
      • Competency
      • Concealed Pregnancy Guidance
      • E-Safety
      • Elective Home Education
      • Exploitation and Trafficking of Children
      • Female Genital Mutilation
      • Forced Marriage
      • Investigating organised abuse
      • Missing Children
      • Parental Responsibility
      • Police Powers of Protection
      • Private Fostering Arrangements
      • Signs and Symptoms of Possible Child Abuse
      • Spirit Possession
      • Substance Misuse
      • Suicide and Suicide Attempts
      • Supporting Individuals Vulnerable to Recruitment by Violent Extremists
      • Weapons (Guns, Knives and Knife Crime)
      • Working with Uncooperative Families
      • Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation
        • Children Facing Sexual Exploitation
        • Presentation on Human Trafficking
        • Sexually Active Young People
        • Women Who Sexually Abuse
        • Young People Who Sexually Abuse
    • Safer Recruitment
    • Allegations against staff
      • Introduction
      • Allegation made or suspicion arisen
      • Action by designated senior manager
      • LADO to be informed
      • Allegation made to police or social care
      • Consideration between LADO and manager
      • No further action
      • Allegation is unsubstantiated
      • Allegation is a possible disciplinary matter
      • Considering suspension
      • Child at risk of significant harm
      • LADO refers to social care for strategy discussion
      • May constitute criminal offence
      • No social care or police investigation
      • Allegation in staff’s personal lives
      • Referral to the Independent Safeguarding Authority
      • Case Conclusion
      • Record Keeping
      • Information Sharing and Confidentiality
    • Useful Resources
      • 10 Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
      • Dealing with Neglect
      • Fabricated Illness
      • Gang Activity
      • Interpreters
      • Promoting and Improving High Quality Assessment, Planning, Intervention and Review (APIR) Practice
      • Sexual Offences Act 2003
      • Welfare Visits
      • Working with Interpreters
    • Serious Case Reviews
      • A guide for conducting Serious Case Reviews
      • Serious Case Reviews – Introduction
        • Referral
        • The Purpose of Serious Case Reviews
        • Criteria for Undertaking a Serious Case Review
        • General Principles for Case Reviews
        • Conducting a Case Review: the process
        • Appendix 1
        • Appendix 2
        • Appendix 3
        • Appendix 4
    • Working Together 2010
      • Working Together 1.25
      • Working Together 1.28-1.31
      • Working Together 5.31
      • Working Together 5.33
      • Working Together 5.35
      • Working Together 5.47
      • Working Together 5.49
      • Working Together 5.51
      • Working Together 5.54
      • Working Together 5.56
      • Working Together 5.57
      • Working Together 5.59
      • Working Together 5.60
      • Working Together 5.61
      • Working Together 5.67
      • Working Together 5.69
      • Working Together 5.70
      • Working Together 5.71
      • Working Together 5.72
      • Working Together 5.73
      • Working Together 5.78
      • Working Together 5.82
      • Working Together 5.83
      • Working Together 5.84
      • Working Together 5.85
      • Working Together 5.86
      • Working Together 5.87
      • Working Together 5.116
      • Working Together 11.74-11.78
    • Working Together 2013
      • Summary
      • Introduction
        • A child-centred and co-ordinated approach to safeguarding
      • Chapter 1: Assessing need and providing help
        • Early help
          • Identifying children and families who would benefit from early help
          • Effective assessment of the need for early help
          • Provision of effective early help services
        • Accessing help and services
        • Information sharing
        • Assessments under the Children Act 1989
          • The purpose of assessment
          • The principles and parameters of a good assessment
            • Focusing on the needs and views of the child
            • Developing a clear analysis
            • Focusing on outcomes
            • Timeliness
        • Local protocols for assessment
        • Processes for managing individual cases
      • 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
        • Statutory objectives and functions of LSCBs
        • LSCB membership
        • LSCB Chair, accountability and resourcing
        • Information sharing
      • Chapter 4: Learning and improvement framework
        • Principles for learning and improvement
        • Serious Case Reviews
        • National panel of independent experts on Serious Case Reviews
      • 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
        • Table A: Bodies and individuals covered by key duties
      • Appendix C: Further sources of information
      • Appendix C: Further sources of information
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Section 47 enquiries

  • Strategy Discussion
  • Police investigate possible crime
  • Initiate enquiries into significant harm
  • Convene child protection conference
  • Child protection conference
  • Child at risk of significant harm
  • Agree plan for ensuring child’s safety
  • Further decisions made about service provision

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