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Manual Contents

Parts

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

1. All Children

1.1	Policies Values and Principles
1.1.1	Policies, Values and Principles
1.2	Referrals, Assessments and Planning
1.2.1	Children's Social Care Thresholds and Practice Standards
1.2.2	The Role of the Referral and Assessment Service
1.2.3	Initial Assessments
1.2.4	Core Assessments (Including Section 47 Enquiries)
1.2.5	Universal Assessments Guidance
1.2.6	Intensive Case Support Panel
1.2.7	Integrated Children's System Guidance
1.2.8	Home Visits to Children in Need and Children with a Child Protection Plan
1.2.9	Family and Friends as Carers Guidance
1.3	Court Proceedings
1.3.1	Applications for Emergency Protection Orders
1.3.2	Protocol with Legal Services including Legal Planning Meetings
1.3.3	Public Law Outline
1.4	Safeguarding Children
1.4.1	Death of, or Serious Injury to, Child in Community or Child in Care
1.4.2	Activities
1.4.3	Transport Policy & Procedure for Looked After Children, Children in Need and Fostering
1.4.4	Protocol for Supporting Disabled Adults in their Parenting Role
1.4.5	Guidance in Relation to Hospital Discharge Planning Meetings
1.4.6	Receiving Notifications for Looked After Children Placed by Other Local Authorities in Coventry
1.5	Complaints and Whistle-Blowing
1.5.1	Complaints Procedure
1.5.2	Whistle-Blowing Procedure
1.6	Allocation of Work
1.6.1	Role and Expectations of Allocated Workers
1.6.2	Role of Emergency Duty Team
1.6.3	Allocation of Work and Transfer Protocol
1.6.4	Closure of Cases and Re-referrals
1.7	Staff Supervision
1.7.1	Children’s Services Supervision Policy	New
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	Child in Need Plans and Reviews
2.2	Private Fostering
2.3	Section 17 Payments
2.4	Intensive Family Support Service
2.5	Family Group Conference Service
2.5.1	Family Group Conference Service
2.5.2	Practice Standards for Family Group Conferences

3. Looked After Services

3.1	Planning for Children Looked After
3.1.1	Decision to Look After and Care Planning
3.1.2	Care Plans Guidance
3.1.3	Permanency Planning: Panel Processes	New
3.1.4	Permanency Panel Arrangements	New
3.1.5	Permanence Planning Guidance
3.1.6	Life Story Book Guidance
3.1.7	Placement Planning and Disruption Meetings
3.2	Placements
3.2.1	Placements in Foster Care	Updated
3.2.2	Placements with Family and Friends (Regulation 38 Placements)
3.2.3	Placements in Residential Care
3.2.4	Placements in Secure Accommodation
3.2.5	Placements with Parents
3.2.6	Placements Outside England and Wales
3.2.7	Youth Justice Board Protocol for Court Ordered Secure Remands (July 2010)	New
	Also see Receiving Notifications for Looked After Children Placed by Other Local Authorities in Coventry
3.3	Monitoring Placements
3.3.1	Social Worker Visits
3.3.2	Advocacy and Independent Visitors
3.4	Reviews
3.4.1	Looked After Reviews
3.4.2	Conflict Resolution for Independent Reviewing Officers - TO FOLLOW
3.4.3	Secure Accommodation (Criteria) Reviews
3.5	Contact Family and Friends
3.5.1	Contact including Supervised Contact Policy and Procedure	Updated
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
3.6.2	Holidays and School/Organisational Trips in the UK
3.6.3	Holidays and School/Organisational Trips Outside the UK
3.6.4	Leisure and Activities
3.7	Health and Wellbeing
3.7.1	Health Care Assessments and Health Care Plans
3.7.2	Drugs and Substance Misuse (Including Smoking)
3.7.3	Administration of Medication
3.7.4	GP's Dentists and Opticians
3.7.5	Relationships and Sex Education
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
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 Interventions
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
3.10.4	Children Missing from Care
3.11	Foster Carers
3.11.1	Fostering Panel
3.11.2	Assessment and Approval of Foster Carers
3.11.3	Limit on Number of Children in Foster Homes
3.11.4	Persons Disqualified from Fostering
3.11.5	Supervision of Foster Carers
3.11.6	Review of Foster Carers
3.12	Leaving Care and Transition to Adulthood
3.12.1	Leaving Care Process Flowchart
3.12.2	Financial Support for Care Leavers
3.12.3	Registration for National Insurance
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 Fund

4.Adoption and Permanence

4.1	Adoption
4.1.1	Adoption Panel
4.1.2	The Role of Agency Adviser to Adoption Panel Protocol
4.1.3	Assessment and Approval of Prospective Adopters
4.1.4	Placement for Adoption	Updated
4.1.5	Adoption Support
4.1.6	Monitoring and Supervision of Adoptive Placements
4.1.7	Adoption Reviews	Updated
4.1.8	Disruption of Adoptive Placements
4.1.9	Allegations Against Prospective Adopters
4.1.10	Inter-Country 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
4.2	Other Permanence Options
4.2.1	Applications for Special Guardianship Orders
4.3	Guidance
4.3.1	Court Reports in Adoption/Special Guardianship

5. Children in Specific Circumstances

5.1	Children from Abroad
5.1.1	Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children - Regional Guidance
5.2	Children with Disability
5.2.1	Children's Disability Team
5.2.2	Transition Protocol
5.2.3	Inter Agency Transition Policy - Children with Statements
5.3	Homeless Children and Families
5.3.1	Homeless Children
5.3.2	Protocol with Housing re Homeless 16 and 17 year olds
5.3.3	Out of Hours Duties to Provide Emergency Accommodation to Homeless People

6. Appendices

6.1	Local Keywords
6.2	Designated Managers
6.3	Local Contacts	Updated
6.4	Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010

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