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October 2011

Manual Parts

1. All Children
2. Education
3. Preventative Services
4. Looked After Services
5. Children in Specific Circumstances
6. Guidance and Protocols
7. Appendices

1. All Children

1.1	Values and Principles
1.1.1	Policies, Values and Principles
1.1.2	Children's Strategic Partnership
1.1.3	Children in Need Allocation Policy	New
1.1.4	Family and Friends Policy	New
1.2	Assessment and Planning
1.2.1	Guidance on the Relationship between Children’s Social Care, Common Assessment Arrangements and the Team Around the Child
1.2.2	Enquiries and Referrals of Children in Need
1.2.3	Initial and Core Assessments and Planning
1.3	Health Care and Safeguarding Children
1.3.1	Dudley Safeguarding Children Board
1.3.2	Substance Use and Misuse
1.3.3	HIV and AIDS
1.3.4	Self Harming
1.3.5	Death of or Serious Illness/Injury in Relation to a Child in Need
1.3.6	Missing Children
1.3.7	Internet Security
1.3.8	Young People and Sexual Relationships Policy	New
1.4	Representations, Complaints and Confidential Reporting
1.4.1	Representations and Complaints Procedure
1.4.2	Confidential Reporting Procedure
1.4.3	Subject Access to Records - To Follow
1.4.4	Managing Difficult Relationships between Social Care Staff and Service Users
1.5	Human Resources
1.5.1	Staff Supervision (including PRDI forms and A - B Progression)
1.5.2	Guidance on Lone Working/Violence
1.6	Miscellaneous
1.6.1	Emergency Duty Team
1.6.2	Children's Transport and Activities
1.6.3	Transfer of Cases
1.6.4	Housing and Special Cases Procedure
1.6.5	Provision of Accommodation for Homeless 16 and 17 year olds
1.7	Care Proceedings
1.7.1	Public Law Outline Information and Guidance
1.8	Family Group Conferences
1.8.1	Family Group Conferences Referral Procedure
1.8.2	Family Group Conferences Referral Form
1.8.3	Family Group Conferences – Guidance

2. Education

2.1	Education Procedures
2.1.1	Nursery, Primary and Secondary School Admissions
2.1.2	Home to School Transport
2.1.3	Education of Looked After Children	Updated
2.1.4	Mid-term Change of School for Looked After Children

3. Preventative Services

3.1	Preventative Services
3.1.1	Child and Young Person's Plan
3.1.2	Private Fostering
3.1.3	Process of Referral: Family Assessment Centre	Updated
3.1.4	Family Assessment Centre - Statement of Purpose
3.1.5	Family and Adolescent Support Team - Statement of Purpose
3.1.6	Flip-side Complaints and Compliments

4. Looked After Services

4.1	Looked After Services
4.1.1	Route Map for Looked After Children	Updated
4.1.2	Decision to Look After a Child (Care and Permanence Planning)	Updated
4.1.3	The Sufficiency Duty in relation to Accommodation for Looked After Children	New
4.2	Placements
4.2.1	Placements in Foster Care (within the Borough)	Updated
4.2.2	Placements in Children's Homes (within the Borough)	Updated
4.2.3	Placement with Parents	Updated
4.2.4	Family and Friends (Connected Persons) Fostering	Updated
4.2.5	Placements outside England and Wales
4.2.6	Placements for Adoption	Updated
4.2.7	Placements in Secure Accommodation	Updated
4.2.8	External Placements	Updated
4.2.9	Placements in Independent Fostering Agencies – Meeting the Requirements of Regulations 22 and 26 of the Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010	Updated
4.2.10	Placement of Last Resort (POLR)
4.3	Meetings and Reviews
4.3.1	Placement Planning Meeting	Updated
4.3.2	Looked After Reviews	Updated
4.3.3	Secure Accommodation Reviews
4.3.4	Appointment and Role of the Independent Reviewing Officer	New
4.4	Behaviour Management
4.4.1	Sanctions
4.4.2	Absent/Missing Children (Looked After)	Updated
4.4.3	Restrictive Physical Intervention	Updated
4.5	Holidays, Recreation and Activities
4.5.1	Holidays in Term Time for Looked After Children – Policy
4.5.2	Holidays in Term Time for Looked After Children – Procedure
4.5.3	Passports, Holidays and School Trips Outside the UK
4.5.4	Leisure and Recreation
4.5.5	School Trips within the UK
4.5.6	Pocket Money
4.5.7	Internet Safety Policy for Looked After Children	Updated
4.6	Family Contacts, Visitors and Friends
4.6.1	Contact with Parents and Siblings
4.6.2	Overnight Stays and Contact with Relatives and Friends
4.7	Foster Carers
	Fostering Services National Minimum Standards
4.7.1	Fostering Panel Policy	Updated
4.7.2	Fostering Panel Procedure	Updated
4.7.3	Assessment and Approval of Foster Carers	Updated
4.7.4	Limit on the Number of Children in Foster Homes
4.7.5	Persons Disqualified from Fostering	Updated
4.7.6	Review of Foster Carers
4.7.7	Supervision of Foster Carers	Updated
4.7.8	Managing Allegations, Concerns and Complaints against Foster Carers	New
	Bedroom Sharing in Foster Care
4.7.9	Foster Carer Bedroom Occupancy Policy Statement	New
4.7.10	Foster Carer Bedroom Occupancy Recruitment Policy	New
4.7.11	Bedroom Sharing Guidance	New
4.7.12	Guidance on Risk Assessing Bedroom Arrangements for Looked After Children Living in Foster Care	New
4.8	Health and Wellbeing
4.8.1	Health Care Assessments and Health Care Plans	Updated
4.8.2	First Aid, Home Remedies and Prescribed Medicines
4.8.3	General Practitioners, Dentists and Opticians
4.8.4	Invasive Procedures
4.8.5	Sexual Health and Relationships
4.9	Incidents
4.9.1	Contacting the Police
4.9.2	Countering of Bullying
4.9.3	Notifiable Events	Updated
4.10	Achieving Permanence
	Adoption National Minimum Standards
4.10.1	Achieving Permanency Policy
4.10.2	Guidance on Permanency Planning
4.10.3	Adoption Panel Policy	Updated
4.10.4	Assessment and Approval of Agency Adoptive Parents	Updated
4.10.5	Assessment and Approval of Inter-Country Adoptive Parents
4.10.6	Adoption Case Records	Updated
4.10.7	Adopted Persons' Access to Birth Records and Adoption Case Records	Updated
4.10.8	Adoption Support Services
4.10.9	Monitoring and Supervision of Adoptive Placements	Updated
4.10.10	Intermediary Services
4.10.11	Review of Adoptive Placements
4.10.12	Disruption of Adoptive Placements
4.10.13	Non Agency Adoptive Placements
4.10.14	Special Guardianship
4.10.15	Independent Service for Birth Relatives
4.11	Leaving Care
4.11.1	Leaving the Looked After Service	Updated
4.11.2	Responsibilities of the Local Authority to Former Looked After Children and Young People in Custody	New
4.12	Monitoring Quality
4.12.1	Social Worker Visits	Updated
4.12.2	Regulation 33 Visits
4.12.3	Looked After Children in Contact with Youth Justice Services	New
4.13	Privacy and Personal Care
4.13.1	Children's Bedrooms	Updated
4.13.2	Searching Children and their Belongings
4.13.3	Hair and Skin Care
4.13.4	Physical Contact and Intimate Care
4.13.5	Spiritual Development
4.13.6	Correspondence: Telephones, Mobile 'Phones and Letters
4.13.7	Tattooing and Body Piercing Policy
4.14	Protection and Advocacy
4.14.1	Advocacy and Independent Visitors	Updated
4.15	Miscellaneous
4.15.1	Change of Name of a Looked After Child
4.15.2	Marriage of a Looked After Child
4.15.3	Request for Financial Support for Psychological Assessment
4.15.4	Child Trust Fund	Updated
4.15.5	Case Records for Looked After Children	New

5. Children in Specific Circumstances

5.1	Children with Disabilities
5.1.1	Carers Direct
5.1.2	Direct Payments	Updated
5.1.3	Children with Disabilities Team Criteria
5.1.4	Disability Living Allowance
5.1.5	Transition Planning: A Strategy for Disabled Young People – Moving from Childhood into Adulthood in Dudley	Updated
5.1.6	Short Breaks	New
5.1.7	Safeguarding Disabled Children Practice Guidance	New
5.2	Miscellaneous
5.2.1	Criminal Injuries Compensation
5.2.2	Young Carers
5.2.3	Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children – Information about the Home Office’s Solihull Active Review Team, Asylum Team Midlands

6. Guidance and Protocols

6.1	Safeguarding Guidance
6.1.1	Countering Bullying
6.1.2	Incidents - General
6.1.3	Personal Relationships and Sexual Health Policy for Children and Young People Looked After
6.1.4	Developing Positive Relationships	Updated
6.2	Health and Wellbeing Guidance
6.2.1	Consents
6.2.2	First Aid, Home Remedies and Prescribed Medicines
6.2.3	HIV/AIDS
6.2.4	Medical Consents: Children Looked After
6.3	Assessment, Planning and Reviews Guidance
6.3.1	Care Plan Guidance	Updated
6.3.2	Children's Review Guidance	Updated
6.3.3	Assessing Prospective Foster Carers	Updated
6.3.4	Role of Agency Advisers to Adoption Panel	Updated
6.3.5	Placement Prioritisation Criteria	Updated
6.3.6	Secure Accommodation Reviews
6.3.7	Trans - racial Fostering Placements	New
6.4	Miscellaneous Guidance
6.4.1	Change of Name of a Looked After Child
6.4.2	Code of Practice for Social Care Staff
6.4.3	Court Reports in Adoption/Special Guardianship Cases
6.4.4	Education of Looked After Children	Updated
6.4.5	Insurance Claims by Carers
6.4.6	Prevention and Intervention
6.4.7	Supervision of Foster Carers	Updated
6.4.8	Pooled Budgets

7. Appendices

7.1	Appendices
7.1.1	Designated Managers
7.1.2	Local Contacts
7.1.3	Local Keywords
7.1.4	Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010
7.1.5	Quick Reference Guide

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