3.1.1 Child and Young Person's Plan |
AMENDMENTS
This Chapter was substantially amended in May 2009, please read the whole chapter.
It relates to Child/Young Person's Plan (previously known as Child in Need Plan).
It should be read in conjunction with the Guidance on the Relationship between Children's Social Care, Common Assessment Arrangements and the Team Around the Child
| 1. | Where an Assessment indicates the need for ongoing support and provision of services, a Child/Young Person's Plan should be completed either following telephone discussion with those concerned, or, in more complex cases, following a Child in Need Planning Meeting to which parents/carers, relevant partner agencies, and the child/young person (if appropriate) will be invited. |
| 2. | If following an Initial Assessment, services under section 17 Children Act 1989 are to be provided an Initial Assessment plan should be created for each Child or Young person receiving a service (see section 2.1 C&F procedures for additional guidance on plans). The Initial Assessment Initial Plan forms the last three pages of the Initial Assessment exemplar. |
| 3. | If services continue to be provided by, or on behalf of, Children's Specialist Services for more than three months then this Initial Assessment initial plan must be reviewed and if services will continue after this Child in Need plan review then a full Child/Young Person's plan will be required. |
| 4. | In most situations there should only be one operational plan at any one time (the only current exception is that it is possible to have both a LAC Care Plan and a Pathway Plan open at the same time). This is a particular issue for children who have both respite care and additional Children in Need services. This problem will be fixed in a later version of ICS, until that time record the Looked after Child plan in Swift. |
| 5. | The Department for Education expect a Child/Young Person's plan to be explicit so that families and children know what is intended to meet their needs and when services or actions should happen - plans should be: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time related. |
| 6. | It is the social workers responsibility to co-ordinate the plan, to monitor progress against the agreed objectives and to maintain contact with all involved in implementing the plan. |
| 7. | If the Lead Professional identified to co-ordinate the plan is not the Local Authority social worker, Children's Social Care will allocate a named contact worker whose responsibilities are as follows:
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| 8. | Children's Social Care will ensure that the Child/Young Person's Plan is kept under review and that a formal review is held. Reviews should take place on a regular basis. |
| 9. | The outcome of a Review may be that the child is no longer a Child in Need, resulting in a recommendation that the case be closed within Children's Social Care, or that the child continues to be a Child in Need, resulting in the continuing provision of services and amendment and redistribution of the Plan. Where the case is closed in Children's Social Care, see section 5, Step Down Procedure in Guidance on the Relationship between Children's Social Care, Common Assessment Arrangements and the Team Around the Child |
| 10. | For transfer of Family Support cases from Assessment to Care Management teams see Transfer of Cases Procedure. |
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