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Manual Version, September 2011

1. Introduction to the Manual
2. Family Support - Assessment and Planning
3. Service Provision and Reviews - Children in Need (Who are Not Looked After)
4. Services to Looked After Children
5. Generic
6. Guidance
7. Appendices

1. Introduction to the Manual

1.1	Children's Policy, Values and Principles
1.2	Family and Friends Care Policy

2. Family Support - Assessment and Planning

2.1	Initial Contacts and Referrals
2.2	Initial Assessments
2.3	Strategy Discussions
2.4	Core Assessments
2.5	Court Proceedings - to follow
2.6	Decision to Look After	Updated
2.7	Post Placement Arrangements
2.8	Permanence Planning for Looked After Children
2.9	Children Missing from Home
2.10	Pre Birth Assessments - to follow
2.11	Short Breaks	New

3. Service Provision and Reviews - Children in Need (Who are Not Looked After)

3.1	Plans and Reviews
3.1.1	Child in Need Plans and Reviews
3.2	Services for Children in Need
3.2.1	Eligibility Criteria for Short Break and Social Care Services for Disabled Children
3.2.2	Asylum Seekers - to follow
3.2.3	Financial Assistance to Children in Need
3.2.4	Children in Need - Relative Carers and Allowances
3.2.5	Private Fostering
3.2.6	Residence Order Allowances

4. Services to Looked After Children

4.1	Services to Looked After Children
4.1.1	Route Map for Looked After Children
4.1.2	The Sufficiency Duty in Relation to Accommodation for Looked After Children	Updated
4.2	Placements
4.2.1	Emergency Placements	Updated
4.2.2	Placements in Foster Care
4.2.3	Placements in Residential Care	Updated
4.2.4	Placements in Secure Accommodation	Updated
4.2.5	Placement with Parents	Updated
4.2.6	Placements with Connected Persons	Updated
4.2.7	Placement in Supported Housing/Lodgings	Updated
4.2.8	Placements Outside England and Wales
4.2.9	Out of Area Placements	Updated
4.3	Reviews
4.3.1	Emergency Reviews	Updated
4.3.2	Looked After Reviews
4.3.3	Placement Plan Reviews	Updated
4.3.4	Secure Accommodation (Criteria) Review
4.3.5	Looked After Children and Young People in Contact with Youth Justice Services	New
4.4	Behaviour Management
4.4.1	Absent Children	Updated
4.4.2	Behaviour Management Plans	Updated
4.4.3	Physical Intervention	Updated
4.4.4	Sanctions
4.5	Education of Looked After Children
4.5.1	Education of Looked After Children	Updated
4.6	Recreation and Activity
4.6.1	Holidays and School/Organisational Trips Outside the UK
4.6.2	Holidays and School/Organisational Trips Inside the UK
4.6.3	Leisure and Recreation
4.7	Health and Wellbeing
4.7.1	Death of or Serious Injury to a Looked After Child
4.7.2	Drugs and Substance Misuse
4.7.3	First Aid, Home Remedies and Prescribed Medicines
4.7.4	General Practitioners, Dentists and Opticians
4.7.5	Health Care Assessments and Health Care Plans	Updated
4.7.6	Infestations
4.7.7	Self Harming
4.7.8	HIV/AIDS
4.7.9	Nutrition and Diet
4.7.10	Sexual Health
4.8	Family Contacts, Visitors and Friends
4.8.1	Contact with Parents and Siblings
4.8.2	Contact with Relatives and Friends (including overnight stays)
4.9	Foster Carers
4.9.1	Assessment and Approval of Foster Carers
4.9.2	Fostering Panel
4.9.3	Limit on the Number of Children in Foster Homes
4.9.4	Persons Disqualified from Fostering
4.9.5	Review of Foster Carers
4.9.6	Supervision of Foster Carers
4.9.7	Training of Foster Carers
4.9.8	Allegations against Foster Carers
4.9.9	Foster Carers and Babysitters
4.10	Adoption
4.10.1	Assessment and Approval of Adopters
4.10.2	Adoption Panel
4.10.3	Placement for Adoption
4.10.4	Supervision of Adoptive Placements
4.10.5	Adoption Case Records
4.10.6	Access to Birth Records and Adoption Case Records
4.10.7	Review of Adoptive Placement
4.10.8	Adoption Support
4.10.9	Disruption of Placement
4.10.10	Intermediary Services
4.10.11	Procedure for Prospective Adopters Attending Panel
4.10.12	Non Agency Adoptions
4.10.13	Safeguarding Children Placed for Adoption and Children
4.10.14	Arrangements for Children's Guardians to Attend Meetings of the Adoption Panel
4.10.15	Court Reports in Adoption/Special Guardianship
4.11	Leaving Care
4.11.1	Leaving Care
4.11.2	Leaving Care Finance - to follow
4.11.3	Leaving Care Policy and Guidance
4.11.4	Young People Presenting as Homeless to the 16+ Team
4.11.5	Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
4.11.6	Responsibilities of the Local Authority to Former Looked After Children and Young People in Custody	New
4.12	Incidents
4.12.1	Barricading
4.12.2	Contacting the Police
4.12.3	Countering of Bullying
4.12.4	Searching Children and their Belongings
4.13	Monitoring Quality
4.13.1	Social Worker Visits	Updated
4.13.2	Independent Visitors	Updated
4.13.3	Regulation 33 Visits
4.13.4	Advocacy	Updated
4.13.5	Appointment and Role of Independent Reviewing Officer	New
4.14	Privacy and Personal Care
4.14.1	Children's Bedrooms	Updated
4.14.2	Hair and Skin Care
4.14.3	Physical Contact and Intimate Care
4.14.4	Pocket Money and Allowances
4.14.5	Spiritual Development
4.14.6	Telephones, Mobile Phones and Letters
4.15	Miscellaneous
4.15.1	Change of Name
4.15.2	Marriage
4.15.3	Registration for National Insurance
4.15.4	Case Records for Looked After Children	New

5. Generic

5.1	Complaints and Representations
5.1.1	Social Care Complaints Procedure
5.1.2	Representation, Advocacy and Children's Rights
5.1.3	Managing Allegations against Staff, Carers and Volunteers working with Children and Young People 2008
5.1.4	Safeguarding Children in Education - Quick Reference Guide
5.2	Miscellaneous
5.2.1	Access to Case Records
5.2.2	Retention of Documentation and Destruction of Files
5.2.3	Activities and Transporting Children

6. Guidance

6.1	Guidance
6.1	Behaviour Management - Use of Restrictive Physical Intervention	Updated
6.2	Care Plans	Updated
6.3	Children in Need, Definition and Criteria
6.4	Children's Reviews Guidance	Updated
6.5	Consents
6.6	Countering Bullying
6.7	Education of Looked After Children	Updated
6.8	First Aid, Home Remedies and Prescribed Medicines
6.9	HIV/AIDS
6.10	Incidents - General	Updated
6.11	Initial and Core Assessments
6.12	Relative Carers	Updated
6.13	Leaving Care	Updated
6.14	Life Story Books
6.15	Nutrition, Diet and Mealtimes
6.16	Placement Plans
6.17	Private Foster Carers
6.18	Touch Guidance
6.19	Responding to Anti Social Behaviour by Children and Young People Aged Under 18 Years

7. Local Appendices

7.1	Designated Managers
7.2	Local Contact Details
7.3	Local Keywords

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