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November 2017

1. Policies, Values and Principles

1.1	Values and Principles
1.2	Legal Framework
1.3	Duties and Powers
1.4	Transfer and Allocation of Work between Children's Service Teams
1.5	Case Recording
1.6	Access to Records
1.7	Retention and Destruction of Records
1.8	Audit Policy

2. Referrals, Assessments and Planning

2.1	Children's Services Threshold Criteria for Children with Complex Needs (Children in Need)
2.2	Initial Contacts and Referrals
2.3	Strategy Discussion / Meeting
2.4	NARRATES (including NARRATES S46)
2.5	Child Protection Risk Action Plan
2.6	Transferring in and off Island when a Child is subject to a Child Protection Risk Action Plan
2.7	Step-up and Step-down (EHaS to and from Social Care Teams)
2.8	SoS Guidance on the Management of Child Protection Conferences

3. Court Proceedings

3.1	Applications for Emergency Protection Orders
3.2	Court Proceedings
3.3	Public Law Outline

4. Preventive and Supportive Services

4.1	Services for Children
4.2	Child with Complex Needs (CwCN) Plans and Reviews
4.3	Private Fostering
4.4	Disabled Children
4.5	Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
4.6	Family & Friends Care for those in Care and those who are not
4.7	Social Work Visits to Children with Complex Needs and Safety and Protection Needs

5. Planning for Looked After Children

5.1	Definition of Looked After Child and Guidance on Placements
5.2	Decision to Look After and Care Planning
5.3	Permanence Planning Guidance
5.4	Placement Planning and Disruption Meetings
5.5	CLA Plan Guidance
5.6	Special Guardianship Policy and Procedures

6. Placements for Looked After Children

6.1	Placements in Foster Care
6.2	Family & Friends Care
6.3	Placements in Residential Care
6.4	Placements in Secure Accommodation
6.5	Placements with Parents
6.6	Placements Off Island

7. Monitoring Placements

7.1	Social Worker Visits
7.2	Advocacy
7.3	Minimum Standards for Children’s Homes
7.4	Minimum Standards for Fostering

8. Reviews

8.1	Children Looked After Review Challenge
8.2	Secure Accommodation (Criteria) Reviews

9. Contact with Family and Friends

9.1	Contact with Parents and Siblings
9.2	Social Visits and Overnight Stays with Friends

10. Education, Leisure, Holidays and School Trips

10.1	Education of Looked After Children
10.2	Holidays and School/Organisational Trips on Island
10.3	Holidays and School/Organisational Trips off Island

11. Health and Wellbeing

11.1	Health Care Assessments and Health Care Plans
11.2	Drugs and Substance Misuse (Including Smoking)
11.3	Administration of Medication
11.4	GPs, Dentists and Opticians
11.5	Sexual Health
11.6	Self Harming

12. Restraint and Physical Intervention

12.1

Physical Intervention

13. Leaving Care and Transition to Adulthood

13.1	Leaving Care
13.2	Registration for National Insurance

14. Youth Justice Pre-Court and Court Work

14.1	The Youth Justice Team
14.2	Role of Appropriate Adult
14.3	Decision to Proceed
14.4	Preventative Work
14.5	Final Warning / Caution
14.6	Providing Court Services
14.7	Supporting Young People Prior to Sentence
14.8	Pre-Sentence Report
14.9	Orders and Sentences
14.10	Youth Justice Legal Framework

15. Youth Justice Case Management

15.1	Working with Young People Under Orders
15.2	Assessment and Planning
15.3	Intervention and Programs
15.4	Review and Closure
15.5	Working with Looked After Children and Young People

16. Complaints and Whistle-Blowing

16.1	Comments, Compliments and Complaints Procedure
16.2	Dealing with Complaints: Guidance to Staff
16.3	Confidential Reporting (Whistleblowing) Policy

17. Miscellaneous

17.1	Change of Name of a Looked After Child
17.2	Marriage of a Looked After Child
17.3	Activities
17.4	Transporting Children
17.5	Children and Families Reflexive Supervision Policy
17.6	Reflexive Supervision Exemplar
17.7	Protocol and Practice Guidance: The Assessment of Parents with Cognitive Limitations (learning disabilities)
17.8	Children and Families: Lone Working Policy and Procedures

18. Appendices

18.1	Local Contact
18.2	Standards for Youth Justice Team
18.3	Guidance to the Children and Young Persons Act 2001
18.4	Amendments

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