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Manual Version, September 2011

Parts

1. All Children
2. Services to Children in Need
3. Services to Looked After Children
4. Youth Offending
5. Guidance
6. Appendices

1. All Children

1.1	Introduction and Policy Framework
1.1.1	Introduction
1.1.2	Quick Guide
1.1.3	Children's Services Policy, Values and Principles	Updated
1.1.4	Lincolnshire County Council Safeguarding Children Policy
1.1.5	Children's Services Health and Safety Policy
1.1.6	Information Sharing Policy
1.1.7	Looked After Children Policy	Updated
1.1.8	Supported Living Policy	Updated
1.1.9	Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
1.1.10	Staying Put Policy	Updated
1.1.11	Kinship Care Policy	Updated
1.1.12	Matching Children with Foster Carers Policy
1.1.13	Safe Care Policy
1.1.14	Meeting the Needs of Children
1.1.15	Family and Friends Care Policy	New
1.2	Assessment and Planning
1.2.1	Initial Contact and Referrals
1.2.2	TAC and CAF Process
1.2.3	empty
1.2.4	empty
1.2.5	Initial Assessments
1.2.6	Strategy Discussions
1.2.7	Core Assessments
1.2.8	Public Law Outline (PLO) Applications to Court under Children Act 1989	Updated
1.2.9	Transfer and Allocation Procedure
1.2.10	Decision to Look After	Updated
1.2.11	Post Placement Arrangements
1.3	Case Records
1.3.1	Recording on the Child's Record (Under Review)
1.3.2	New Information on an Open Case
1.3.3	Assessment and Progress Record
1.3.4	Case Closure
1.3.5	Operational Management and Supervision Arrangement	Updated
1.3.6	Quality Audit Procedure
1.3.7	Access to Case Records (Under Review)
1.3.8	Retention of Documentation and Destruction of Files
1.3.9	Case Management Protocol (Children with Disabilities)
1.4	Complaints and Representations
1.4.1	Children's Services Complaints
1.4.2	Representation, Advocacy and Children's Rights
1.5	Miscellaneous
1.5.1	Children and Young People who are Missing
1.5.2	Activities and Transporting Children (Under Review)
1.5.3	Discontinuation of Child Protection Plan
1.5.4	Insurance Claims and Ex Gratia Payments
1.5.5	Children's Services Transport Procedure
1.5.6	Guidance on Determining Which Local Authority is Responsible for a Child

2. Services to Children in Need

2.1	Procedures
2.1.1	Child in Need Plans and Reviews
2.1.2	Child in Need Plans and Reviews for Children with Disability
2.13	Financial Assistance to Children in Need	New
2.14	Children in Need: Relative Carer Allowances
2.1.5	Private Fostering
2.1.6	Residence Order Procedure
2.1.7	Residence Order Payment Review
2.1.8	Residence Order Guidance
2.1.9	Short Term Care for Disabled Children
2.1.10	Family Group Conferences
2.2	Children with Disabilities
2.2.1	Direct Payments
2.2.2	Transitional Needs
2.2.3	4 All, Children Act Register (Children with Disabilities)

3. Services to Looked After Children

3.1	Placements
3.1.1	Emergency Foster Placement	Updated
3.1.2	Requesting a Foster Placement	Updated
3.1.3	Placements in Residential Care	Updated
3.1.4	Placements with Parents	Updated
3.1.5	Placements with Connected Person (formerly known as Regulation 38)	Updated
3.1.6	Parent and Child Foster Care Placement	New
3.1.7	Funding of Kinship Care Placements
3.1.8	Notification by Other Local Authorities of Children Placed within Lincolnshire
3.1.9	Notification to other Authorities of Children Placed Out of County
3.1.10	Secure Accommodation Procedure (Including Reviews)
3.1.11	Youth Justice Board Protocol for Secure Remands
3.2	Reviews
3.2.1	The Review of the Child's Plan for Looked After Children	Updated
3.2.2	The Review of the Placement Plan (Looked After Child)	Updated
3.2.3	Permanence Planning Procedure	Updated
3.2.4	Appointment and Role of Independent Reviewing Officers	New
3.3	Behaviour Management
3.3.1	Absent Children
3.3.2	Behaviour Management Plans
3.3.3	Physical Intervention
3.3.4	Sanctions
3.4	Education and Recreation
3.4.1	Personal Education Plans (PEP)	Updated
3.4.2	Holidays and School/Organisational Trips Outside the UK - to follow
3.4.3	Holidays and School/Organisational Trips Inside the UK - to follow
3.4.4	Leisure and Recreation
3.4.5	Hazardous Pursuits - to follow
3.5	Health and Wellbeing
3.5.1	Death or Serious Injury to a Looked After Child
3.5.2	Drugs and Substance Misuse - to follow
3.5.3	General Practitioners, Dentists and Opticians
3.5.4	Health Care Assessments and Health Care Plans	Updated
3.5.5	Infestations
3.5.6	Self Harming
3.5.7	HIV/AIDS
3.5.8	Nutrition and Diet
3.5.9	Sexual Health and Relationships Guidance
3.5.10	Child and Family Service, Looked After Children Service, Operational Policy
3.6	Family Contacts
3.6.1	Contact with Parents and Siblings	Updated
3.6.2	Contact with Relatives and Friends	Updated
3.6.3	Social Visits and Overnight Stays
3.6.4	Contact Services
3.6.5	Child Contact with Adult in Custody
3.6.6	Spending One-to-One Time Alone with Children (Residential)
3.7	Foster Carers
3.7.1	Assessment and Approval of Foster Carers	Updated
3.7.2	References and Checks Guidance	Updated
3.7.3	Fostering Panel	Updated
3.7.4	Limit on the Number of Children in a Foster Home, Exemptions and Extensions of Approval	Updated
3.7.5	Persons Disqualified from Fostering	Updated
3.7.6	Review of Foster Carers	Updated
3.7.7	Supervision of Foster Carers	Updated
3.7.8	Training of Foster Carers	Updated
3.7.9	Support for Foster Carers Facing Allegations	Updated
3.7.10	Risk Assessments when Placing Children in Foster Care
3.7.11	Managing Disruption in Task Centered Foster Placements
3.7.11	Staying Put Procedure	Updated
3.7.12	BAAF Guidance on Smoking in Family Placements
3.7.13	Whistleblowing - Foster Carers	New
3.8	Adoption and Special Guardianship
3.8.1	Special Guardianship Orders
3.8.2	Special Guardianship Payment Review
3.8.3	Assessment and Approval of Adopters	Updated
3.8.4	Adoption Panel
3.8.5	Placement for Adoption	Updated
3.8.6	Supervision of Adoptive Placements
3.8.7	Adoption Case Records
3.8.8	Access to Birth and Adoption Case Records
3.8.9	Review of Adoptive Placements
3.8.10	Adoption Support
3.8.11	Disruption of Placement
3.8.12	Intermediary Services
3.8.13	Prospective Adopters Attending Panel
3.8.14	Non Agency Adoptions
3.8.15	Arrangements for Children's Guardians to attend meetings of the Adoption Panel
3.8.16	Court Reports in Adoption/Special Guardianship
3.8.17	Inter Country Adoption
3.8.18	Direct Placement Scheme - Adoption Services	New
3.8.19	Managing Allegations in Respect of Children Placed for Adoption, Children Receiving Adoption Support Services, Adopters Awaiting Placement or Allegations of Historical Abuse	New
3.8.20	Foster Carer's Who Wish to Adopt the Child they are Fostering	New
3.8.21	Disaster Recovery Plan for Adoption Services	New
3.9	Leaving Care
3.9.1	Leaving Care	Updated
3.10	Incidents
3.10.1	Barricading
3.10.2	Contacting the Police
3.10.3	Countering Bullying
3.10.4	Searching Children and their Belongings
3.11	Monitoring Quality
3.11.1	Visits to Children	Updated
3.11.2	Advocacy and Independent Visitors - to follow
3.11.3	Regulation 33 Visits
3.11.4	Notifiable Events
3.11.5	Friends and Visitors Procedure - Children's Homes	New
3.12	Privacy and Personal Care
3.12.1	Children's Bedrooms
3.12.2	Hair and Skin Care
3.12.3	Physical Contact and Intimate Care
3.12.4	Pocket Money and Allowances
3.12.5	Spiritual Development
3.12.6	Telephones, Mobile Phones and Letters
3.13	Miscellaneous
3.13.1	Change of Name
3.13.2	Marriage
3.13.3	Children Accommodated by Health Authorities
3.13.4	Criminal Injuries Compensation
3.13.5	Lincolnshire Secure Unit

4. Youth Offending

4.1	Young People and Remands
4.2	Young People in Police Stations
4.3	Young People in Criminal Courts
4.4	Young People Custodial Sentences
4.5	Electronic Monitoring
4.6	Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Orders	New

5. Guidance

5.1	Chapters
5.1.1	Assessment Framework
5.1.2	Behaviour Management
5.1.3	Children's Reviews	Updated
5.1.4	Consents
5.1.5	Bullying
5.1.6	Education
5.1.7	First Aid, Home Remedies and Prescribed Medicines	Updated
5.1.8	HIV/AIDS
5.1.9	Blood Borne Diseases
5.1.10	Incidents
5.1.11	Leaving Care	Updated
5.1.12	Life Story Books
5.1.13	Nutrition, Diet and Mealtimes
5.1.14	Placement Plans
5.1.15	Private Foster Carers
5.1.16	Touch
5.1.17	Public Law Outline (PLO) Frequently Asked Questions	Updated
5.1.18	Lease Guidance
5.1.19	Written Agreements
5.1.20	Lincolnshire Specialist Services Structure Chart
5.1.21	Information Sharing Guidance
5.1.22	Recording with Care Guidance
5.1.23	Critical Incident Handbook
5.1.24	Employee Support in Critical Incidents
5.1.25	SOVA (Supporting Others through Voluntary Action)
5.1.26	Guidance and Process for Supported Childcare
5.1.27	Health and Safety Guidance
5.1.28	Health and Safety Risk Assessment and Recording
5.1.29	Flagging Procedure for Individuals Who Pose a Risk to Children
5.2	Protocols
5.2.1	Homelessness 16/17 Year Olds Protocol
5.2.2	Homeless Families with Children Protocol
5.2.3	Information Sharing Agreement with Lincolnshire Police
5.2.4	Joint Protocol with CAFCASS
5.2.5	Joint Protocol: MAPPA and MARAC
5.2.6	Protocol for the Management of Residential Placement Contracts for Looked After Children
5.2.7	Protocol for the Management of Safeguarding Issues, Breaches of Contract and Other Performance Management Issues in Relation to Independent Residential Care for Looked After Children
5.2.8	Promoting Health and Wellbeing of Looked After Children Protocol

6. Appendices

6.1	Local Contact Details
6.2	Local Keywords
6.3	Designated Managers
6.4	Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010
6.5	Safeguarding Disabled Children Practice Guidance (DCSF 2009)
6.6	Quick Reference Guide

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