LancashireChildren's Social Care Procedures Manual

Section 8, Court Hearings has been updated in line with A View From the President's Chambers: Relaunching the PLO (November 2022) and that section should be re-read.

In Relevant Guidance, a link has been added to Pre-proceedings and Family Justice Hub (Research in Practice).

This chapter has been updated in relation to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.

This chapter has been amended to include a link to Self-harm: Assessment, Management and Preventing Recurrence NICE Guidance in the Further Information section.

Section 3, Placements in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Guernsey has been updated in line with the Cross-border Placements (Effect of Deprivation of Liberty Orders) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 and Cross-Border Placements (Effect of Deprivation of Liberty Orders) (Scotland) Regulations 2022: Practice Guidance, Notice and Undertaking Template.

This chapter has been amended in line with the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.

This chapter has been amended to incorporate Ofsted feedback. Additional information has been added into Section 2, Positive Behaviour Support and Section 5.4, Recording of Sanctions.

This chapter has been updated throughout.

Section 2, Looked After Children who are Arrested has been updated in relation to appropriate adults.

This document has been added to the manual.

This link has been added to the manual.

• Protocol for Support Post 21;
• Equality, Cohesion and Integration Strategy 2014-2017.

This document has been updated.

• Care Planning Protocol (within the Children Act 1989, Adoption and Children Act and Revised Public Law Outline 2013).

• Section 47 Child Protection Enquiries Flowchart;
• Aide memoire: A Quick Guide to the Purpose of, and good practice, in Children's Social Care's Core Tasks;
• Definition of Complex Child in Need.

• Section 5, Leaving Care Assessment of Need - in relation to children who are victims of trafficking or unaccompanied asylum seeking children;
• Section 7, Reviews of Pathway Plans - in relation to Relevant/Former Relevant young people moving to 'unregulated' accommodation; and
• Section 8, Personal Advisers - in relation to frequency of visits by Personal Advisers.

• Repeatedly go missing/absent (reported or unreported);
• Remain missing;
• Are identified as at risk of exploitation while missing;
• Are also frequently missing from education.

• Children subject to Child Protection Plans where no sufficient change has been made despite significant support;
• All children subject to pre-proceedings protocol;
• All children subject to Public Law care proceedings with the aim of identifying those children for whom twin-tracking or a concurrency placement is identified;
• Local Authority Statement of Evidence submitted to Court and Section 7 and Section 37 reports.

1. With whom a child is to live, spend time or otherwise have contact; and
2. When a child is to live, spend time or otherwise have contact with any person.

• A set of principles for social workers working on child protection cases and care orders, where the child has links to a foreign country[1];
• A summary of the main international legislation;
• Guidance on agencies and organisations that social workers can seek help and advice from, or provide information to when working on these cases; and
• Sign-posts to other relevant guidance.

• Fostering for Adoption;
• Adoption Register;
• Duty to provide information on adoption support services Ethnicity.

• The duty to consider Fostering for Adoption placements;
• The removal of the requirement to give due consideration to a child's religious persuasion, racial origin and cultural and linguistic background when matching a child and prospective adopters;
• Post-adoption contact;
• Placing of siblings.