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January 2012

1. All Children
2. Children in Need - Preventative and Supportive Services
3. Private Fostering
4. Services to Children Looked After
5. Adoption and Permanence
6. Children in Specific Circumstances
7. Protocols
8. Guidance
9. Staff
10. Appendices

1. All Children

1.1	Introduction and Policy Framework
1.1.1	Foreword	Updated Oct '11
1.1.2	Policy Framework and National Policy Context
1.1.3	Vision, Values and Principles of Confidentiality and Consultation	Updated Oct '11
1.1.4	Children's Charter
1.1.5	Family and Friends Care Policy	Under Review
1.2	Early Intervention and Prevention
1.2.1	Early Intervention Strategy	New Oct '11
1.2.2	Lancashire Children's Trust	Updated Jan '12
1.2.3	Lancashire Children's Trust Commissioning Framework: Supporting a Healthier Better Life	Updated Oct '11
1.3	Children's Social Care - Assessment and Planning
1.3.1	Referrals	Updated Jan '12
1.3.2	Referral of Concern about the Welfare of Children Flowcharts	Updated Jan '12
1.3.3	Initial Assessments	Updated Jan '12
1.3.4	Strategy Discussions
1.3.5	Core Assessments (including Section 47 Enquiries)	Updated Jan '12
1.3.6	Child Protection Conferences and Core Groups
1.3.7	Joint Working Protocol for Homeless 16/17 Year Olds	New Oct '11
1.4	Complaints and Whistle-Blowing
1.4.1	Social Care Complaints and Respresentations for Children, Young People and Others	Updated Jan '12
1.4.2	Whistle Blowing	Updated Jan '12
1.5	Procedures for All Children
1.5.1	Advocacy Services
1.5.2	Interpreting and Translating Service
1.5.3	Activities for Children
1.5.4	Transport Policy (February 2007)
1.5.5	Death or Serious Injury to a Child
1.5.6	Allegations against Staff
1.6	Allocation of Work
1.6.1	Children's Social Care Transfer Protocol	New Oct '11
1.6.2	Notifications and Transfer of Children subject to Child Protection Plans moving from/to Local Authority Areas (Lancashire Safeguarding Children Board)	New Oct '11
1.6.3	District Transfer Protocol for Leaving Care Cases	New Jan '12
1.7	Children's Records
1.7.1	Recording Procedures	Updated Jan '12
1.7.2	Recording - Key Factors	New Oct '11
1.7.3	Recording - A Snapshot of Essentials	New Oct '11
1.7.4	Getting it Write - Guidance on Recording and Social Care Records in Children's Social Care (November 2006)
1.7.5	Retention and Destruction of Service Users Records (March 2007)
1.7.6	File Audit Framework	New Oct '11

2. Children in Need - Preventative and Supportive Services

2.1	Family Support/Child in Need Plans and Reviews	Under Review
2.2	Family Support Services	Under Review
2.3	Children Cared for by Friends/Relatives

3. Private Fostering

3.1	Private Fostering Procedure	Updated Jan '12
3.2	Social Workers' Practice Guide to Private Fostering	Updated Jan '12

4. Services to Children Looked After

4.1	Planning for Children Looked After
4.1.1	Route Map for Children Looked After	Updated Oct '11
4.1.2	Decision to Look After and the Care Plan	Updated Oct '11
4.1.3	Care Planning Meetings and Permanence Planning	Updated Oct '11
4.1.4	Emergency Protection Orders
4.1.5	Public Law Outline - Frequently Asked Questions
4.1.6	Care Planning Guidance	Updated Oct '11
4.1.7	Flowcharts for Permanence Planning
4.1.8	Treasure Chest for Children Looked After	New Jan '12
4.2	Placements
4.2.1	Placement Plans	New Oct '11
4.2.2	Emergency Placements	Updated Oct '11
4.2.3	Placements in Foster Care	Updated Oct '11
4.2.4	Placements in Residential Care	Updated Oct '11
4.2.5	Placements in Secure Accommodation
4.2.6	Placements with Parents and/or Those Holding Residence Orders Immediately before the Care Order	Updated Oct '11
4.2.7	Immediate Placements of Looked After Children with Connected Persons	Updated Oct '11
4.2.8	Practice Guidance Note Relating to the Use of Regulation 24 of the Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010	Updated Oct '11
4.2.9	Placements Outside England and Wales	Updated Oct '11
4.2.10	Agency Placements Flowchart
4.2.11	Out of Area Placements Procedure	New Oct '11
4.2.12	Notifications by Other Local Authorities of Children Looked After Placed in Lancashire	Updated Oct '11
4.2.13	Remands to Local Authority Accommodation or Custody
4.2.14	YJB Court Ordered Secure Remands Protocol (July 2010)
4.3	Reviews
4.3.1	Children Looked After Reviews and the Role of the Independent Reviewing Officer	Updated Oct '11
4.3.2	Problem Resolution Procedure and Flowchart	Updated Oct '11
4.3.3	Placement Plan Reviews
4.3.4	Secure Accommodation Criteria Reviews
4.4	Behaviour Management
4.4.1	Behaviour Management Policy for Residential Care
4.4.2	Behaviour Management Plans
4.4.3	Behaviour Management Policy for Foster Care	Updated Oct '11
4.4.4	Sanctions
	See also ADCS Protocol for Local Children's Services Authorities on Restrictive Physical Interventions in Schools, Residential and other Care Settings for Children and Young People.
4.5	Education
4.5.1	Education of Looked After Children	Updated Oct '11
4.5.2	Celebrating Achievements and Monthly Achievements Awards
4.5.3	Children who go on Holiday during Term Time - to follow
4.6	Recreation and Activities
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 Activities
4.6.4	Distribution of Publications
4.6.5	Safe and Proper Use of Internet and Computers for Children Looked After
4.7	Health and Wellbeing
4.7.1	Drugs and Substance Misuse
4.7.2	Administration of Medication in Children's Establishments
4.7.3	General Practitioners, Dentists and Opticians
4.7.4	Health Care Assessments and Health Plans	Updated Oct '11
4.7.5	Infestations
4.7.6	Self Harming
4.7.7	Nutrition and Diet
4.8	Family Contacts, Visitors and Friends
4.8.1	Contact Policy, Procedure and Practice Guidance for Children Looked After
4.8.2	Overnight Stays for Children Looked After
4.9	Foster Carers
	National Minimum Standards for Fostering 2011
4.9.1	Assessment and Approval of Foster Carers
4.9.2	Fostering Panel	Updated Oct '11
4.9.3	Exemption from the Usual Limit on the Number of Children in Foster Homes
4.9.4	Persons Disqualified from Fostering	Updated Oct '11
4.9.5	Review of Foster Carers
4.9.6	Support and Supervision of Foster Carers
4.9.7	Allegations against Foster Carers	Updated Oct '11
4.9.8	Fostering Focus Panel
4.9.9	Foster Carers Record Keeping and Retention Policy
4.9.10	Foster Carers and Baby Sitting
4.9.11	Guidance on Safer Caring Policy
4.9.12	Variation to the Approval of Foster Carers	Updated Oct '11
4.9.13	Family Placement and Smoking Policy
4.9.14	Disability Living Allowance - Children Lookeed After in Foster Placements	New Oct '11
4.10	Leaving Care
4.10.1	Leaving Care
	See also District Transfer Protocol for Leaving Care Cases
4.11	Incidents
4.11.1	Contacting the Police
4.11.2	Countering Bullying
4.11.3	Searching Young People and their Belongings
4.11.4	Young People Absent from their Placements
4.11.5	Young People Absent from their Placements - Absence Status
4.11.6	Missing from Care - Intervention Meetings
4.11.7	Missing Person - Return Interview Form
4.12	Monitoring Quality and Providing Support
4.12.1	Social Worker Visits	Updated Oct '11
4.12.2	Independent Visitors	Updated Oct '11
4.12.3	Regulation 33 and 34 Visits
4.13	Privacy and Personal Care
4.13.1	Children's Bedrooms	Updated Oct '11
4.13.2	Hair and Skin Care
4.13.3	Physical Contact and Intimate Care
4.13.4	Pocket Money and Allowances
4.13.5	Spiritual Development
4.13.6	Telephones, Mobile, Phones and Letters
4.13.7	Use of Images and Names of Children Looked After	New Oct '11
4.14	Miscellaneous
4.14.1	Change of Name	Updated Jan '12
4.14.2	Marriage
4.14.3	Child Trust Funds	Updated Oct '11
4.14.4	Criminal Injuries Compensation
4.14.5	Applications under the Mental Health Act
4.14.6	Registration for National Insurance

5. Adoption and Permanence

5.1	Adoption
	National Minimum Standards for Adoption 2011
5.1.1	Adoption and Permanence Panel	Updated Oct '11
5.1.2	Assessment and Approval of Prospective Adoptive Parents	Updated Oct '11
5.1.3	Placement for Adoption	Updated Oct '11
5.1.4	Adoption Support
5.1.5	Monitoring and Supervision of Adoptive Placements
5.1.6	Adoption Reviews	Updated Oct '11
5.1.7	Disruption of Adoptive Placements
5.1.8	Allegations against Prospective Adopters	Updated Oct '11
5.1.9	Inter-Country Adoption
5.1.10	Non-agency Adoptions
5.1.11	Adoption Case Records	Updated Oct '11
5.1.12	Access to Birth Records and Adoption Case Records
5.1.13	Intermediary Services
5.1.14	Application by Current Foster Carers to Adopt a Child for whom they are Caring	New Oct '11
5.1.15	Adoption Allowance Scheme
	Please also see Family Placement and Smoking Policy
5.2	Other Permanence Options
5.2.1	Special Guardianship: Assessments and Support	Updated Oct '11
5.2.2	Residence Order Allowances
5.3	Court Reports in Adoption/Special Guardianship
5.3.1	Court Reports in Adoption/Special Guardianship

6. Children in Specific Circumstances

6.1	SEND Team	Updated Jan '12
6.2	Direct Payments Scheme
6.3	Carer's Assessments	Updated Oct '11
6.4	Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children	Updated Oct '11
6.5	Children Living with Domestic Violence

7.  Protocols

7.1	Information Sharing within and between Agencies
7.2	Information Sharing Flowchart
7.3	Lancashire Family Courts Protocol for Section 7 Directions
7.4	North West Inter Authority Protocol - re Children in Need moving in and out of Lancashire	Under Review
7.5	Working Agreement and Protocol for the Youth Offending Team and Children's Social Care	Under Review
7.6	Joint Protocol - Children and young people who run away or go missing from home and care
7.7	Assessing Children Together Protocol
7.8	Working with Sexually Active Young People Under the Age of 18
	See also list of Regional Protocol (Part 11) and Local Protocols for Lancashire (Part 12.3) in the Pan Lancashire Inter Agency Policy and Procedures for Safeguarding Children Manual

8. Guidance

8.1	Assessment and Progress Records
8.2	Assessment Framework Guidance	Updated Jan'12
8.3	Attachment Guidance for Permanence
8.4	Behaviour Management
8.5	Care Plans	Updated Oct '11
8.6	Carers Assessments
8.7	Consents
8.8	Countering Bullying
8.9	Education of Children Looked After	Updated Oct '11
8.10	Health and Safety Checklists for Foster Carers - Guidance to Family Placement Staff
8.11	Incidents - General
8.12	Life Story Books
8.13	Passport Applications for Children Looked After
8.14	Permanence Planning for Looked After Children
8.15	Personal and Sexual Health Policy and Guidance, June 2004
8.16	Touch Guidance

9. Staff

9.1	Staff Induction	New Oct '11
9.2	Employee Supervision Strategy

10. Appendices

10.1	Local Contacts	Updated Jan '12
10.2	Local Keywords
10.3	Scheme of Delegation - Casework	Updated Jan '12
10.4	Public Law Outline
10.5	Quick Reference Guide	New Oct '11

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