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Manual Version 8, January 2011

1. Introduction
2. First Response / Safeguarding Support
3. Court Business
4. Early Intervention and Family Support
5. Children in Care
6. Children with Disabilities
7. Children's Homes
8. Fostering and Adoption
9. Practice/Management Support and Administration
10. Appendices

1. Introduction

1.1

Values and Principles

Updated

2. First Response / Safeguarding Support

2.1	Initial Screening - Core Assessments
2.1.1	Assessment and Screening - Multi Agency Processes	New
2.1.2	CAF Guidance - see new chapter 4.1.1	Updated
2.1.3	Initial Screening and Referrals of Children in Need	Updated
2.1.4	Initial Assessments	Updated
2.1.5	Core Assessments	Updated
2.1.6	Safeguarding Panel
2.1.7	Professionals and Network Meetings	Updated
2.1.8	Emergency Duty Team	Updated
2.1.9	Assessments Guidance	Updated
2.1.10	Age Assessments
2.1.11	Thresholds of Need and Service Responses
2.2	ICS Transformation Program Guidance
2.2.1	Practice Guidance for Children in Need ICS Transformation Program	New
2.2.2	Core Assessment Record for Child Protection Guidance - ICS Transformation Program	New
2.2.3	Procedures for Recording Siblings on Frameworki	New
2.3	Decision to Look After
2.3.1	Permanence Planning
2.3.2	Decision to Look After
2.4	Safeguarding Children in Need
	London Child Protection Procedures
	Haringey LSCB Protocols and Guidance
2.4.1	Allegations Against Staff/Volunteers
2.4.2	Death of or Serious Injury: Child in Need
2.4.3	Missing from Home	Updated
2.4.4	Drug Using Screening Tool (DUST)
2.4.5	Care Pathway for Section 47 Child Protection Medicals
2.4.6	Rapid Response in the Event of an unexpected Death
2.4.7	Families with No Recourse to Public Funds	Updated
2.4.8	Social Work Visits to Children Subject to a Child Protection Plan	Updated
2.4.9	Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) Guidance	New
2.4.10	Recording MAPPA and MARAC on Frameworki	New
2.5	Youth Offending
2.5.1	Youth Offending Service - Children's Services Protocol
2.5.2	ASBO Guidance Involving Young People
2.6	Miscellaneous
2.6.1	Care Needs of Children from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds
2.6.2	Police Units and Children's Social Work Joint Protocol

3. Court Business

3.1	Legal Planning Meetings	Updated
3.2	Court Business
3.3	Public Law Outline
3.4	Emergency Protection Order Guidance/Case Studies
3.5	Preparing for Care and Supervision Proceedings Guidance
3.6	Recording of Court Proceedings and Legal Advice on Frameworki	New

4. Early Intervention and Family Support

4.1	Integrated Working
4.1.1	Common Assessment Framework (CAF) Guidance	New
4.1.2	Lead Professional and the Team Around the Child (TAC) Guidance	New
4.2	Private Fostering
4.2.1	Private Fostering Procedure
4.2.2	Private Fostering Statement of Purpose	Updated
4.3	Preventative Services and Family Support Miscellaneous
4.3.1	Family Support
4.3.2	Supporting Homeless Families	Updated
4.3.3	Homeless 16 and 17 Year Olds - Draft Protocol with Housing	New
4.3.4	Family Group Conferences
4.3.5	Criminal Injures Compensation
4.3.6	Children's Trust Fund	Updated
4.3.7	Family Intervention Project - Information Pack	New

5. Children in Care

	The London Pledge for Children and Young People in Care
5.1	Placement Arrangements
5.1.1	Placements Procedures
5.1.2	Placement with Parents
5.1.3	Placement with Relatives and Friends	Updated
5.1.4	Placements Outside England and Wales
5.1.5	Placements in Secure Accommodation
5.1.6	Post Placement Arrangements /Notifications
5.1.7	Social Work Visits to Children in Care
5.2	Meetings and Reviews
5.2.1	Planning and Disruption Meetings
5.2.2	Child in Care Reviews
5.2.3	Secure Accommodation (Criteria) Reviews
5.3	Health and Well Being of Looked After Children
5.3.1	Health Care Assessments and Health Plans	Updated
5.3.2	HIV and AIDS Procedure
5.3.3	HIV and AIDs Guidance
5.3.4	Immunisations
5.4	Education of Looked After Children
5.4.1	Personal Education Plans	Updated
5.4.2	Moving to a new School/Authority	Updated
5.4.3	Education Expectations and Underachieving
5.4.4	School Exclusions
5.4.5	Absence and Missing from School
5.4.6	Guidance on Looked After Children with SEN	New
5.5	Passports, Holidays and Trips
5.5.1	Passports, Immigration and Naturalisation
5.5.2	Holidays and School Trips Outside the UK
5.5.3	School Trips within the UK
5.6	Identity and Family Contacts
5.6.1	Supervised Contacts Service
5.6.2	Contact with Parents and Siblings
5.6.3	Overnight Stays and Contact with Relatives and Friends
5.6.4	Change of Name of a Looked After Child
5.6.5	Marriage of a Looked After Child
5.7	Leaving Care
5.7.1	Leaving Care Service

6. Children with Disabilities

6.1	Threshold Criteria for Disabled Children's Team
6.2	Children with Disabilities
6.3	Disabled Children Adult Transition Protocol
6.4	Assessing the Needs of Parents with Learning Disabilities and their Children

7. Children's Homes

7.1

Haringey Children's Homes Procedures Manual

New

8. Fostering and Adoption

8.1	Foster Carers
8.1.1	Fostering Statement of Purpose
8.1.2	Assessment and Approval of Foster Carers	Updated
8.1.3	Limit on the Number of Children in Foster Homes
8.1.4	Persons Disqualified from Fostering
8.1.5	Annual Review of Foster Carers
8.1.6	Supervision of Foster Carers
8.1.7	Payments for Foster Carers	Updated
8.1.8	Payments for Relatives and Friends Foster Carers	Updated
8.1.9	Safe Caring Procedures and Guidance
8.1.10	Allegations against Foster Carers and Prospective Adopters
8.2	Adoption Procedures
8.2.1	Adoption Values and Principles
8.2.2	Adoption Service Statement of Purpose	Updated
8.2.3	Adoption Panel
8.2.4	Assessment and Approval of Agency Adoptive Parents
8.2.5	Placement for Adoption
8.2.6	Adoption Reviews
8.2.7	Monitoring and Supervision of Agency Adoptive Placements
8.2.8	Disruption of Agency Adoptive Placements
8.2.9	Allegations against Foster Carers and Prospective Adopters
8.2.10	Inter Country Adoption
8.2.11	Non Agency Adoptions
8.2.12	Adoption Support Services
8.2.13	Adoption Case Records
8.2.14	Access to Birth Records/Adoption Case Records
8.2.15	Intermediary Services
8.2.16	Applications for Special Guardianship
8.2.17	Court Reports in Adoption and Special Guardianship

9. Practice/Management Support and Administration

9.1	Protocol for the Safe Handling of Client Information by staff in the Children and Young People's Service	New
9.2	Information Sharing Guidance for Practitioners Working with Children, Young People and Families (Haringey Children's Trust)	New
9.3	Forms Library	Updated
9.4	Case Allocations Guidance	Updated
9.5	Transfers Protocol
9.6	Workload Management Scheme
9.7	Staff Supervision
9.8	Scheme of Delegation and Local Contacts	Updated
9.9	Practice Standards

10. Appendices

10.1	Local Keywords
10.2	EDT Protocol - Out of Hours Visit Requests	New

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