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Manual Version August 2011

1. All Children
2. Preventive Services
3. Looked After Services
4. Youth Offending Service
5. Children in Specific Circumstances and Protocols
6. Guidance and Protocols
7. Appendices

1. All Children

1.1	Policy, Values and Principles
1.1.1	Children's Services Policy, Values and Principles
1.1.2	The Richmond Pledge
1.1.3	Quick Reference Guide to the Care Planning and Case Review Regulations and Associated Changes
1.2	Assessment and Planning
1.2.1	Referrals of Children in Need
1.2.2	Initial Assessments and Planning
1.2.3	Core Assessments
1.3	Legal Planning
1.3.1	Public Law Outline and Statutory Guidance - Frequently Asked Questions
1.4	Health Care
1.4.1	Drugs and Substance Misuse
1.4.2	HIV and AIDS
1.4.3	Self Harming
1.4.4	Death or Serious Illness/Injury in relation to a Child in Need and Looked After	Updated
1.5	Complaints and Representations
1.5.1	Representations and Complaints Procedure
1.5.2	Whistle Blowing Procedure
1.6	Miscellaneous
1.6.1	EDT
1.6.2	Physical Intervention
1.6.3	Transporting Children and Activities
1.6.4	Disputes between Teams Regarding Child Protection Cases including Flowchart

2. Preventive Services

2.1	Child Plans	Updated
2.2	Private Fostering

3. Looked After Services

3.1	Route Map For looked After Children
3.1.1	Route Map for Looked After Children	Updated
3.1.2	Decision to Look After a Child (Care and Permanence Planning)	Updated
3.2	Placements
3.2.1	Placements in Foster Care	Updated
3.2.2	Placements in Residential Care and Secure Accommodation	Updated
3.2.3	Placements with Parents	Updated
3.2.4	Placements with Relatives, Friends and Connected Persons	New
3.2.5	Placements outside England and Wales
3.2.6	Placements for Adoption	Updated
3.2.7	Special Guardianship
3.2.8	Notification by other Local Authorities of Looked After Children placed in Richmond
3.3	Reviews
3.3.1	Placement Planning Meetings
3.3.2	Looked After Reviews	Updated
3.3.3	Secure Accommodation (Criteria) Reviews
3.4	Behaviour Management
3.4.1	Sanctions
3.4.2	Absent/Missing Children
3.5	Education, Recreation and Activities
3.5.1	Education of Looked After Children	Updated
3.5.2	Holidays and School Trips Outside the UK
3.5.3	Leisure and Recreation
3.5.4	School Trips within the UK
3.5.5	Activities and Transporting Children in Foster Care
3.6	Family Contacts, Visitors and Friends
3.6.1	Contact with Parents and Siblings	Updated
3.6.2	Overnight Stays and Contact with Relatives and Friends
3.7	Foster Carers
3.7.1	Fostering and Short Break Panels	Updated
3.7.2	Assessment and Approval of Foster Carers, Short Break Carers and Befrienders	Updated
3.7.3	Limit on the number of Children in Foster Homes
3.7.4	Persons Disqualified from Fostering
3.7.5	Review of Foster Carers
3.7.6	Supported Lodgings
3.7.7	Supervision of Foster Carers	Updated
3.7.8	Specialist Fostering Scheme
3.8	Health and Wellbeing
3.8.1	First Aid, Home Remedies and Prescribed Medicines
3.8.2	General Practitioners, Dentists and Opticians
3.8.3	Health Care Assessments and Health Care Plans	Updated
3.8.4	Invasive Procedures
3.8.5	Sexual Health and Relationships
3.9	Incidents
3.9.1	Contacting the Police
3.9.2	Countering of Bullying
3.9.3	Searching Children and their Belongings
3.9.4	Notifiable Events
3.10	Adoptive Parents
3.10.1	Adoption and Permanency Panel	Updated
3.10.2	Assessment and Approval of Agency Adoptive Parents	Updated
3.10.3	Assessment and Approval of Inter-Country Adoptive Parents	Updated
3.10.4	Adoption Case Records	Updated
3.10.5	Monitoring and Supervision of Adoptive Placements
3.10.6	Adoption Reviews	Updated
3.10.7	Adoption Support Services
3.10.8	Ending (Disruption) of Adoptive Placements
3.11	Leaving Care
3.11.1	Leaving the Looked After Service	Updated
3.12	Monitoring Quality
3.12.1	Social Worker Visits to Looked After Children	Updated
3.12.2	Appointment and Role of Independent Reviewing Officers	New
3.13	Privacy and Personal Care
3.13.1	Children's Bedrooms
3.13.2	Hair and Skin Care
3.13.3	Physical Contact and Intimate Care
3.13.4	Spiritual Development
3.13.5	Telephones, Mobile 'Phones and Letters
3.14	Protection and Advocacy
3.14.1	Advocacy and Independent Visitors	Updated
3.15	Miscellaneous
3.15.1	Change of Name of a Looked After Child
3.15.2	Marriage of a Looked After Child
3.15.3	Access to Birth Records and Birth Relative Initiated Contact

4. Youth Offending Service

This Section is under review and will appear in the manual in late 2011.

5. Children in Specific Circumstances and Protocols

5.1	Disabled Children Register and Assessment Protocols
5.2	Disabled Children Transition Protocols
5.3	Domestic Violence Protocol
5.4	Funding Arrangements for the Placement of Children in Residential Care
5.5	Intentionally Homeless Children and Families Protocol
5.6	Mental Health (CHMT) Protocol
5.7	Short Break Care Scheme
5.8	Protocol for Crofters
5.9	Travellers, Gypsies and Unauthorised Camping Protocol
5.10	Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children

6. Guidance and Protocols

6.1	Safeguarding Guidance
6.1.1	Access to Computers and Internet Safety
6.1.2	Behaviour Management Guidance
6.1.3	Countering Bullying
6.1.4	Incidents - General
6.1.5	Significant Harm and Recognition of Abuse
6.1.6	Touch Guidance
6.3	Referrals, Assessments and Planning Guidance
6.3.1	Budget Delegation and Development
6.3.2	Care Plans Guidance
6.3.3	Children's Reviews Guidance
6.3.4	Initial and Core Assessment
6.3.5	Kinship Care Guidance (under review)
6.3.6	Life Story Books
6.3.7	Permanence Planning	Updated
6.3.8	Placement Prioritisation Criteria
6.3.9	Secure Accommodation Reviews
6.4	Fostering and Adoption Guidance
6.4.1	Assessing Prospective Foster Carers
6.4.2	Court Reports in Adoption/Special Guardianship
6.5	Education, Health and Wellbeing Guidance
6.5.1	Consents
6.5.2	Education of Looked After Children
6.5.3	First Aid, Home Remedies and Prescribed Medicines
6.5.4	HIV/AIDS
6.6	Miscellaneous Guidance
6.6.1	Code of Practice for Social Care

7. Appendices

7.1	Local Contact Details	Updated
7.2	Local Keywords
7.3	Designated Managers
7.4	NICE Guidelines
7.5	Ministry of Justice PLO Guidance

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