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June 2017

1. All Children

1.1	Policy Values and Principles
1.1.1	Children’s Social Care Policies, Values and Principles
1.1.2	Confidentiality Policy
1.1.3	Consultation Policy
1.1.4	Research Governance
1.1.5	Family and Friends Care
1.2	Family Early Help Assessment and Thresholds for Children's Social Care Services
1.2.1	Family Early Help Assessment
1.2.2	Children in Need Threshold Criteria (including Step Down Protocol)
1.3	Children's Social Care - Assessment and Planning
1.3.1	Initial Contacts and Referrals
1.3.2	Single Assessment
1.3.3	Child Protection Enquiries (Section 47)
1.3.4	Case Transfers
1.4	Court Proceedings
1.4.1	Application for Emergency Protection Orders
1.4.2	Care and Supervision Proceedings and the Public Law Outline	Updated
1.4.3	Legal Gateway Meetings
1.4.4	Legal Gateway Planning Meetings Procedure
1.5	Safeguarding in Children’s Services
1.5.1	Death or Serious Injury to a Child (Child in Care)
1.5.2	Safeguarding Children and Young People from Sexual Exploitation	Updated
1.5.3	Social Networking Information for Children’s Social Care Staff, Foster Carers and Prospective Adopters
1.5.4	Child Protection Cases and the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC)	New
1.6	Complaints and Whistleblowing
1.6.1	Complaints and Representations
1.6.2	City of York Council Whistleblowing Policy (2015)
1.6.3	Staff Guidance: Learning from Customer Feedback, Comments, Concerns, Compliments and Complaints Procedure
1.7	Child Protection Procedures – Children’s Social Care Guidance for Staff
1.7.1	Core Groups - Practice Guidance

2. Case Management and Recording

2.1	Recording Standards	New
2.2	Case Records and Retention
2.3	Access to Records

3. Prevention and Family Support

3.1	Children in Need Plans and Reviews - Practice Guidance
3.2	Temporary Care of a Child or Young Person by Someone Other than a Parent or Current Carer at the Request of Children's Social Care
3.3	Private Fostering – Practice Guidance
3.4	Joint Procedure for the Assessment of Housing and Support Needs of Homeless or likely to become Homeless 16 and 17 Year Olds
3.5	Family Group Conference
3.6	Young Carers

4. Children with Disabilities

4.1	Children and Young People Aged 0-25 with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
4.2	Children’s Disability Service
4.3	Direct Payments
4.4	Short Breaks	Updated

5. Children from Abroad

5.1	Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC)
5.2	Families with No Recourse to Public Funds

6. Children in Care

6.1	Decision to Look After and Care Planning
6.1.1	Local Authority's Sufficiency Duty - Accommodation for Children in Care
6.1.2	Decision to Look After and Care Planning
6.1.3	Ceasing to Look After a Child
6.1.4	Permanence Planning Guidance
6.1.5	Placement Planning and Disruption Meetings
6.1.6	Placements in Foster Care
6.1.7	Placements in Residential Care	Updated
6.1.8	Out of Authority Placements: Approval, Consultation and Notification Process
6.1.9	Placements with Connected Persons	Updated
6.1.10	Placements in Secure Accommodation on Welfare Grounds	Updated
6.1.11	Placements with Parents	Updated
6.1.12	Placements Outside England and Wales
6.1.13	Notifications from Other Local Authorities/Placement Providers
6.1.14	Joint Panel Policy
6.1.15	Remands to Local Authority Accommodation or to Youth Detention Accommodation
6.1.16	Responding to Children and Young People who go Missing from Placement	Updated
6.1.17	Delegation of Authority to Foster Carers and Residential Workers
6.1.18	Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority Claims for Children in Care
6.2	Monitoring and Reviews
6.2.1	Social Worker Visits to Children in Care
6.2.2	Advocacy and Independent Visitors
6.2.3	Children and Young People in Care Reviews	Updated
6.2.4	Appointment and Role of Independent Reviewing Officers
6.2.5	Secure Accommodation (Criteria) Reviews
6.2.6	Children in Care Resolutions Process
6.2.7	Notification of Significant Events
6.3	Contact and Overnight Stays
6.3.1	Contact with Parents and Siblings
6.3.2	Social Visits (Including Overnight Stays)	Updated
6.4	Education, School Trips and Holidays
6.4.1	Education of Children in Care
6.4.2	Arrangements for Leisure, Holiday and Other Extra-Mural Activities for Children in Care
6.4.3	Holidays and School Trips Outside the UK
6.5	Health and Wellbeing
6.5.1	Health Care Assessments and Plans
6.5.2	Personal Care and Relationships
6.5.3	Behaviour Management and Safe Caring
6.5.4	Restrictive Physical Intervention
6.5.5	Junior Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) for Children in Care
6.6	Change of Name and Marriage
6.6.1	Change of Name of a Child in Care
6.6.2	Marriage of a Child in Care
6.7	Leaving Care and Transition
6.7.1	Leaving Care and Transition
6.7.2	Pathway Financial Arrangements for Young People who have Left Care Aged 16-17
6.7.3	Pathway Financial Arrangements for Former Relevant Young People who have Left Care Aged 18+
6.7.4	Staying Put
6.7.5	Protocol and Guidance on the Provision of Pathway Support to Care Leavers up to the age of 24
6.8	Youth Offending
6.8.1	Children in Care In Contact With Youth Justice Services
6.8.2	Responsibilities of the Local Authority to Former Children in Care who are in Custody
	See also: Remands to Local Authority Accommodation or to Youth Detention Accommodation

7. Fostering

	National Minimum Standards 2011 - Fostering Services
	City of York Foster Carer’s Handbook
7.1	Fostering Panel
7.2	Persons Disqualified from Fostering
7.3	Assessment and Approval of Foster Carers
7.4	Fostering Exemptions and Extensions / Variations to Foster Carer’s Terms of Approval
7.5	Supervision and Support of Foster Carers	Updated
7.6	Review and Termination of Approval of Foster Carers
7.7	Allegations Against Foster Carers
7.8	Foster Carer Recording
7.9	Guidance on the Assessment of New Partners within Fostering Households
	See also: Delegation of Authority to Foster Carers and Residential Workers

8. Adoption

	City of York is moving towards being part of North and Humber Regional Adoption Agency (RAA); it is anticipated that this will be established Autumn 2017. RAA procedures will be drafted, in the interim City of York procedures apply but will be modified as we move closer to the RAA.
	National Minimum Standards - Adoption - July 2014
8.1	Plan for Adoption
8.2	Placement for Adoption
8.3	Early Permanence Placements / Fostering for Adoption
8.4	Adoption Case Records
8.5	Life Story Books
8.6	Later Life Letters
8.7	Adoption Panel
8.8	Adoption Support
8.9	Monitoring and Supervision of Adoptive Placements
8.10	Adoption Reviews
8.11	Disruption of Adoptive Placements
8.12	Assessment and Approval of Prospective Adopters	Updated
8.13	Allegations Against Prospective Adopters in Relation to Children Placed for Adoption or Already Adopted and in Receipt of Adoption Support Services from City of York
8.14	Inter Country Adoption
8.15	Step Parent and other Non Agency Adoption
8.16	Access to Birth Records and Adoption Case Records
8.17	Intermediary Services and Access to Information in Pre-Commencement Adoptions

9. Special Guardianship and Child Arrangement Orders

9.1	Application for Special Guardianship Orders	Updated
9.2	Special Guardianship Order Support	Updated
9.3	Child Arrangements Order Allowances
9.4	Guidance on Payment of Adoption Allowance, Special Guardianship Order Allowance and Child Arrangement Order Allowance
9.5	Court Reports in Placement Orders/Adoption Orders/Special Guardianship Orders Guidance

10. Information for Service Users

10.1	City of York Pledge to Children and Young People in Care: Young People’s Guide
10.2	City of York’s Pledge to Children and Young People in Care
10.3	City of York’s Pledge to Children and Young People in Care Poster
10.4	City of York Pledge to Children and Young People in Care: Professionals Guide
10.5	Young People’s Guide to the Independent Reviewing Officers Handbook
10.6	Confidentiality and Access to Records Leaflet

11. Supervision

11.1

Supervision Policy and Guidance to Staff

12. Local Contacts, Designated Managers and Appendices

12.1	Key Local Contacts
12.2	Local Keywords
12.3	Designated Managers
12.4	Working Together to Safeguard Children 2015
12.5	Amendments

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