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1.1 |
Policy, Values and Principles |
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1.1.1 |
Children's Services Policies, Values and Principles |
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1.1.2 |
Children's Consultation and Participation |
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1.1.3 |
Supervision - Supporting Staff in a Challenging Social Care Environment - under review |
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1.1.4 |
Social Work Practice Standards - under review |
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1.1.5 |
Managers Practice Standards - under review |
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1.1.6 |
Quality Assurance and Performance Management Framework |
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1.1.7 |
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy |
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1.2 |
Early Help and Thresholds for Children's Social Care Services |
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1.2.1 |
What is Early Help? |
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1.2.2 |
Wirral Safeguarding Children Partnership: Multi-Agency Thresholds |
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1.2.3 |
Process for Early Help Transfers - under review |
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1.2.4 |
Step Across Arrangements |
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1.2.5 |
Capacity and Consent |
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See also: Early Intervention: Policy and Provision (House of Commons Library) This Report focuses on the development of early intervention policies in England
and programmes directed at parents and children from conception up to age five years.
It explores their evidence-base and their impact. It also includes suggestions for
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1.3 |
Sensory Services |
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1.3.1 |
Sensory Service Braille Policy |
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1.3.2 |
Sensory Services Communication Policy Hearing Support |
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1.3.3 |
Sensory Service Early Years Policy Hearing Support |
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1.3.4 |
Sensory Services Early Years Policy |
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1.3.5 |
Sensory Services Procedure for dealing with EHCP Information Requests |
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1.3.6 |
Sensory Services Mobility Policy |
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1.3.7 |
Sensory Services Transition Policy |
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1.4 |
Children's Social Care - Assessment and Planning |
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1.4.1 |
Contacts and Referrals |
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1.4.2 |
Assessments |
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1.4.3 |
Referral to Emergency Duty Team |
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1.4.3a |
One Minute Guide: Wirral Emergency Duty Team for Children's Services |
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1.4.4 |
Child Protection Enquiries (Section 47) |
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See also: Wirral Safeguarding Children Partnership Procedures |
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1.4.5 |
Level 4 Pre-Birth Assessment and Planning Procedure |
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1.4.6 |
Allocation of Work and Transfer Between Teams |
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1.4.7 |
Family Group Conferences |
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1.4.8 |
North West Notification and Transfer of Children Subject of Child Protection Plans Across Local Authority Boundaries |
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1.4.9 |
Family Networks and Family Group Decision Making |
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1.5 |
Children in Need and Child Protection |
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1.5.1 |
Children in Need Procedure |
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1.5.2 |
North West Children in Need Moving Across Local Authority Boundaries |
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1.5.3 |
Developing the Child Protection Plan |
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1.6 |
Legal Proceedings |
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1.6.1 |
Applications for Emergency Protection Orders |
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1.6.2 |
Care and Supervision Proceedings and the Public Law Outline |
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1.6.3 |
Legal Planning Meetings - Legal Gatekeeping |
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1.6.4 |
Supervision Orders and the Role of the IRO |
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1.6.5 |
Disclosure of Information between Family and Criminal Agencies and Jurisdictions: 2024 Protocol |
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1.6.6 |
Discharge of Care Order |
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See also: Cross-border Child Protection Cases: The 1996 Hague Convention |
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1.6.7 |
North West Pre-Care and Care Proceedings Notification and Transfer Across Local Authority Boundaries
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See also: Family Justice Resource Hub (ADCS). This hosts a series of practical resources, such as templates, tools and practice guidance, which will be of interest to those working in the family justice system.
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1.7 |
Complaints and Whistleblowing |
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1.7.1 |
Complaints Policy and Procedure |
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1.7.1a |
Child Friendly Complaints and Comments Policy |
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1.7.2 |
Whistleblowing |
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1.8 |
Notifications |
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1.8.1 |
Death or Serious Injury to a Child (Looked After, Child in Need or Care Leaver Up to and Including the Age of 24 |
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