Sentences with phrase «local authority children»

This is a meeting which takes place between local authority Children's Services, other professionals who are in contact with the child, and family members.

Guidance on local authority children's services judged inadequate, special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) inspections.

FRG provides free confidential advice to families who are involved with local authority children's services or need help from those services.

From 2018 Ofsted will use this framework and guidance for most inspections of local authority children's services (ILACS).

Finding therapeutic help for children with emotional, behaviour and mental health problems can be found by contacting an independent play therapist or practitioner (for which you will have to pay a fee) or by using a therapist whose services are fully or partly funded by local authority children's, education, social, or health services, a charity or some other agency.

Secure training centres, STCs, were the brainchild of the Conservative home secretary Michael Howard - a cheaper and more professional alternative to secure local authority children's homes.

As a former local authority child protection expert, Sam feels, when planning training it is vital «to consider that members of staff in all likelihood will have varied levels of understanding of the topic which may also include knowledge which is not evidence based, making individual assessment critical to ensure that the desired learning outcomes are properly understood.»

Her warning follows Debbie Barnes, the director of the ADCS educational achievement policy committee, which brings together local authority children's services, who has made a number of suggestions about exclusions.

Furthermore, the judgment removes a significant anomaly whereby children who were abused in local authority children's homes had a remedy in damages under vicarious liability but those abused in foster homes did not».

Care Proceedings start when local authority children's services ask the court to make a decision about a child who they think has suffered or may suffer significant harm.

Guidance on local authority children's services judged inadequate, special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) inspections.

Fathers Matter DVD: The views and experiences of fathers on their involvement with local authority children's services, pub 2009.

The school shares its site with another local authority children's programme so it is especially important that it is able to restrict access and have a reliable system to ensure it knows who is on site at any time.

Some children told counsellors they are being directed to contact Childline after normal working hours by statutory services, such as child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) or local authority children's services in England.

Child protection (including protection from child sexual exploitation and safeguarding), local authority children's social care and family law

A one day course which draw upon the findings from our indepth 6 year Fathers Matter research which included examining experiences in three local authority children's social care services, including fathers who were domestically abusive.

Kooth will work alongside existing local services: the CAMHS provider, schools, GPs, voluntary services, Local Authority Children's Services, such as early help, social care and the school nursing service, as well as the Safeguarding Children Board in Barnet, adult services and voluntary organisations.

Currently, cuts in family support services and pressures on local authority Children's Services also limit the opportunities for families to work with professionals who try to understand the complexities of their lives and promote their capabilities to care effectively for their children.

We are a specialised non profit organisation supporting individuals and families being investigated or involved with their Local Authority Children's Services Department, as well as offering family support.

This will include: Guidance on local authority children's services judged inadequate, special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) inspections.

Most agencies are part of the local authority children's services (in England and Wales) or social work (in Scotland) department.

An adoption agency is either a local authority Children's Services department or a voluntary adoption agency, which is authorised to do adoption work.

If this is the case, the school staff should report their concerns to their local authority children's social care.

Following acceptance of a referral by the local authority children's social care service, a social worker should lead a multi-agency assessment under section 17 of the Children Act 1989.

Local Authority Children's Services Manager