Protecting 'Looked After' Children guidance

Protecting 'Looked After' Children guidance - Department of Health NI

This paper has been developed to provide guidance on protecting and safeguarding children who are 'Looked After'. The needs of the child or ...

Looked after children | NSPCC Learning

Types of care. Each UK nation has a slightly different definition of a looked after child and follows its own legislation, policy and guidance.

Understanding Looked-After Children | SSS Learning

Recognising and understanding these safeguarding implications is essential for creating a nurturing and stable environment that prioritises the ...

Statutory Guidance on Promoting the Health and Well-being of ...

There should also be an emphasis on protecting looked after children from second-hand smoke and providing an environment they can grow up in where smoking ...

Looked After Children - Child Protection Guidelines

Where looked after children are also subject to a child protection review conference, the two systems must be fully integrated. This means that a review of ...

Looked After Children (LAC) – resources and guidance

More than 93,000 children in the UK are in care, 70,000 in England. Most are taken into care over fears of abuse or neglect. They are vulnerable to health ...

Looked-after children and young people - NCBI Bookshelf

Balance them against safeguarding considerations and the risk of repeating trauma. 1.2.8. Provide contact supervisors for contact with birth ...

Guidance on Safeguarding Looked After Children (LAC)

'Looked after child' refers to any child up to the age of 18 that has been in the care of their Local Authority for more than 24 hours.

Children's Services Directorate Practice Guidance regarding the role ...

Children and their parents have a right to have support at Child Protection Case Conferences, Looked. After Children Reviews and Family Support Planning ...

Looked after children - NHS Cheshire and Merseyside

A child is 'Looked After' if they are in the care of the Local Authority for more than 24 hours. 'Looked After Children' fall into four main groups.

Education for looked after children - childlawadvice.org.uk

The Children Act 1989 places a legal duty on Local authorities to safeguard and promote the welfare of looked after children. This duty extends to promoting ...

Safeguarding looked after children (children in care (CiC))

Guidance for the designated teacher responsible for looked after children in schools. Under the Children and Young Persons Act 2008, from 2009 the governing ...

Guidance in relation to the Child Protection Register and Children ...

The Cwm Taf Safeguarding Board (CTSB) accepts that the majority of children and young people who are looked after by the Local Authority, away.

Promoting the education of looked- after children and previously ...

For the purpose of this guidance, the officer/s referred to above is hereafter referred to as the Virtual School Head or VSH. This guidance replaces Promoting ...

Looked after children - Department of Health NI

A child is looked after by an authority if he or she is in their care or if he or she is provided with accommodation for a continuous period of more than 24 ...

Securing sufficient accommodation for looked-after children - GOV.UK

commissioners in: ... It sets out the approach that local authorities should take to make sure that looked-after children under their care have ...

Children in Care and Previously Looked after children

Children and young people may not be in the care of their parents for a variety of different reasons. Most known arrangements are often as a result of ...

Young people leaving care - Looked after children - gov.scot

Aftercare refers to the advice, guidance, and assistance provided to care leavers. This can include (but is not restricted to) securing accommodation, education ...

Safeguarding children and child protection - NSPCC Learning

All organisations that work with or come into contact with children should have safeguarding policies and procedures in place to help them keep children safe.

Local authorities' duties in relation to looked after children

This care plan must be agreed upon with any parent with parental responsibility, or any person the child was living with before they were accommodated, and the ...