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6.3 What's New

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Amended March 2012

The Calderdale Children's Social Care Manual was last fully updated in September 2011, the next planned update is April 2012.

However, it may be necessary to issue interim amendments, briefings or new policies and procedures before the next planned update.

Any interim documents will be published on a monthly basis - by the end of the first week each month - and listed below.


March 2012

Policy Briefing No 58: Ofsted Inspections of Children's Homes

Policy Briefing No 57: Ofsted Inspections of Local Authority Fostering Services and Independent Fostering Agencies

Policy Briefing No 56: Ofsted Inspections of Local Authority and Voluntary Adoption Agencies

Policy Briefing No 55: Measuring Performance in Child Protection - A Change of Focus

Policy Briefing No 54: The Government's Adoption Action Plan for Tackling Delay

 

FEBRUARY 2012

Policy Briefing No.53: Government Response to Family Justice Review

Policy Briefing No 52: Information Sharing between the UK Border Agency and Local Authorities

Policy Briefing No 51: Framework for the Inspection of Local Authority Arrangements for the Protection of Children

No briefings were published in January

 

DECEMBER 2011

Policy Briefing No 50: Case Law: Entitlement of Grandparent to Fostering Allowance

Policy Briefing No 49: Review of Care Planning & National Minimum Standards

Practice Guide No 16: Participation of Children and Young People in Service Development

Practice Guide No 15: Safeguarding Children and Young People at Licensed Premises

 

NOVEMBER 2011

Policy Briefing No 48: What does Munro mean for you?

Policy Briefing No 47: Family Justice Review - Final Report

Policy Briefing No 46: A Study of Recommendations Arising from Serious Case Reviews 2009-2010

Policy Briefing No 45: Ages of concern: learning lessons from serious case reviews: Ofsted's evaluation of serious case reviews from 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2011

Policy Briefing No 44: Children looked after in England (including adoption and care leavers) year ending 31 March 2011

Policy Briefing No 43: The Prone Restraint: a dangerous practice

Policy Briefing No 42: Ending Gang & Youth Violence: What's going on in your area?

Policy Briefing No 41: Tackling Sexual Exploitation in England: The Response of Local Safeguarding Children Boards and Food for Thought for Partner Agencies

Policy Briefing No 40: Ofsted Report - Good Practice by Local Safeguarding Children Boards

Practice Guide No 14: Significant Incident Learning Process (SILP)

 

OCTOBER 2011

Policy Briefing No 39: Agency Workers Regulations 2010

Policy Briefing No 38: Best Practice in Schools and Children's Homes

Practice Guide No 13: When to Seize a Mobile....

Practice Guide No 12: A Family and Friends Practice Guide

Practice Guide No 11: What is Adult Abuse and who is an Adult at Risk?

 

SEPTEMBER 2011

There are no Policy Briefings for August 2011 and Policy Briefings 35 & 36 are not relevant to Children’s Services.

Also, this Manual was updated September 2011.

Click here to view summary of changes to the Manual

Policy Briefing No 37: Make Runaways Safe: Launch Report published by the Children’s Society 12 July 2011

 

JULY 2011

News Flash: On 13th July, the Government published its response to the 'Munro Review'. By early August, in the next week, we will publish a Policy Briefing summarising the implications of the Government response (click here to view the Government response).

Policy Briefing  No 34: Messages from Munro - a report on Children's views

Policy Briefing No 33: Department for Education Advice on Health and Safety for Schools, including School Trips

Policy Briefing No 32: Department for Education Advice on Health and Safety for Schools, including School Trips

Practice Guide No 4: Therapeutic Communities - best practice with troubled and troubling children and young people

Practice Guide 3: Attachment - What is it and why does it matter?

 

JUNE 2011

Children and Young People's First Response Team Duty Guidance

 

MAY 2011

Policy Briefing No 26: Visits to Children in Long Term Residential Care Regulations 2011

Policy Briefing No 27: Family Justice Review Interim Report

Policy Briefing No 28: Multi-Agency Statutory Guidance for the Conduct of Domestic Homicide Reviews

Practice Guide No 1: Challenging Behaviour: Themes emerging from Children's Homes Standards and Education Bill

Practice Guide No 2: Searching and Confiscation: Clashes of Culture and Expectations in Schools and Care Settings

 

APRIL 2011

The following Quick Reference Guide outlines the key changes emanating from new or amended Regulations which came into force April 2011:

Practice Guide (Care Planning, Care Leavers, Fostering, Adoption and Children's Homes)

The following are Policy Briefings that may be of interest to managers/practitioners:

Policy Briefing No 23: Family and Friends Care Statutory Guidance

Policy Briefing No 22: Support and Aspiration: A New Approach to Special Educational Needs and Disability

Policy Briefing No 19: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Looked After Children

Policy Briefing No 18: Female Genital Mutilation - new Multi-Agency Guidelines

Policy Briefing No 17: The Autism Strategy


MARCH 2011

Policy Briefing 10: The Education Bill

Policy Briefing 11: The Munro Review Interim Report ‘The Child’s Journey’

Policy Briefing 12: Review of the Vetting and Barring Scheme

Policy Briefing 13: Amended Regulations and NMS for Fostering

Policy Briefing 14: Revised Adoption Guidance


JANUARY 2011

Calderdale decision making hierarchy

Policy Briefing 5: Plans for integrating new Regulations into this Manual

Policy Briefing 16: Children's Homes regulations, guidance and national minimum standards

Policy Briefing 7: Green Paper 'Breaking the Cycle'


DECEMBER 2010

Policy Briefing 1: Various new Regulations are issued

Policy Briefing 2: The Care Planning Regulations

Policy Briefing 3: The Munro Review

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