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143 Monitoring and Supervision of Adoptive Placements
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156 : Milton Keynes is part of a regional adoption agency please see
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158 Arrangements for and frequency of visits for supervising the placement must be made at Placement
Planning Meetings and set out in the Adoption Placement Plan - see
158 <a href="p_place_adop.html#the_placement">
158 Placement for Adoption Procedure, The Placement
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159 This will involve at a minimum:
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161 The child's social worker visiting the child within the first week of the placement and then
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162 or, if not specified, every six weeks for the first year and after this, on a three-monthly
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164 Where there are any concerns, additional visits should be arranged.
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165 Adoption Placement Plan
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165 - and more frequently if circumstances require. The visits should continue until an Adoption Order
has been made or until the placement is terminated.
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166 Visits must be made by suitably experienced qualified social workers or social workers/student
social workers who are supervised by suitably qualified and experienced social workers.
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167 Records of all visits must be made and copies placed on the child's
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167 Adoption Case Record
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167 . Between visits, the social workers involved must discuss progress in the placement and read each
other's recording of visits during the monitoring period.
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168 Where there are concerns that the placement is at risk of breaking down, a review meeting must be
convened immediately by the child's social worker - see
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168 Adoption Reviews Procedure
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168 .
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169 The child should be seen alone (if appropriate according to his or her age and understanding) at
all of the visits, whether undertaken by the child's social worker or the adopters' link worker,
and his or her wishes and feelings recorded.
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170 The child's social worker will arrange for the child to continue to have health assessments in
line with his or her
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170 Health Care Plan
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170 and that the Health Care Plan continues to be reviewed up to the Adoption Order in accordance with
the procedures for Looked After Children.
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171 The procedures to be followed where a placement disrupts are set out in
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171 Disruption of Adoptive Placements Procedure
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171 .
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172 Visits to the child and adopters after the Adoption Order will be made as and when required under
the Adoption Support Plan - see
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172 Adoption Support Procedure
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172 .
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