PLEASE NOTE: New Standards Published

April 2011: The Standards no longer apply, Tri.x have published a web enabled version of the new Children’s Homes and Fostering Standards, please follow this link:

www.minimumstandards.org

4. Care and Control	Size:
Relationship with Children

	OUTCOME Children enjoy sound relationships with staff based on honesty and mutual respect.
	STANDARD 21
21.1	Relationships between staff and children are based on mutual respect and understanding and clear professional and personal boundaries which are effective for both the individuals and the group.
21.2	Staff employed at the home are able to set and maintain safe, consistent and understandable boundaries for the children in relation to acceptable behaviour.
21.3	Expectations of behaviour for both staff and children are clearly understood and negotiated by those living and working at the home, including exercising appropriate control over children in the interests of their own welfare and the protection of others.
21.4	In day to day decision making, staff demonstrate an appropriate balance between:
	each child’s wishes and preferences the needs of individual children the needs of the group of children resident at the time the protection of others (including the public) from harm.
21.5	All staff receive training in positive care and control of children, and communication between staff and children is generally positive with disagreements between staff and children dealt with reasonably.
21.6	Children in the home are looked after without favouritism or antipathy towards any individual or group within the home.
21.7	The deployment of staff in the home facilitates continuity of staff providing care to individual children. Where children require personal care, their choices of which staff provide that care are maximised. [Regulation 17]