Permanence Planning Meeting - Record of Meeting
(June 2024 v2)

Child’s name:
Age:
LCS ID:
Legal status:

Attendees

Name	Role
Team manager
Allocated social worker
Foster carers (where appropriate)
Parents (where appropriate)
Guardian (where appropriate)
Kinship team manager (where appropriate)
Fostering team manager (where appropriate)
Adopt West (where appropriate)
Strengthening Families (where appropriate)

Apologies

Name	Role

Reports received

Name	Report

Siblings:
Date Became Child in Care:
Date Care Proceedings Issued:
Date of Family Network Meeting and proposed timeframe for review.

Brief background information (including what is working well and any worries)

Realistic permanency options

Wishes and feelings of significant others

Include views of all significant others, including a rationale for anyone that has not been included.

Views of the child’s social worker and manager

Proposed permanence plan

Consider what legal orders may be required to best secure the permanency being proposed. Ie. Care Order; Placement Order; Child Arrangements Order; Special Guardianship Order. Also what family time arrangements. Is the plan achievable in child’s timescales?

Contingency/parallel plan (see appendix 1 of guidance)

What needs to happen to ensure we avoid drift / delay should the proposed plan not be achieved?

Anything else discussed at this meeting

Actions agreed (and reviewed at subsequent meetings)

What	By whom	By when	Update on action
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