Procedures

Quality and Purpose of Care:

• Residential Child Care - Key Principles
• Statement of Purpose
• Children’s Guide
• Children's Rights
• Equality and Diversity
• Safer Recruitment
• Information Sharing
• Case Recording
• Consents and Delegated Authority
• NICE Guideline: Looked After Children and Young People

Children’s Views, Wishes and Feelings:

• Consultation and Participation
• Providing Personalised Care
• Contact with Parents/Carers/Siblings and Others
• Social Visits (Including Overnight Stays)
• Safe Use of the Internet, Social Media and Photographs
• Social Worker Visits
• Advocacy, Independent Visitors and Independent Reviewing Officers
• Bedrooms
• Access to Records

Education:

• Education

Enjoyment and Achievement:

• Holidays and School Trips
• Transporting Children
• Leisure and Activities

Promoting Health and Wellbeing:

• Health Care Assessments and Plans - Updated
• Health and Wellbeing, Health Notifications and Access to Services
• Supporting Children and Young People with Disabilities - New
• Personal and Intimate Care
• Sexual Health and Relationships
• Blood Borne Viruses (BBVs)
• Provision and Preparation of Meals - Updated
• Drugs and Substance Misuse
• Smoking and Alcohol
• Health and Safety
• First Aid, Home Remedies and Medication - Updated
• Clothing, Pocket Money and Allowances
• Healthy Eating

Positive Relationships:

• Key Worker Guidance
• Positive Relationships and Behaviour Management
• Building Positive Relationships
• Communication
• Rewards & Consequences (Sanctions)
• Use of Restraint and Physical Interventions
• Searching Children/Bedrooms
• Countering Bullying and Peer Abuse
• Offending and Anti-Social Behaviour - Guidance on when to Involve the Police

Protection of Children:

• Safeguarding Children and Young People and Referring Safeguarding Concerns
• Relationships and Physical Contact with Children
• Recognising Abuse and Neglect
• Supporting Children who Present Harmful Sexual Behaviours
• Missing Children
• Safeguarding Children and Young People from Sexual Exploitation
• Child Criminal Exploitation and County Lines
• Identifying and Supporting Children and Young People Vulnerable to Violent Extremism including Radicalisation
• Female Genital Mutilation
• Allegations Against Staff - Updated
• Social Care Staff: Confidential Reporting Policy (Whistleblowing)
• Representations and Complaints
• Your Right to Complain
• Role of Appropriate Adults
• Self Harm and Suicidal Behaviour
• Ligature Management
• Locked Doors
• Visitors to the Home

Leadership and Management:

• Leadership Management
• Monitoring and Review
• Home Checks
• Reg 44 visits
• Reg 45 Reports
• Notification of Serious Events
• Recording and Reporting of Accidents
• Staffing and Safe Recruitment - Updated
• Staff Qualifications
• Staff Supervision and Appraisal
• Lone Working
• Staffing Levels, Rotas and Handover
• Rotas
• On Call Arrangements
• Time Off In Lieu
• Gift Giving and Receiving
• Petty Cash and Finance
• Daily Routine and House Rules
• Sleeping In and Night Security
• Responding to a Fire in the Home
• Use of CCTV
• Surveillance and Monitoring
• Dress Code for Staff
• Guidance for Agency Workers
• Providing References for Previous Employees

Care Planning:

• Placements and Admissions
• Care and Placement Planning
• Emergency Placement and Emergency Reviews
• Placement Planning Meetings
• Risk Assessment and Planning
• Looked After Reviews and Disruption Meetings
• Preparation for Leaving Care
• Moving to Another Placement