Parental Responsibility
Guidance on ‘Who has Parental Responsibility’ Author: Dr Nadya James (nadya.james@nhs.net): Consultant Community Paediatrician, Designated Doctor, MA for Adoption, EMCYPSAS, Nottingham Children’s Hospital.
Guidance
Somerset’s Graduated Response Tool
Somerset’s Graduated Response Tool sets out the barriers to learning that children and young people may have and the strategies and provisions that could be in place to support them. Somerset’s Graduated Response Tool has been created to support all users to understand the Graduated Response to Special Educational Needs in the context of current
SSCP Structure Chart
Structure chart outlining partnership governance – reporting relationships and decision-making. Version: June 2024
Multi-Agency Step Up, Step Down Protocol
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Resolving Professional Differences Protocol
Updated March 2023
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Strategy Discussions – Practice Guidance
Whenever there is reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering or is likely to suffer significant harm there should be a strategy discussion involving local authority children’s social care (including the residential or fostering service, if the child is looked-after), the police, health and other involved agencies such as the referring agency.
Family Strengths and Needs Toolkit – Practitioner Guidance
Practitioner guidance for identifying and supporting concerns around neglect.
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Family Strengths and Needs Toolkit
A toolkit to assist with the identification of neglect of a child or young person To complement the Southwest Child Protection Procedures (SWCCP), the Family Strengths and Needs Toolkit has been designed to assist professionals in identifying and assessing children and young people who are at risk of and experiencing neglect. The Toolkit should be used in
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