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• Policies & Procedures
  • Procedures Manual
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Underlying Policy, Principles and Values
  • 1.3 Recognition of Significant Harm
  • 1.4 Family Support Process and Forms (Previously Common Assessment Framework)
  • 1.5 Assessment Framework
  • 1.6 Statutory Framework (Appendix B – Working Together 2015)
  • 1.7 Information Sharing and Confidentiality
  • 1.8 Norfolk Thresholds
  • 2.1 Local Safeguarding Children Board – Role and Function
  • 2.2 Agency Roles and Responsibilities
  • 2.3 Voluntary Agencies and Sports, Cultural and Recreational Activities
  • 3.1 Referrals
  • 3.2 Barnardo’s / NCC Edge of Care service: New Directions
  • 3.3 Norfolk Local Assessment Protocol
  • 3.4 Strategy Discussions
  • 3.5 Child Protection Enquiries – Section 47 Children Act 1989
  • 3.6 Initial Child Protection Conferences
  • 3.7 Recording that a Child is the Subject of a Child Protection Plan
  • 3.8 Transfer in Child Protection Conferences
  • 3.9 Implementation of the Child Protection Plan – Lead Social Worker and Core Group Responsibilities
  • 3.10 Child Protection Review Conferences
  • 3.11 Video Interviews and Achieving Best Evidence
  • 3.12 Protocol for undertaking joint visits and assessments by Social Workers, Health Visitors and Midwives, for children under 5
  • 3.13 Medical Examinations
  • 3.14 Managing Concerns about Children and Young People (C&YP) where there are Medical and/or Complex Health issues and Escalating Safeguarding Concerns
  • 4.1 Flowchart 1: Action taken when a child is referred to local authority children’s social care services
  • 4.2 Flowchart 2: Immediate protection
  • 4.3 Flowchart 3: Action taken for an assessment of a child under the Children Act 1989
  • 4.4 Flowchart 4: Action following a strategy discussion
  • 4.5 Flowchart 5: What happens after the child protection conference, including the review?
  • 4.6 Flowchart 6: Children returning home from care to their families
  • 5.1 Abuse by Children and Young People who Display Sexually Harmful Behaviour
  • 5.2 Abuse Linked to Spiritual and Religious Beliefs
  • 5.3 Abuse of Disabled Children
  • 5.4 Intimate Care Good Practice Guidelines
  • 5.5 Allegations of Harm Arising from Under Age Sexual Activity
  • 5.6 Bullying
  • 5.7 Child Abuse and Information Communication Technology
  • 5.8 Safeguarding Children and Young People from Child Sexual Exploitation: Policy, Procedures and Guidance
  • 5.9 Complex (Organised or Multiple) Abuse
  • 5.10 Fabricated or Induced Illness
  • 5.11 Children and Young People who Misuse Substances
  • 5.12 Children from Abroad (including Migrant Children and Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
  • 5.13 Children Living Away from Home (including Children and Families living in Temporary Accommodation)
  • 5.14 Female Genital Mutilation
  • 5.15 Forced Marriages and Honour Based Violence
  • 5.16 Harm to Animals and Possible Implications for Children (IA Issues)
  • 5.17 Safeguarding the Welfare of Norfolk Children and Young People in police custody and the secure estate
  • 5.18 Pre-Birth Protocol
  • 5.19 Guidance On Safeguarding Individuals Vulnerable To Radicalisation
  • 5.20 Safeguarding Children and Young People Who May be Affected by Gang Activity
  • 5.21 Self Harm
  • 5.22 Children at risk of suicide
  • 5.23 Neglect
  • 5.24 Safeguarding Response to Obesity when Neglect is an Issue
  • 5.25 Practice Guidance for the Effective Safeguarding of Children from Minority Ethnic, Cultural and Faith Communities, Groups and Families
  • 5.26 Cross Border Child Protection Cases
  • 6.1 Children Missing From Care and From Home
  • 6.2 Children Missing from Education
  • 6.3 Safeguarding Children and Young People who may have been Trafficked
  • 6.4 Families who go Missing Where Safeguarding Concerns Exist
  • 6.5 Children and Families Moving Across Boundaries
  • 6.6 Safeguarding Foreign National Children Who Go Missing
  • 7.1 Children At Risk Where A Parent/Carer Has a Learning Disability
  • 7.2 Children At Risk Where A Parent Has A Mental Health Problem
  • 7.3 Children of Parents who Misuse Substances
  • 7.4 Domestic Violence and Abuse
  • 7.5 Reluctant and Hostile Families
  • 8.1 Safer Recruitment Guidance
  • 8.2 Safer Working Practice, Supervision and Culture
  • 8.3 Allegations Against Persons who Work/Volunteer with Children
  • 9.1 Risks Posed by People with Convictions Against Children
  • 9.2 Guidance On Offences Against Children
  • 9.3 Children’s Visits to Special Hospitals/Psychiatric Units – Relevant Government Orders and Circulars
  • 10.1 Complaints and Appeals
  • 10.2 Resolving Professional Disagreements
  • 10.3 Raising Concerns At Work: Whistleblowing Guidance for Workers and Employers in Health and Social Care
  • 11.1 Managing Child Deaths
  • 11.2 Reviewing All Childhood Deaths
  • 12.1 Learning and Improvement (Including Serious Case Reviews)