Looked After Children (LAC) Documents

Below are all the documents available for Looked After Children.

Policy, Procedures & Guidance

1. Child Restraint/Seatbelts - New Law
2. Child Car Seats/Restraints Memo
3. Contact Policy and Procedures
4. Definitions of LAC
5. Delegation of Consents
6. Drug Testing in Schools - Looked After Children Guidance
7. Guidance for the Completion of Kent Personal Educational Plans (PEPs) for Looked After Children
8. Harbourer's Warning Letter Policy and Procedure
9. How Could a Mentor Help You Flyer
10. Joint Policy Statement on the Education of Looked After Children and Young People
11. The Kent Pledge
12. Pilot Mentoring Service for Kent's Looked After Children
13. Parent and Child Procedures
14. Procedure on Users and Carers Expenses
15. Guidance Notes for Social Services Departments when Applying for a Passport on Behalf of Children in their Care
16. Looked After Children Placed with Parents Guidance and Regulations
17. Looked After Children Review Meetings and Participation of LAC Memo
18. Missing Children Protocol
19. Guidance on Missing Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
20. Memo - Missing Children
21. Memo - LAC Folders - Information Leaflets
22. Memo - Temporary Approval of Foster Carers (formerly Regulation 38)
23. Flowchart - Practice Process Missing Children
24. Notes for Parents on Payment of Parental Contributions
25. Notes for Social Workers on Parental Contributions - Children in Care
26. Managing Conflict and Encouraging Positive Behaviour
27. Permanent Fostering Procedures
28. Permanent Fostering Flowchart
29. Permanency Policy and Guidance
30. Procedure for Dealing with Concerns Regarding Foster Carers and Looked After Children Attend
31. Procedures for Transferring of Looked After Children
32. Promoting School Attendance for Looked After Children
33. Protocols for Timing of Looked After Children - Statutory Reviews
34. Emergency Housing Protocol
35. Joint Protocol - Homeless Young People Aged 16-21 in Kent
36. Relationships and Sex Education - Policy and Guidance
37. Secure Accommodation Review Panel
38. Teenage Pregnancy in Kent Factsheet
39. Transport Policy
40. Transport Appeals
41. YOS and CSS Joint Protocol
42. SCS and YOS Practice Guidance - Promoting Good Outcomes for Children and Young People 
     
43. Process for managing looked after child reviews for children also subject of child protection plans (flowchart) - April 2012
44. Guidance on co-ordinating Child Protection plans and the Looked After Children review process - December 2011
    New procedure for transferring the responsibility for care planning from the child protection conference to the looked after child review, where a child or young person subject to a child protection plan becomes looked after
45. FAQs about transferring responsibility of planning for a child’s future wellbeing from a child protection to a looked after child plan
46. Good Practice Care Plan for Permanance
47. Guidance for Managing the Process for Children who go Missing who are Involved with Specialist Children's Services - a link to the KSCB Trafficked Children Toolkit will soon be added to this document when the toolkit is launched
48. Stability Core Groups for Looked After Children
49. Kent's Looked After Children's Strategy 2011-2014
     
50. Staying Together Action Plan
51. Staying Together Protocols
52. Staying Together FAQS
53. Agenda for Staying Together - Identifying Needs and Services Meeting
54. Your Voice, Your Choice
55. Sorted and Supported
56. Translated Voice Contact Information
57. Voice Postcard 1
58. Voice Postcard 2
59. Voice Kent Advocacy Service Promotional Text
60. Statutory Guidance on Placing a Child in Care with Relatives Abroad Prior to a Possible Adoption
61. Placing a Child Currently Living in England in Foster or Residential Care in Another Contracting State
62. Care Planning Handbook
63. Disruption Meetings - Foster or Adoption Placements
64. Children in Care Reviews
65. Dispute Resolution Flowchart 
66. Criminal Injuries Compensation Procedure

Education

1. School Policy for the Education of Looked After Children
2. Virtual School Kent (VSK) - links to website and email boxes:

http://www.virtualschool.lea.kent.sch.uk/

virtual.school.kent@kent.gov.uk

VSK_Health@kent.gov.uk

Health

1. MMR Vaccine Memo
2. Medication Policy and Guidance
3. Memo - Guidance for Social Workers on Initial Health Assessments for Looked After Children
4. Guidance for Social Workers regarding Review Health Assessment Requests for LAC
5. LAC Nurses Contact Information
6. Memo on Adoption Medical Guidance
7. Letter - Routine Sight Tests for LAC 
8. Memo - Adoption Medicals
9. Guidance on Health Assessments

Relationships & Sex Education (RSE) Policy

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Practice Tools & Checklists

1. Briefing 1 - Care Planning, Placement and Case Review
2. Briefing 2 - IRO Handbook
3. Briefing 3 - Sufficiency
4. Briefing 4 - Short Breaks
5. Briefing 7 - Health Guidance
6. Briefing 8 - Education
7. Briefing 9 - Visits to Former LAC in Custody
8. National Association for Youth Justice Briefing on Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders 2012
9. Guidance for the Completion of Kent Personal Education Plans (PEPs) for LAC
10. Children Experiencing a Change in Foster Placement Checklist
11. Timescales for Visits to Looked After Children
12. Permanency Prompts
13. Planned and Unplanned Admissions to Foster Care - Social Worker Checklist
14. Change of Placement - Social Worker Checklist
15. The Use of Binbags for Luggage for Looked After Children
16. Kent Children in Care OLA Business Process
17. OLA Checklist

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Forms & Templates

1. Contact Agreement Foster Carers
2. Form C1: Application for an Order
3. Form C2: Multiple Applications
4. Form C11: Supplement for an Application for an Emergency Protection Order
5. Form C13: Supplement for an Application for a Care or Supervision Order
6. Form C14: Supplement for an Application to Refuse Contact with a Child in Care
7. Form CF15: Detailed Record of Visit to a Child Looked After
8. Form CF27: Looking After Children Care Plan
9. Form CF28: Looking After Children Review of Arrangements
10. Form CF30: Notification that Child has not been Allocated a Social Worker
11. Form CF54: Contribution Notice Letter
12. Form CF55: Closure/Transfer Summary
13. Foster Care Quality Service Award Nomination Award Form
14. Detailed Record of Child Looked After Form
15. Harbourer's Warning Letter - CHIN, CP and Non Order LAC
16. Harbourer's Warning Letter - LAC
17. Kent Mentoring Service - Referral Form
18. LAC Mentoring Information
19. LAC Notification Letter
20. Medical Administration Record MARFC01
21. Medical Administration Record MARFC01 Apprendix A
22. Placement Plan - Looking After Children
23. Placed with Parents Tracking Form (Memo)
24. Placed with Parents Tracking Form
25. SS196 - Payment For Medical Practitioner
26. Invitation for core group members to attend the first statutory LAC review which is to consider the ending of the cp plan
27. Letter to Parents where children are subject to a dual CP plan
28. Professionals Outcome letter from first Lac review ending CP plan to be sent to conference members for their information

BAAF Health Forms

1. Form PH: Report on Health of Birth Parent
2. Form M/B: Obstetric Report on Mother/Neonatal Report on Child
3. BAAF Consent Form Health Information
4. Form IHA-C: Initial Health Assessment Recommended for Children from Birth to 9 Years
5. Form IHA-YP: Initial Health Assessment Recommended for Young People 10 Years and Older
6. Form RHA-C: Review Health Assessment Recommended for Children from Birth to 9 Years
7. Form RHA-YP: Review Health Assessment Recommended for Young People 10 Years and Older

Education

1. Achievement Improvement Fund Guidance
2. Achievement Improvement Fund Admin flowchart
3. AIF Tutor Brief
4. Achievement Improvement Fund Application
5. Computer allocation for looked after children - request form

Personal Educational Plan

The documents for Early Years and KS 1 - 4 have been recently updated and are listed below:

• Early Years
• KS 1 - 4 new documents (entire documents)

The KS 5 PEPs are currently under development.

• KS5 Year 12 PEP
• KS5 Year 13 PEP

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